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spray

/spɹeɪ/ sustantivo B2

En español: spray, aerosol, difusión, esprey

  1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. (countable, uncountable) · The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
  2. Something resembling a spray of liquid. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)
  3. A pressurized container; an atomizer. (countable)
  4. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. (countable)
  5. A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer. (countable)
  6. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold. (countable)
  7. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. (countable)
  8. The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit. (countable)

Plural sprays

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The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 12 · C1
There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 65 · B2
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 83 · C1
There’s a piece of a plate with a spray of red and yellow ivy on it that is especially beautiful.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 90 · C1

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