spray
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
Example
“The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
Other meanings
Something resembling a spray of liquid.
A pressurized container; an atomizer.
A kind of
- pesticide
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle Dutch "spraien" (sprāien).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “spray” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.