spray

UK /spɹeɪ/ US /spɹeɪ/
noun 10verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut. The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.

2

Something resembling a spray of liquid.

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

3

A pressurized container; an atomizer.

4

Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.

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.

verb

1

To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.

The firemen sprayed the house.

Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.

2

To project in a dispersive manner.

Spray some ointment on that scratch.

The water sprayed out of the hose.

3

To project many small items dispersively.

The sprawl of sheds like Magna Parks 1 to 3 are a particularly vivid measure, because they host the final moment of relative stasis for millions of products that are then sprayed out to homes in every direction.

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

4

To urinate in order to mark territory.

5

To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.

to spray the heap of a target process

This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

noun

1

A small branch of flowers or berries.

The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy ſpray / Warbleſt at eve, when all the woods are ſtill, / Thou with freſh hope the lover’s heart doſt fill, / While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

2

A collective body of small branches.

The tree has a beautiful spray.

A blisful flour, owt of this spray schal springe ; / The fruyt þer-of schal be ful precïous ; / A causë haue [we] for to ioye & synge, / In honure of þat maidë gracïous, / That gret comfort schal cause[n] vnto vs ; / ffor now schal faste oure company encrees, / And god with man schal makë smallë pees.

3

Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.

Gret fur he made þer aniȝt of wode & of sprai.

Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say

4

An orchard.

5

An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

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