spray

/spɹeɪ/

noun

1
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
“The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
2
A pressurized container; an atomizer.
3
Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
4
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.
5
A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
6
A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
7
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.

1
To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
“The firemen sprayed the house.”
2
To project in a dispersive manner.
“Spray some ointment on that scratch.”
3
To project many small items dispersively.
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”

1
A small branch of flowers or berries.
“The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.”
2
A collective body of small branches.
“The tree has a beautiful spray.”
3
Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
4
An orchard.
5
An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

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