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# spray

«spray» in Mova's school dictionary: **many tiny drops of liquid flying through the air, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spray, a spray, sprays); verb (spray, sprays, sprayed, spraying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spray is many tiny drops of liquid flying through the air, like sea spray from waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#m1)

2) A spray is a can or bottle that pushes out a liquid in tiny drops, such as hair spray or bug spray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#m2)

3) To spray is to send out liquid in tiny drops, or to cover something that way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#m3)

4) A spray of flowers is a small bunch of them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, a spray breaks a liquid into droplets so it spreads over a bigger surface. In safety: cleaning sprays, insect sprays and paint sprays can be harmful; never spray them in eyes or near a flame and use them only with an adult. In nature, skunks spray a bad smell to protect themselves. Phrases: spray paint, sunscreen spray, nasal spray, spray bottle.

### examples

- The waves sent salty spray over the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x1)
- Spray some water on the plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x2)
- Mum used bug spray before the camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x3)
- A skunk can spray a terrible smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x4)
- The firefighters sprayed water on the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x5)
- Do not spray cleaner near your face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x6)
- I put on sunscreen spray at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x7)
- He gave her a spray of roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x8)
- Splash! splash! the water leaped upward into spray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/#x9)

### note

Spray as droplets is often uncountable (sea spray); a spray (the product or bunch) is countable. Spray cans are under pressure: never put them near heat or fire, they can explode.

### In the corpora

- [In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/12/)
- [The bombardier beetle mixes two chemicals in its body to make a spray of about 100 degrees that it shoots from its tail end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/11/)
- [Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/12/)
- [No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/5/)
- [When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spray» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spray/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.