OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 44512

spray

/spɹeɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aerosol • difusión • esprey • spray
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
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 sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
aerosol • espray • esprey • spray
A pressurized container; an atomizer.
bote de spray • espray • esprey • spray
Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
ramito
A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
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