spraying

Verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

1. (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
   • The firemen sprayed the house.
2. (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.
   • Spray some ointment on that scratch.
3. (figuratively, transitive) 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.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
4. (intransitive) To urinate in order to mark territory.
5. (transitive, computer security) 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
6. (transitive) To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.
   • Kevin McLeod sprayed the ball across from the left flank where a raging Ainsworth met it on the volley from 25 yards out, crashing the ball into the roof of the net.2012 February 1, Ash Rose, The QPR Miscellany, The History Press, →ISBN

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