different between dab vs spray

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Comparable with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”).

The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub.

African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”).

Verb

dab (third-person singular simple present dabs, present participle dabbing, simple past and past participle dabbed)

1. (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

2. (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.

3. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
   • 1532-1533, Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

     to dabbe him in the necke

4. (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
5. (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
   • 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop

     Look, my brothas don't dab, we just vossi bop

Translations

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
2. (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.

   Coordinate terms: dap, fist bump, high five

   • page 197: I step closer to Profit and draw in a deep, steadying breath while the brothers exchange dabs. “What's up, fam? I see you finally made it.”

3. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.

   Synonym: blob

   1. (slang) A small amount of hash oil.
4. (chiefly in the plural, dated, Britain) Fingerprint.
5. (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.

Related terms

• dap
• dob
• tap

Translations

Adverb

dab (not comparable)

1. With a dab, or sudden contact.

Translations

See also

• daub

Etymology 2

Perhaps corrupted from adept.

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person

   • c. 1759-1770?, Oliver Goldsmith, Essay

     One excels at a plan or the title page, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.

Derived terms

• dab hand
• dabster

Translations

Etymology 3

Late Middle English dabbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to sense 1 (“to press against lightly”) as in "a soft mass dabbed down."

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
2. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.

Translations

Etymology 4

Back slang for bad.

Adjective

dab (comparative more dab, superlative most dab)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) Bad.

   Synonym: trosseno

   Antonyms: doog, doogheno

References

Further reading

• dab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dab (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
• dab at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ABD, ADB, Abd., BDA, D.B.A., DBA, abd., bad, d/b/a, dba

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Hyphenation: dab
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

dab m (uncountable)

1. (dance) The dab (hip-hop dance move).

Related terms

• dabben

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???? (??b). The expected form would be dieb, which exists dialectally. The imala was irregularly inverted as in some other verbs with -u- in the imperfect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?p/

Verb

dab (imperfect jdub)

1. (intransitive) to melt (become liquid, especially through warmth)

Derived terms

• dewweb

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/

Noun

dab

1. (evil) spirit, considered responsible for epileptic attacks among other things

Derived terms

• qaug dab peg

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

Yola

Alternative forms

• dap

Etymology

From Middle English dabben.

Verb

dab

1. dash, slap

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”). Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

Noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

   The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

2. (countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
3. (countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
4. (medicine, countable) 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. (metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
6. (metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

7. (computing, countable) 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.
   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

     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.

8. (Australia) A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
   • 2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, Macmillan Publishers Aus. (?ISBN), page 119:

     On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.

   • 2008, Kevin Hillier, Rocket Science: The Biography of Rodney Eade, Macmillan Publishers Aus. (?ISBN), page 151:

     Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have. It certainly worked for me, I would get really aggressive and get fired up 'cause it's a motivational device they used.

   • 2018, Paul Amy, Fabulous Fred: The Strife and Times of Fred Cook, Melbourne Books (?ISBN)

     He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says. 'He'd be frothing at the mouth after he'd finished.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

2. (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To project many small items dispersively.
4. (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory.
5. (transitive, computing, 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

   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

     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.

Derived terms

• say it, don't spray it
• sprayable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English spray, from Old English *spræg, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.

Noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

1. (countable) A small branch of flowers or berries.

   The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.
2. (countable) A collective body of small branches.

   The tree has a beautiful spray.

   • c. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. Book VII, Canto VII:

     And from the Trees did lop the needless Spray;

3. (uncountable) Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
4. (countable, obsolete) An orchard.
5. (countable) An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

Anagrams

• Prays, Sarpy, prays, raspy, spary

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spre?/
• Hyphenation: spray

Noun

spray m (plural sprays)

1. spray (liquid commercial product sold in a spray container)

Derived terms

• haarspray
• verfspray

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sprei?/, [?s?pre?i?]
• Syllabification: spray

Noun

spray

1. spray (device for spraying)

Declension

Usage notes

• Many of the inflected forms, especially the plurals, are somewhat awkward. Therefore, it may be advisable to use appropriate synonyms for these cases, such as spraypullo, spraytölkki, suihke, suihkepullo.

Synonyms

• suihke
• suihkepullo

Derived terms

• spreijata

Compounds

• spraydeodorantti
• spraymaalata
• spraymaali
• spraypullo
• spraytölkki

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• spré, szpré

Etymology

From English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spre?], [?spre?j], [??pre?], [??pre?j]
• Hyphenation: spray
• Rhymes: -re?, -e?j

Noun

spray (plural spray-k)

1. spray (commercial product dispensed from a container)

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spraye

Etymology

From Old English *spræg, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.

Noun

spray (plural sprayes)

1. branch, shoot, or twig of a tree

Descendants

• English: spray
• Yola: spraay

References

• “sprai, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English spray

Noun

spray m (definite singular sprayen, indefinite plural sprayer, definite plural sprayene)

1. spray

Derived terms

• hårspray
• nesespray
• sprayboks
• spraymaling

Related terms

• spraye

Etymology 2

Verb

spray

1. imperative of spraye

References

• “spray” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English spray

Noun

spray m (definite singular sprayen, indefinite plural sprayar, definite plural sprayane)

1. spray

Derived terms

• hårspray
• sprayboks

Related terms

• spraye

References

• “spray” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English spray, from Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spr?j/

Noun

spray m inan

1. aerosol spray (liquid commercial product sold in a spray container)

Declension

Further reading

• spray in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• spray in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English spray, from Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”)

Noun

spray m (plural sprays)

1. spray; atomizer (pressurised container with a nozzle that lets out a spray)

   Synonyms: borrifador, atomizador, esprei, aerossol, pulverizador

2. spray (fine, gentle, disperse mist of liquid)

   Synonyms: borrifo, esprei

Romanian

Etymology

From English spray.

Noun

spray n (plural sprayuri)

1. spray

Declension

Spanish

Noun

spray m (plural sprays or spray)

1. Alternative form of espray

Further reading

• “spray” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.