different between volley vs spray

English

Etymology

From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

volley (plural volleys)

1. The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
2. A burst or emission of many things at once.

   • When we do speak at volley
3. (sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces.
4. (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
5. (cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.

Translations

Verb

volley (third-person singular simple present volleys, present participle volleying, simple past and past participle volleyed)

1. (transitive) To fire a volley of shots
2. (sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
3. (intransitive) To be fired in a volley
4. (sports, intransitive) To make a volley
5. To sound together

Translations

Derived terms

• half volley
• scorpion volley
• volleyball

Anagrams

• Lovely, lovely

French

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.l?/

Noun

volley m (uncountable)

1. (sports, colloquial) volleyball

Synonyms

• volley-ball, volleyball

Further reading

• “volley” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

volley m (invariable)

1. volleyball

   Synonym: pallavolo

Derived terms

• vollistico

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.

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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.