spray

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a quantity of small objects flying through the air

   a spray of bullets

2. 2
   noun

   a pesticide in suspension or solution

   intended for spraying

3. 3
   verb

   scatter in a mass or jet of droplets

   spray water on someone

4. 4
   verb

   cover by spraying with a liquid

   spray the wall with paint

5. 5
   verb

   be discharged in sprays of liquid

   Water sprayed all over the floor

6. 6
   noun

   A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

   The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

7. 7
   noun

   Something resembling a spray of liquid.

   Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

   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.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“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”).