Sprayer

Definition: Sprayer

Sprayer

Noun

1. A worker who applies spray to a surface.

2. A dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

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Occupations

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Synonyms: Sprayer

Crosswords: Sprayer

Consumer Goods

• Delta Faucet N2476-22CW Two Handle Kitchen Faucet with Sprayer (reference)

• Fuji Industrial Spray Equipment HVLP Super High Volume Low Pressure Sprayer (reference)

• Misto Gourmet Brushed Aluminum Olive Oil Sprayer (reference)

• Misto Gourmet Stainless Steel Olive Oil Sprayer, Black Band (reference)

• Gilmour 2000P 2-Gallon Polyethylene Premium Compression Sprayer (reference)

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Here a field worker runs a power sprayer on a truck as it emits an insecticide. Credit: CDC.

In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States, such as spraying for mosquitos using a hand-held compressed air sprayer. Credit: CDC.

A farmer washes his sprayer after application of herbicide. The farmer is careful to ware complete protection while working with the chemicals. Credit: Tim McCabe.

This farmer uses a stop watch to calibrate his sprayer prior to applying herbicide. Credit: Tim McCabe.

This new nozzleless sprayer uses one-half to two-thirds less spray to achieve superior coverage and penetration of the tree canopy. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Rob Flynn..

[Insecticide sprayer mounted on the back of a truck] / Oregon State Board of Health. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loading plant, artillery shells soon to batter the Axis are sprayed with olive drab paint. This women is a sprayer, but women also do the "puddling" of TNT in shells better than men. For ". Credit: Library of Congress.

Motor-driven sprayer machine used on large farms to feed beans through leaves and kill white fly. Around Lake Okeechobee, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

A.G. Spaulding & Son, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts. Sprayer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "sprayer": hand sprayer ♦ liquid sprayer ♦ paint sprayer ♦ powder sprayer ♦ rotary sprayer. Additional references.

Ending with "sprayer": crop-sprayer, paint-sprayer.

Albanian

sprucues, spërkatës (splasher, sprinkler), aparat për spërkatje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرذة, ‏طائرة الرش, ‏رزاز (surf), ‏بخاخ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пулверизатор (atomizer, gun, pulverizer, spray, vaporizer), пръскачка (atomizer, spray), дюза (burner, jet, nipple, nozzle, orifice). (various references)

Chinese 

喷雾器. (various references)

Czech

rozprašovaè (atomizer, sparger, spray), postřikovaè (sprinkler). (various references)

Danish

forstoevningsanordning (nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, vaporiser), forstøver (atomiser, atomizer, burner, croupaire, distributor, injector, nebulizer). (various references)

Dutch

verstuiver (air blow-out, atomiser, atomizer, burner, carburator, carburetor, carburettor, distributor, injector, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, spray nozzle, vaporiser, vaporizer, vaporizing burner). (various references)

Farsi 

گردپاش (Spray), سم پاش . (various references)

Finnish

sumutin (air gun, air jet, atomiser), suihkutin (atomiser). (various references)

French

pulvérisateur (spray), atomiseur (spray dispenser). (various references)

German

Zerstäuber (atomizer, spray, vaporizer, vaporizers). (various references)

Greek 

ραντιστήσ (squirter), συσκευή ψεκασμού (atomizer, distributor), νεφελοποιητής (nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, vaporiser), ψεκαστική αντλία (nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, vaporiser), ψεκαστήρασ (atomizer, sprinkler), ψεκαστήρας (atomiser, atomizer, distributor, inhalator, inhaler, sprinkler), ψεκαστήρ (atomizer, spray). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזלף (dropper, pipette, sprinkler, watering can), מרסס (aerosol, atomizer, diffuser, injector, pulverizer, spray). (various references)

Hungarian

porlasztó (atomizer, carburetor, carburetter, carburettor, diffuser, nose, pulverizer, vaporizer), permetezõ. (various references)

Indonesian

penyemprot, pengabut (atomizer, carburetor). (various references)

Italian

spruzzatore (spray, sprinkler), polverizzatore (atomiser, atomizer, distributor, grinder, mill, oil burner, spray), nebulizzatore (atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer), lancia (dinghy, harpoon, jolly boat, lance, launch, lifeboat, nozzle, ship's boat, spear), innaffiatrice (sprinkler). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

噴霧器 (atomizer, vaporizer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふ�"むき (atomizer, vaporizer). (various references)

Korean 

스�"�� �이어. (various references)

Manx

spreihder (spray, sprinkler). (various references)

Pig Latin

ayerspray

Portuguese

pulverizador (atomizer, blower, jet, pulverizer, spray, vaporizer). (various references)

Romanian

vaporizator, pulverizator (air gun, atomizer, pulverizer, spray), atomizator (atomizer). (various references)

Russian 

распылитель (atomizer, nebulizer, pulverizer), пульверизатор (air gun, atomizer, pulverizer, spray, spray gun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaprašivač, prskalica (rose, sparger, sprinkler), prskač (splasher). (various references)

Spanish

pulverizador (aerosol, atomizer, nuance, perfume atomizer, pulverizer, spray, spray can). (various references)

Swedish

sprutare, spruta (injection, jab, shot, spout, spray, spurt, stream, syringe). (various references)

Thai

เครื่องพ่น. (various references)

Turkish

sprey (spray), püskürtücü (atomizer, injector, repellent, repelling, spray, spreader, sprinkler). (various references)

Turkmen 

suwulзu. (various references)

Ukrainian

розпилювач (airbrush, blow-gun, diffuser, duster, nebulizer, pulverizer), форсунка (burner, injector, jet, nozzle, pulverizer, spray burner), пульверизатор (airbrush, atomizer, pulverizer, sprinkler, vaporizer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người phun bình phun, bình bơm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sprayer": sprayers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sprayer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: splayer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: prayers, respray.

-1 letter: parers, parser, payers, prayer, pryers, rapers, rasper, repays, sparer, sparry, spryer.

-2 letters: apers, apery, apres, asper, eyras, parer, pares, parrs, parry, parse, payer, pears, perry, prase, prays, presa, preys, pryer, pyres, raper, rapes, rares, raser, raspy, reaps, rears, repay, resay, sayer, serry, spare, spear, spray, yarer, years.

-3 letters: aery, aper, apes, apse, ares.

+1 letter: partyers, resprays, spermary, sprayers.

+2 letters: parleyers, pyorrheas, raspberry, resprayed, soapberry.

+3 letters: paralyzers, portrayers, presidiary, ratepayers, respraying, serigraphy, skyscraper.

+4 letters: cardplayers, chrysoprase, copyreaders, granophyres, horseplayer, procaryotes, prokaryotes, respiratory, skyscrapers, superlawyer, superlunary, superplayer, swordplayer.

+5 letters: arsenopyrite, chrysoprases, cryptomerias, horseplayers, hyperarousal, hyperboreans, hypercharges, hypermarkets, hyperrealism, hyperrealist, hypersurface, oropharynges, oropharynxes, perspiratory, platyrrhines, polygraphers, praiseworthy, precariously, presbyterate, presbyterial, presbyterian, previsionary, pyrargyrites, stereography, superciliary, supergravity, superlawyers, superplayers, swordplayers, transparency, typographers, xylographers.