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Definition: Spraying |
SprayingNoun1. The dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft). 2. A quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets". 3. The application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spraying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | The application of paint with a spray gun. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Spraying is the most hygienic method of cleaning carcases and if properly carried out will significantly reduce bacterial numbers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SprayingSynonyms: crop-dusting (n), spray (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What are you spraying money around like that for, you could've been nailed (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) You people are all alike, You march in here, try and touch the local things, I suppose next you'll be spraying me with one of those cans of paint, Smearing poor Tubbs here with excrement (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss) Don't be spraying into the phone there (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
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 | 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. |  | Pole and line fishing. Man in foreground is throwing live bait in water to keep school of tuna around the boat. Man with hose is spraying water to keep tuna from noticing boat. Lines in upper left lead to pulley system. When large fish is hooked, a man pulls on rope to pull fishing pole vertical which brings fish to side of boat for gaffing. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | It is recommended that all farm spraying tanks be filled with water a distance away from the water supply, so that any spills would not be near the supply. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Farmer spraying pesticide as part of pest management plan. Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Spot spraying problem weeds is the preferred method of weed control rather than general application of pesticides over the entire yard. Spot spraying is a practice also used on farms. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Spraying cotton in Mississippi. Credit: USDA. |
 | Spraying pesticide. Credit: USDA. |  | Spraying Leafy Spurge with a red dyeIdaho vegetationPlants in BLM. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |
 | A jet boat is spraying up water in the Rogue River along the Lower Table Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | A man standing in a boat with a pump spraying water at something. Credit: Unknown. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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 | Spraying car with high-powered watering hose. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | No. Spraying the house is NOT recommended. (references) | |
Federal funding of emergency spraying is rare and almost always requires a federal disaster declaration. (references) | ||
When aerial spraying is not routinely used, such services are usually contracted for a given time period. (references) | ||
Business | As reported by Kenya's Central Bureau of Statistics, major imports from the United States were spraying appliances, combine harvesters and agricultural tractors. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | Through aerial spraying of herbicide and manual eradication, Colombia has attempted to keep coca, opium poppy, and cannabis cultivation from expanding. (references) |
Netherlands | Products for waste oil, other waste disposal storage materials and special filter installations for auto paint spraying are growing markets in the Netherlands. (references) | |
South Africa | For example, there are South African distributors of general aviation aircraft who also run charter aircraft companies using the aircraft they distribute, or distributors of helicopters who also operate helicopter services for crop spraying and the transport of passengers and materials. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spraying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.73% of the time. "Spraying" is used about 197 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 81.73% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.71% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.05% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.52% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 197 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spraying": aerial spraying. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "spraying": crop-spraying. | |
Containing "spraying": paint-spraying pistol. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "spraying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sprucitje, spërkatje (aspersion, damping, douche, splash, splutter, sprinkling), pluhurim. (various references) | |
Arabic | رش (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, powder, spatter, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt), بخ (squirt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оросяване (irrigation), пръскане с пулверизатор, пръскане (splash, splosh, spray). (various references) | |
Chinese | 喷' (Perfuse, Perfused, Perfusing). (various references) | |
Danish | sproejtning (projection), sprøjtning (control, spray, spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment, treatment by spraying), sprøjtemaling (paint spraying, spray painting), sprøjteglasering, sprøjtebehandling (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), udsprøjtning, udlægning (delivery, discharge, spreading), termisk sproejtning (hot spraying), pulverisering (atomisation, pulverization, pulverizing), forstoevning (atomisation, atomization, carry-over), forstøvning (atomization), bekæmpelse (control, spray, treatment), behandling (treatment). (various references) | |
Dutch | strooien (dump, pour, pour out, scatter), spuiten (squirt), verstuiving (atomisation, atomization), verstuiven (spray, squirt), thermisch spuiten (hot spraying), glazuren door spuiten, bespuiting (control, spray, treatment), bespuiten (spray), besproeien (irrigate, sprinkle, water), behandeling door bespuiting (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), behandeling (treatment). (various references) | |
Finnish | ruiskutus (injection). (various references) | |
French | pulvérisation (spray). (various references) | |
German | sprengung (blasting, blowing up, breaking, breakup, bursting, mining, sprinkling), sprühen (bubble over, drizzle, effervesce, flash, fly, glitter, sparkle, spray, spring, squirt), Spritzen (bespatter, dabble, gush, hose, inject, pipe, slosh, spatter, spit, splash, splash up, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, spurt out, sputter, squirt, syringe, syringes), spritzend (sloshing, splashy, spouting, squirting), spritzende (sloshy), Spritzglasieren, Spritzmalerei (spray painting), thermisches Spritzen (hot spraying), Zerstaeubung (atomisation, sputtering), Zerstaeuben (atomisation, atomize, spray), Aufspritzen (splash up), Farbauftrag mit Spritzpistole (spray painting), Bestreuen (bestrew, cover, sprinkle, strewed, strewn, tax), Berieselung (constant stream, watering), Bekämpfung (combat), Behandlung durch Bespritzung (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), Behandlung (attention, care, deal, dealing, handling, management, medication, processing, reatment, session, therapy, treatment, usage), Aufstreuen (sprinkle on), lackierung (lacquer, paintwork, varnish, varnishing). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπολέμηση των παρασίτων (control, control of pests, parasite control, pest control, spray, treatment), ράντισμα (aspersion, spray, sprinkling, squirt), έλεγχος (checkpoЯnt, checkpoint, control), βάψιμο με ψεκασμό (paint spraying, spray painting), επέμβαση (interference, interposition), επιφανειακός διαποτισμός, εφαρμογή συντηρητικού με ραντισμό (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), θερμικός ψεκασμός (hot spraying), θεραπεία (cure, medication, remedy, therapy, treatment), διάστρωση (stratification), ψεκασμός (aspersion, atomisation, control, spray, sprinkling, treatment, watering). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זליפ" (sprinkling), זלוף (perfusion, spattering, sprinkling), "זלפ" (sprinkling, watering), רסוס (dusting, injection, powdering, pulverization, spray, sprinkling), תיז" (splashing, sprinkling, squirting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | permetezés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyemprotan. (various references) | |
Italian | spruzzatura a caldo (hot spraying), spruzzatura (gunning, spreading), spandimento (distribution, flow, spread, spreading), smaltatura a spruzzo, verniciatura a spruzzo (paint spraying, spray painting), trattamento per spruzzatura (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), trattamento mediante polverizzazione (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), trattamento (deal, handling, processing, treatment, usage), polverizzazione (pulverisation, pulverization), pittura a spruzzo (paint spraying, spray painting), nebulazione, irrorazione (surface irrigation, trickling), docciatura (showering). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ''布 (scattering, sprinkling), 吹き付け . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さっぷ (scattering, sprinkling), さ"ぷ (dissemination, pregnant woman, program, scattering, sprinkling, the Three Urban Prefectures, woman on the point of childbirth), ふきつけ. (various references) | |
Korean | 살포 (scatter, spray). (various references) | |
Manx | spreihagh (splashy, sprinkling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayingspray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vidragem pistola, tratamento por pulverização (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), tratamento por asperção (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), tratamento (cure, curing, dressing, handling, processing, remedy, treatment, usage), pulverização (pulverization), projecção a quente (hot spraying), pintura por spray (spray painting), pintura pistola (spray painted, spray painting), impregnação superficial, espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, spill, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew). (various references) | |
Romanian | pulverizare (comminution, levigation). (various references) | |
Russian | распыление (atomization, volatilization), разбрызгивать распыление распыляющий, разбрызгивание, пульверизация (pulverization). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prskanje (douche, spatter, splash, sprinkling). (various references) | |
Spanish | pulverizacion (atomisation), esmaltado por pistola, esmaltado por pulveracion, esparcimiento (amusement, scattering, spreading), extendido (engrossment, extended, extensive, issued, laid, lay, open, outspread, outstretched, prevalent, rampant, rife, spread out, spread wide, straggling, straggly, widespread), extensión (compass, duration, elongation, expanse, expansion, extending, extension, extensiveness, extent, extortion, incidence, largeness, length, outgrowth, outspread, range, reach, renewal, scale, scope, size, spaciousness, span, sprawl, spread, spreading, stretch, stretching, sweep), proyección con pistola (spray painting), distribución (allocation, breakdown, delivery, distribution, handout, issue, ladle, range, vending), pulverización (pulverization, spray), tratamiento por aspersión (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), regada (spreading), regado (spreading), riego (irrigation), tendido (laid, lay, lying, wash, washing), tratamiento (discussion, endeavor, endeavour, enquiry, medication, processing, style, treatment, usage), tratamiento con pulverizador (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying), proyección en caliente (hot spraying). (various references) | |
Swedish | besprutning (spray treatment, spraying treatment, treatment by spraying). (various references) | |
Turkish | püskürtme (belching, repulse, rollback, vomit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фарбування пульверизаці"ю (paint-spraying, sprinkle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "spraying": respraying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spraying" (pronounced sprā"ing) |
| 5 | -p r ā" i ng | praying, preying. |
| 4 | -r ā" i ng | betraying, fraying, graying, portraying, straying. |
| 3 | -ā" i ng | allaying, baying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, delaying, dismaying, disobeying, displaying, doomsaying, Haying, laying, nonpaying, obeying, overplaying, paying, playing, prepaying, repaying, replaying, saying, slaying, staying, surveying, swaying, weighing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: parings, parsing, praying, rasping, sparing, spaying, springy, syringa. | |
-2 letters: grains, grainy, paring, paying, prangs, prying, pyrans, raping, rasing, raying, saying, sprain, sprang, spring, spying. | |
-3 letters: airns, angry, aping, ayins, gains, garni, gipsy, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grapy, grasp, grays, grins, grips, gripy, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, pangs, pansy, paris, pians, pinas, pings, pirns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: agrypnias, raspingly, sparingly. | |
+2 letters: graspingly, panegyrics, panegyrist, paralysing, pargylines, respraying. | |
+3 letters: panegyrists, pharyngitis, tapestrying, unsparingly. | |
+4 letters: appraisingly, despairingly, playwritings, redisplaying, scintigraphy, surpassingly. | |
+5 letters: disparagingly, dispraisingly, pharyngitides, saprogenicity. | |
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