gather vs spray

gather

noun
  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

  • The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 

  • A gathering. 

  • The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 

  • A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

verb
  • To grow gradually larger by accretion. 

  • To bring stitches closer together. 

  • To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 

  • To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 

  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • To congregate, or assemble. 

  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • To bring parts of a whole closer. 

  • To gain; to win. 

  • To be filled with pus 

  • To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 

  • To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. 

spray

noun
  • Something resembling a spray of liquid. 

  • Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. 

  • A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure. 

  • A small branch of flowers or berries. 

  • A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold. 

  • A collective body of small branches. 

  • 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. 

  • A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. 

  • A pressurized container; an atomizer. 

  • A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. 

  • Branches and twigs collectively; foliage. 

  • 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. 

  • An ornament or design that resembles a branch. 

verb
  • To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance. 

  • To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. 

  • To project many small items dispersively. 

  • 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 urinate in order to mark territory. 

  • To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction. 

  • To give unwanted advice. 

  • To project in a dispersive manner. 

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