Spray or spraying commonly refer to: * Spray (liquid drop) ** Aerosol spray **

Blood spray Blood squirt (blood spurt, blood spray, blood gush, or blood jet) is the effect when an artery is ruptured. Blood pressure causes the blood to bleed out at a rapid, intermittent rate in a spray or jet, coinciding with the pulse, rather than the ...

** Hair spray **

Nasal spray Nasal sprays are used to deliver medications locally in the nasal cavities or systemically. They are used locally for conditions such as nasal congestion and allergic rhinitis. In some situations, the nasal delivery route is preferred for syste ...

** Pepper spray ** PAVA spray ** Road spray or tire spray,

road debris Road debris, a form of road hazard, is debris on or off a road. Road debris includes substances, materials, and objects that are foreign to the normal roadway environment. Debris may be produced by vehicular or non-vehicular sources, but in all ...

kicked up from a vehicle tire ** Sea spray, refers to aerosol particles that form in the ocean * Spraying, or the creation of a spray ** Spraying (animal behavior), the action of an animal marking its territory with urine ** The use of a

spray bottle A spray bottle is a bottle that can squirt, spray or mist fluids. History While spray bottles existed long before the middle of the 20th century, they used a rubber bulb which was squeezed to produce the spray; the quickly-moving air siphoned ...

** The use of a sprayer ** Aerial application of chemicals **

Spray painting Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface. The most common types employ compressed gas—usually air—to atomize and direct the paint particles. ...

Spray or spraying may also refer to:

People

Ruth Hinshaw Spray Ruth Hinshaw Spray (February 16, 1848 – February 26, 1929) was an American peace activist. Spray was prominent as a teacher in the public schools and work for the protection of children and animals. She was also active in the work of child labo ...

(1848-1929), American peace activist

Places

* Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of Eden, North Carolina

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Spray (band), a British synthpop band * ''Spray'' (video game), a 2008 video game for Nintendo's Wii video game console

Brands and enterprises

Spray Network Spray Network AB is a Swedish Internet company that runs the web portal spray.se. Spray was founded in 1995, was bought by Lycos Europe, but was sold to Allers in 2006. spray.se has about 750 000 visitors per week. In 2004 Spray bought the Swedis ...

, a Swedish Internet company

Computing

Heap spraying In computer security, heap spraying is a technique used in exploits to facilitate arbitrary code execution. The part of the source code of an exploit that implements this technique is called a heap spray. In general, code that ''sprays the heap'' a ...

in a computer security exploit * JIT spraying, a specialised version of the above

Ships

* ''Spray'' (sailing vessel), the ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century * USS ''Spray'' (ID-2491), a trawler in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919 * USS ''Spray II'' (SP-308), a motorboat ordered delivered to the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel but never taken over by the Navy

Other uses

* Spray (mathematics), a type of vector field in differential geometry defined on the tangent bundle of a manifold * Spraying, using an

automatic firearm An automatic firearm is an auto-loading firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharg ...

in an attack