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say it: SPRAY-ing
spraying is a noun meaning "the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)". It is pronounced /ˈspɹeɪɪŋ/ — SPRAY-ing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
aircraft
a quantity of small objects flying through the air
“a spray of bullets”
the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spraying come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.