What's the difference between spray and sprue?

Spray


Definition:

  • (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
  • (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
  • (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
  • (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
  • (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
  • (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
  • (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
  • (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
  • (3) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (4) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
  • (5) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (6) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
  • (7) An infection rate of 0.46% was comparable to the incidence previously observed for conventional methods using an iodine spray as a skin preparation.
  • (8) The effect of spraying plants with rain-water was to enhance slightly the total content of all trace metals analysed.
  • (9) In pest control operations, organophosphorus compounds (OP) have been sprayed as insecticides, blood cholinesterase (ChE) activities and urinary alkylphosphate levels were measured for both OP-sprayers (n = 102) and non-sprayers (n = 35) in pest control companies, and the relationship between the analytical results and spraying conditions was investigated.
  • (10) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
  • (11) In global evaluations some 60% of patients had good to excellent results with the nasal spray and some 75% with the eye drops.
  • (12) Enrichment cultures were established with the aromatic fraction of a crude oil and screened for aromatic-degrading pseudomonads, using a sprayed plate technique.
  • (13) Heart rate increased significantly by 2.0 min in the tablet group but did not change in the spray group.
  • (14) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.
  • (15) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An activist sprays T-shirts during a training protest organised by NoG20 Rhein-Main.
  • (17) We may be able to control as die back with fungicides but we would need to spray every few weeks over the whole country.
  • (18) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
  • (19) Large-scale residual spraying was not totally effective and was very costly, and mass chemoprophylaxis was not feasible.
  • (20) 46 boys were sent for operation and have been treated primary with LH-RH nasal spray.

Sprue


Definition:

  • (n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
  • (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
  • (n.) Same as Sprew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward.
  • (2) The inflow rate at the middle stage of casting was evaluated as v = 21.05 + 1.79 C (C: the cross-sectional area of the main sprue).
  • (3) These results showed rapid clearance of the D3-3H in the subject with tropical sprue and steatorrhea indicating depletion of vitamin D stores in the tissues and decrease in the net absorption of the dose when given orally.
  • (4) Finally, there appears to be an increased incidence of intestinal malignancies (lymphoma, adenocarcinoma) in nontropical sprue.
  • (5) Normal jejunal pattern reported by some workers in patients with tropical sprue could possibly be due to inadequate sampling of the total biopsy piece.
  • (6) These findings in patients with chronic tropical sprue are similar to findings in normal Indians and suggest that jejunal handling of sodium and water is abnormal when compared with normal English subjects, but that the mucosa is not in a secretory phase as seen in certain other diarrhoeal states or in the acute early phase of sprue.
  • (7) In addition, excessive alcohol use, smoking, malnutrition, and a latent case of sprue were involved in bringing about the folic acid deficiency.
  • (8) In the case of glycyl-L-leucine considerably more glycine and leucine were found in the perfusate in patients with sprue than in the control subjects.
  • (9) Bacterial overgrowth, which sometimes occurs after infective diarrhoea in the tropics and gives rise to tropical sprue, is a result of stasis.
  • (10) Celiac sprue and Crohn's disease have very rarely been documented in the same patient.
  • (11) The margin widths of the flared and the straight sprue attachment groups were significantly less than the abrupt or gradual constriction attachment group (p less than 0.05).
  • (12) However, intestinal permeability was decreased in patients with idiopathic sprue and increased in those with idiopathic hyperamylasemia.
  • (13) These 12 cases had a mean of 30.4 lymphocytes per 100 superficial colonic epithelial cells, compared with means of 8.4 in sprue cases without colonic epithelial lymphocytosis, 4.8 in normal controls, and 32.4 in nine cases of lymphocytic colitis without concurrent celiac sprue.
  • (14) The virus of transmissible gastroenteritis produced sprue-like lesions in the small intestines of young pigs.
  • (15) Three additional cases of small-bowel adenocarcinoma in association with nontropical sprue are reported.
  • (16) In a series of 28 sequential patients found to have microscopic changes characteristic of sprue on biopsy, distinctive endoscopic changes were found in 22 (in 6 of 9 with sprue in relapse, and 16 of 19 presenting with initial symptoms).
  • (17) Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover studies with (125)I-labelled IgG showed a high rate of synthesis in three Indian controls and an appreciably reduced or low rate in seven of the eight cases of tropical sprue.
  • (18) We report coexistent collagenous colitis and collagenous sprue in a 62-year-old woman with diarrhea.
  • (19) The radiologic findings are described of mucosal folds thickening in coeliac sprue in patients with short clinical history.
  • (20) The mean amount of internal porosity from all analyzed sites for each sprue design was calculated as a percent site porosity per total site and differences between the experimental sites and groups tested.

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