What does Spay mean?
Definitions for Spay
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Princeton's WordNet
alter, neuter, spay, castrateverb
remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat spayed?"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Spayverb
To castrate female animals.
Etymology: spado, Latin.
Be dumb you beggars of the rythming trade,
Geld your loose wits, and let your muse be spay’d. John Cleveland.The males must be gelt, and the sows spay’d; the spay’d they esteem as the most profitable, because of the great quantity of fat upon the inwards. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Wikipedia
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Lieutenant General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport (IATA: AYX, ICAO: SPAY) is a small regional airport serving the town of Atalaya, in the Ucayali Region of Peru. The town is at the confluence of the Tambo and Ucayali Rivers. The airport name in Spanish is Aeropuerto Teniente General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo, with Teniente General often abbreviated as Tnte. Gral. The airport is currently served by one scheduled airline, and it receives also private and charter flights. The Atalaya non-directional beacon (Ident: LAY) is located 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) northwest of the runway.
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Spay is a veterinary procedure that involves the removal of reproductive organs in female animals. This procedure, also known as an ovariohysterectomy, generally includes the removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries to prevent pregnancy. Spaying is commonly performed on pets like cats and dogs as a method of population control and to prevent certain health and behavioral issues.
Webster Dictionary
Spayverb
to remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal)
Spayverb
the male of the red deer in his third year; a spade
Etymology: [Cf. Spade a spay, Spay, v. t.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Spay
spā, v.t. to make an animal barren by destroying its ovaries.—Also Spāve. [L. spado—Gr. spadōn, a eunuch—Gr. spaein, draw out.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Spay in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Spay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Spay in a Sentence
We’ve seen a drop in pet adoption especially with COVID restrictions being lifted and more people taking up the vaccine, this could be attributed to an increase in pet populations due to people who want pets but cannot afford them or those who do not want their pets anymore and end up releasing them into shelters or rescue homes, which is why it is important to spay and neuter your pets.
Something that I use in the shelters and high-volume spay-neuter facilities that I've worked in is playing music, i have used slow-paced classical music at a low volume for 'quiet hour' with shelter dogs.
There's easily a million stray animals right now, if not two million wandering around Ukraine looking for food, and they're going to start mating, and they're in shelters that don't have protection because they don't have enough cages. You're going to have a huge problem, so we said, we need to set up mobile units to go over there and spay, neuter, vaccinate these animals. And then we thought about, and we said, ‘Well, let's work that with Microsoft and put in a chip or read their chips and try to reunite them with their owners,'.
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- Eierstöcke entfernen, sterilisierenGerman
- esterilizarSpanish
- steriloida, kuohiaFinnish
- enlever les ovaires de, opérerFrench
- spothScottish Gaelic
- ivartalanítHungarian
- sterilizzare, rimuovere le ovaia, castrare, asportare le ovaia, ovariectomiaItalian
- steriliserenDutch
- sterylizowaćPolish
- яичник, удалять, стерилизоватьRussian
- kastreraSwedish
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