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English

{{rank|wood|matters|physical|895|spring|troops|meeting|corner}}

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /sprɪŋ/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-spring.ogg
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Etymology

springan

Verb

{{en-verb|springs|springing|sprang|sprung}}

  1. To start to exist.
  2. : Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed.
  3. To jump or leap.
  4. : He sprang up from his seat.
  5. To release or set free, especially from prison.


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Translations

  • Greek: {{t+|el|ξεπροβάλλω|tr=xeproválo|sc=Grek}}, {{t+|el|ξεφυτρώνω|tr=xefitróno|sc=Grek}}
  • Italian: , ,
  • Japanese: 跳ね上がる (はねあがる, hane-agaru), 跳ねる (はねる, haneru)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|tfaċċa|xs=Maltese}}
  • Spanish:
  • Turkish: ,

Noun

Image:Coil_spring.JPG|thumb|right|A coil spring (mechanical device)

  1. Traditionally the first of the four seasons, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom; typically regarded as being from March 21 to June 20 in the Northern Hemisphere and from September 21 to December 20 in the Southern Hemisphere.
  2. Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.
  3. A place where water emerges from the ground.
  4. The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
  5. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bend|bent, compressed or stretched.
  6. In the Context of A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from swaying.
  7. In the Context of An erection of the penis.
  8. The source of an action
  9. * 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 9.
  10. *: ... discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?


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Translations

  • Japanese: 春 (はる, háru)
  • Korean: 봄 (bom)
  • Kurdish: bihar,
  • Latin: {{t+|la|ver|n|alt=vēr}}
  • Latvian: {{t-|lv|pavasaris|m|xs=Latvian}}
  • Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|pavasaris|m|xs=Lithuanian}}
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|rebbiegħa|f|xs=Maltese}}
  • Manchu: niyengniyeri
  • Maori: koanga
  • Mongolian: {{t-|mn|хавар|tr=khavar|sc=Cyrl|xs=Mongolian}}
  • Navajo: dąądą́ą́' (last spring)
  • Persian: {{t+|fa|بهار|tr=bahār|sc=fa-Arab|xs=Persian}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|wiosna|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|primavera|f}}
  • Romani: primavara
  • Romanian: {{t+|ro|primăvară|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|весна|f|tr=vesná|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Sardinian: beranu
  • Scottish Gaelic: earrach
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|jar|f}}
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|pomlad|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|primavera|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|vår|c}}
  • Turkish: ,
  • Welsh: gwanwyn
  • West Frisian: maaitiid , maitiid
  • Yiddish: פרילינג (fríling)
  • Finnish:
  • Korean: 샘 (saem)
  • Kurdish: kanî,
  • Latin: {{t-|la|fons|m}}
  • Latvian: avots
  • Lithuanian: šaltinis ; versmė ; verdenė
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|nixxiegħa|f|xs=Maltese}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|źródło|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fonte|f}}
  • Romani: zvoro
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|izvor|n}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|источник|m|tr=istóčnik|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|ключ|m|tr=ključ|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-|ru|родник|m|tr=rodník|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|izvir|m}}
  • Spanish: fuente ; manantial
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|källa|c}}
  • Turkish:
  • Waray-waray: burabod
  • West Frisian: welle
  • Yiddish: קוואַל (kval)
  • Breton: gwinterell , gwinterelloù
  • Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пружина|f|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Chinese: 弹簧, 发条 (fātiáo)
  • Croatian: opruga
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|pružina|f}}
  • Danish: fjeder
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|veer|f}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|risorto|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Estonian: vedru
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|ressort|m}}
  • German: {{t-|de|Sprungfeder|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|ελατήριο|n|tr=elatírio|sc=Grek}}, {{t+|el|σούστα|f|tr=sústa|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: קפיץ (kfitz)
  • Hungarian:
  • Indonesian: pegas, per
  • Interlingua: resorto
  • Italian: {{t+|it|molla|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|ばね|tr=bane|sc=Jpan}}
  • Korean: 용수철 (yongsucheol)
  • Latvian: atspere
  • Lithuanian: spyruoklė
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|molla|f|xs=Maltese}}
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|fjær|m}}
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|sprężyna|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|mola|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t+|ro|arc|n}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|пружина|f|tr=pružína|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: vzmet , pero#Slovene|pero
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|resorte|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|fjäder|c}}
  • Turkish: ,
  • West Frisian: fear
  • Yiddish: ספּרענזשינעס (sprenzhineh)
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|garde|f}}
  • Portuguese:

See also


Category:1000 English basic words Category:Calendar terms Category:English irregular verbs Category:Gaits Category:Seasons

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Danish

Etymology

From springe

Noun

spring

  1. #English|spring, jump, vault, leap


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Category:Danish nouns

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈsprɪŋ/


Verb form

spring

  1. first-person singular of springen


Category:Dutch verb forms

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German

Verb form

spring

  1. imperative singular of springen


Category:German verb forms

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Swedish

Verb form

spring

  1. imperative of springa


Category:Swedish verb forms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. t.
1. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to
cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to
spring a pheasant.
[1913 Webster]

2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to
spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
[1913 Webster]

She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
--Swift.
[1913 Webster]

3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
[1913 Webster]

4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as,
to spring a mast or a yard.
[1913 Webster]

5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap
operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
[1913 Webster]

6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force
or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and
allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in,
out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
[1913 Webster]

7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
[1913 Webster]

8. To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a
prison. [colloquial]
[PJC]

To spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a
ship's bottom.

To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak.

To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common
term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.

To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See
Watchman's rattle, under Watchman.

To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail
nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel.
--Mar. Dict.

To spring a mast or To spring a spar (Naut.), to strain
it so that it is unserviceable.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. i. [imp. Sprang (spr[a^]ng) or
Sprung (spr[u^]ng); p. p. Sprung; p. pr. & vb. n.
Springing.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. &
OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr.
spe`rchesqai to hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To leap; to bound; to jump.
[1913 Webster]

The mountain stag that springs
From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
--Philips.
[1913 Webster]

2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity;
to dart; to shoot.
[1913 Webster]

And sudden light
Sprung through the vaulted roof. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
[1913 Webster]

Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
--Otway.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its
elastic power.
[1913 Webster]

5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to
become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank,
sometimes springs in seasoning.
[1913 Webster]

6. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin
to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams
from their source, and the like; -- often followed by up,
forth, or out.
[1913 Webster]

Till well nigh the day began to spring. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to
cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
--Job xxxviii.
27.
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Do not blast my springing hopes. --Rowe.
[1913 Webster]

O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
--Pope.
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7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to
result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[1913 Webster]

[They found] new hope to spring
Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]

8. To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
[1913 Webster]

What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,
At whose command we perish, and we spring? --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a
leap.

To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.

To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.


To spring on or To spring upon, to leap on; to rush on
with haste or violence; to assault.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spring \Spring\, n. [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See
Spring, v. i.]
1. A leap; a bound; a jump.
[1913 Webster]

The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
--Dryden.
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2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its
former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
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3. Elastic power or force.
[1913 Webster]

Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! --Dryden.
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4. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough
wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical
purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing
concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other
force.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms
are the spiral spring (Fig. a), the coil spring
(Fig. b), the elliptic spring (Fig. c), the
half-elliptic spring (Fig. d), the volute spring,
the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring,
etc.
[1913 Webster]

5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a
stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a
natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." --Ps.
lxxxvii. 7. "A secret spring of spiritual joy." --Bentley.
"The sacred spring whence right and honor streams." --Sir
J. Davies.
[1913 Webster]

6. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is
produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
[1913 Webster]

Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move
The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as:
(a) A race; lineage. [Obs.] --Chapman.
(b) A youth; a springal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
(c) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of
trees; woodland. [Obs.] --Spenser. Milton.
[1913 Webster]

8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively
tune. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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9. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and
grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months
of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of
the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring."
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal
equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer
solstice, about June 21st.
[1913 Webster]

10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first
stage; as, the spring of life. "The spring of the day."
--1 Sam. ix. 26.
[1913 Webster]

O how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day. --Shak.
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11. (Naut.)
(a) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running
obliquely or transversely.
(b) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so
that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to
lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally
from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon
the wharf to which she is moored.
[1913 Webster]

Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air,
Boiling, etc.

Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of
thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the
inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a
book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank
book) spring up and lie flat.

Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force
by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel.

Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box.
See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n.

Spring beauty.
(a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate
herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty
blossoms, appearing in springtime.
(b) (Zool.) A small, elegant American butterfly ({Erora
laeta}) which appears in spring. The hind wings of
the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of
the female are mostly blue.

Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which
springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required
elasticity.

Spring beetle (Zool.), a snapping beetle; an elater.

Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of
mechanism, in which the spring is contained.

Spring fly (Zool.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it
appears in the spring.

Spring grass (Bot.), vernal grass. See under Vernal.

Spring gun, a firearm discharged by a spring, when this is
trodden upon or is otherwise moved.

Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which
fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame.

Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

Spring lock, a lock that fastens with a spring.

Spring mattress, a spring bed.

Spring of an arch (Arch.) See Springing line of an arch,
under Springing.

Spring of pork, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is
divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without
the shoulder. [Obs.] --Nares.

Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. --Gayton.

Spring pin (Locomotive Engines), an iron rod fitted between
the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate
the pressure on the axles.

Spring rye, a kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in
distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.

Spring stay (Naut.), a preventer stay, to assist the
regular one. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Spring tide, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the
new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common
tides. See Tide.

Spring wagon, a wagon in which springs are interposed
between the body and the axles to form elastic supports.


Spring wheat, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in
distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn.
[1913 Webster] Springald
Springal
WordNet spring
n 1: the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of
spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next
year" [syn: springtime]
2: a natural flow of ground water [syn: fountain, outflow,
outpouring, natural spring]
3: a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position
when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"
4: a light springing movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap,
leaping, saltation, bound, bounce]
5: the elasticity of something that can be stretched and
returns to its original length [syn: give, springiness]
6: a point at which water issues forth
v 1: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across
the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can
you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound]
2: develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take
shape" [syn: form, take form, take shape]
3: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]
4: produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a
new haircut on his wife"
5: develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"
6: produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang
these news on me just as I was leaving"
[also: sprung, sprang]
Moby Dictionary
Eastertide , Highland fling , Lastex , Maytime , accrue from ,
adaptability , adolescence , aestival , air mattress , airiness ,
ambition , anabasis , and jump , appear , arctic , arise , arrive ,
ascension , ascent , aspiration , autumn , autumnal , backfire ,
backlash , backlashing , balance spring , baleen , basis , baths ,
battledore , be born , be contingent on , be due to , bedding ,
bedspring , begin , beginning , bend , bevy , birth , blast , blitz ,
blow to pieces , blow up , bolster , bolt , bomb , bombard , bonanza ,
boomerang , boreal , bounce , bounce back , bounciness , bound ,
bound back , broach , broad jump , brumal , buck , buckjump , buckle ,
bud from , budtime , buoyance , buoyancy , burst forth , calling ,
canicular , cannon , cannon off , canter , capriole , carom , casino ,
cause , charm , chewing gum , chink , clamber , clear , cleave , climb ,
climbing , cloud , club , clubhouse , come , come from , come into being ,
come into existence , come out , come out of , come up , commence ,
consideration , contort , contrecoup , cornucopia , covey , crack ,
crevasse , crook , crumple , curvet , cushion , cut , cut open , dart ,
demivolt , depend on , derive from , descend from , discharge , dispart ,
distort , divaricate , divide , elastic , elasticity , elastomer ,
elevation , emanate , emanate from , emancipate , emerge , emerge from ,
ensue from , equinoctial , escalade , evolve , excitant , extensibility ,
fissure , flexibility , flight , flock , flow , flow from , fly ,
fly back , fly open , flying jump , follow from , font , fount ,
fountain , fountainhead , fox-trot , gaggle , galliard , gallop ,
gambling house , gathering place , gelandesprung , germinate from ,
get , git , give , gnarl , goal , gold mine , grand jete , greenness ,
ground , grow , grow from , grow out of , guiding light , guiding star ,
gum , gum elastic , gush , gyring up , hairspring , handball ,
handspring , hang on , hangout , hatch , haunt , have repercussions ,
head , headspring , headstream , headwater , health resort , hibernal ,
hiemal , high jump , hightail , hinge on , hippety-hop , hive , hop ,
hop along , hotfoot , hurdle , ideal , impetus , incise , incitement ,
increase , innerspring mattress , inspiration , intention , issue ,
issue from , jet , jete , jig , jump , jump over , jump shot , jump turn ,
jump-hop , jump-off , jumping jack , juvenility , kick , kick back ,
kickback , knot , lash back , lavolta , lay open , leap , leap over ,
leapfrog , levitation , liberate , litter , liveliness , lode , lodestar ,
long jump , loom , loose , lop , lope , mainspring , make tracks ,
manumit , mat , matter , mattress , meeting place , midsummer ,
midwinter , mine , morris , motive , mount , mounting , murmuration ,
negotiate , ope , open , open up , origin , originate , originate in ,
out of season , overjump , overleap , overskip , pad , pallet , part ,
pay for , pillow , pop , pounce , pounce on , pounce upon , primavera ,
prime , principle , proceed , proceed from , puberty , pubescence ,
purlieu , quarry , racket , rallying point , reason , rebound , rebuff ,
recalcitrate , recalcitration , recoil , release , rent , repercuss ,
repercussion , repulse , resile , resilience , resiliency , resort ,
resource , responsiveness , ricochet , rift , rip , rise , rising , rive ,
riverhead , rocketing up , root , rubber , rubber ball , rubber band ,
rug , run , running broad jump , running high jump , sake , saltation ,
saut de basque , score , screw , seasonal , seedtime , separate ,
shock absorber , shoot up , shooting up , skein , ski jump , skip ,
skitter , sleeping bag , slit , snap , snap back , soaring , solstitial ,
source , source of supply , spa , spandex , split , spout , spread ,
spread out , sprightliness , spring back , spring from , spring open ,
springboard , springhead , springiness , springlike , springs ,
springtide , springtime , sprint , sprout , sprout from , spurt ,
stamping ground , staple , start , start aside , start up , startle ,
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