spring | |
1. v. To jump or leap. | |
He sprang up from his seat. | |
2. v. To pass over by leaping. | |
to spring over a fence (in this sense, the verb spring must be accompanied by the preposition 'over'.) | |
3. v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc. | |
4. v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison. | |
5. v. (Australia, slang) To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules. | |
6. v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply. | |
Trees are already springing up in the plantation. | |
7. v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. | |
8. v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert. | |
to spring a pheasant | |
9. v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken. | |
to spring a mast or a yard | |
10. v. 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. | |
to spring in a slat or a bar | |
11. v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. | |
12. v. To move suddenly when pressure is released. | |
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped. | |
A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. | |
14. v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out. | |
15. v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. | |
16. v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper. | |
17. v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch). | |
They sprung an arch over the lintel. | |
18. v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle). | |
19. s. A leap; a bound; a jump. | |
20. s. Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer. | |
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce. | |
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco. | |
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable. | |
21. s. Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern. | |
22. s. The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See (pedialite | |
23. s. 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. | |
24. s. A place where water or oil emerges from the ground. | |
This water is bottled from the spring of the river. | |
25. s. The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc. | |
the spring of a bow | |
26. s. Elastic power or force. | |
27. s. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched. | |
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke. | |
28. s. (slang) An erection of the penis. | |
29. s. The source of an action or of a supply. | |
30. s. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. | |
31. s. That which springs, or is originated, from a source. | |
32. s. A race; lineage. | |
33. s. A youth; a springald. | |
34. s. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. | |
35. s. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. | |
36. s. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. | |
37. s. (nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging. | |
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much. | |
38. s. (nautical) 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 | |
39. s. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. | |