Spring

Verb

 * 1) To start to exist.
 * Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed.
 * 1) To jump or leap.
 * He sprang up from his seat.
 * 1) * 1900, ,
 * She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
 * 1) * 1912:, , Chapter 5
 * Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
 * 1) * 1922,,  Chapter 2
 * Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
 * 1)  To release or set free, especially from prison.
 * 1)  To release or set free, especially from prison.

Synonyms

 * be born, come into being, come into existence
 * bound, jump, leap
 * free, let out, release, spring loose

Derived terms

 * hope springs eternal
 * outspring
 * overspring
 * respring
 * spring a butt
 * spring an arch
 * spring a leak
 * spring a rattle
 * spring at
 * springel
 * springer
 * spring for
 * spring forth


 * spring-hare
 * spring in
 * springing
 * spring into action
 * spring-jack
 * spring-lobster
 * spring loose
 * spring on
 * spring the luff
 * spring to mind
 * spring-tree
 * spring up
 * upspring

Related terms

 * sprang
 * springwort
 * sprung
 * to-spring
 * unspring

Noun



 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern).
 * 3)  The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 20 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21.  (See  for other variations.)
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  A place where water emerges from the ground.
 * 6)  The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
 * 7)  A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
 * 8)  A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.
 * 9)  An erection of the penis.
 * 10)  The source of an action
 * 11) * 1748. David Hume.  Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 9.
 * ... discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?

Synonyms

 * : fount, source
 * : bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness
 * : boner, chubby, hard-on, stiffy, woody; see also "erection" in WikiSaurus
 * : impetus, impulse

Antonyms

 * : neap tide

Derived terms

 * advance spring
 * after-spring
 * afterspring
 * air spring
 * air-spring
 * anti-rattle spring
 * Arlington Springs Man
 * Arlington Springs Woman
 * artesian spring
 * austral spring
 * autumn-spring
 * auxiliary spring
 * balance spring
 * Barton Springs salamander
 * bedspring
 * Beijing Spring
 * Belleville spring
 * bending spring
 * Berber Spring
 * boiling spring
 * border spring
 * bow spring
 * box spring, box-spring
 * brine spring
 * brush spring
 * buckling spring
 * Caballine spring
 * Cambridge Springs defence, Cambridge Springs defense
 * cantilever spring
 * card spring
 * cart spring
 * cee spring, cee-spring, C spring, c-spring
 * clock spring
 * closed spring
 * coiled spring sign
 * coil spring
 * coil spring clutch
 * ColdSpring
 * compression spring
 * contact spring
 * Croatian Spring
 * cupped spring washer
 * Damascus Spring
 * damper spring
 * day-spring, dayspring
 * detent ball and spring
 * diaphragm spring
 * door hold-open spring
 * draw-spring, drawspring
 * driving spring
 * extension spring
 * extra spring
 * farewell-to-spring
 * finger spring
 * flat spring
 * float bumper spring
 * footsteps-of-spring
 * forest-spring encephalitis
 * garter spring
 * gas spring
 * graduated spring
 * haemoglobin Constant Spring, hemoglobin Constant Spring
 * hairspring
 * hand-spring, handspring
 * harbinger-of-spring
 * headspring
 * helical spring
 * helper spring


 * hot spring
 * hydrospring
 * Indian spring low water
 * innerspring
 * inside spring caliper
 * jagger spring
 * Jesus spring
 * Kesling spring
 * laminated spring
 * land-spring
 * laspring
 * latter spring
 * leaf spring, leaf-spring
 * lifespring
 * locating spring
 * loop spring
 * mainspring
 * master-spring
 * mean high water spring
 * mean low water spring


 * meshing spring
 * mid-spring
 * mineral spring
 * motor spring
 * natural spring
 * negative spring


 * offspring
 * ofspring
 * open spring
 * Operation Spring Awakening
 * Operation Spring Cleanup
 * Operation Spring of Youth
 * outside spring caliper
 * outspring
 * overload spring
 * paddle spring
 * parabolic spring
 * Pierian Spring
 * piston spring
 * Prague Spring
 * progressive rate spring
 * progressive valve spring
 * progressively wound valve spring
 * rattle spring
 * restoring spring
 * retainer spring tool
 * retro-spring
 * return spring
 * Russian spring-summer encephalitis
 * saddle-spring
 * salt spring
 * sear spring
 * sea-spring
 * seepage spring
 * semi-elliptic spring
 * separating spring
 * shoe return spring
 * single rate spring
 * soda spring
 * spiral spring
 * splayed spring
 * spreader spring
 * spring-action
 * Spring and Autumn Period
 * spring azure
 * spring back, spring-back
 * Springbal
 * spring balance
 * Spring Bank Holiday
 * spring bar
 * spring-based
 * spring baton
 * spring beam, spring-beam
 * spring beating
 * spring beating spoon
 * spring beauty, spring-beauty
 * spring bed
 * spring beetle, spring-beetle
 * spring-bell
 * spring-biased
 * spring binder, spring-binder
 * spring-binding
 * spring-bladed
 * spring bloom
 * spring-board, springboard
 * spring bolt
 * spring booster
 * spring bow
 * spring bows
 * spring box
 * spring brake
 * spring branch, spring-branch
 * spring break
 * spring cabbage
 * spring cankerworm
 * spring cap
 * spring-carriage
 * spring-cart
 * spring catch
 * spring channel binder
 * spring chicken
 * spring choke
 * spring clamp
 * spring-cleaning
 * spring cleavers
 * spring clip
 * spring clutch
 * spring collar
 * spring collet


 * spring compressor
 * spring conjunctivitis
 * spring constant
 * spring cress
 * spring crocus
 * spring crust
 * Spring Day
 * spring disease
 * spring divider
 * spring drive
 * spring dwindling
 * springed
 * spring ephemeral
 * spring equation
 * spring equinox
 * springet
 * spring eye
 * Springfest
 * spring festival
 * spring fever
 * spring finger
 * springfish
 * spring-flood
 * spring fly
 * spring force
 * springform pan
 * spring frog
 * spring-froth
 * springful
 * spring garden
 * spring gentian
 * spring ginger
 * spring grass, spring-grass
 * spring green
 * spring greens
 * spring gun, spring-gun
 * spring hanger
 * spring hare, spring-hare, springhare
 * spring-head, springhead
 * spring-headed
 * spring heath
 * spring-heeled
 * spring herring
 * spring hock
 * spring-hole
 * Spring Holiday
 * spring hook
 * spring-house, springhouse
 * spring in one's step
 * springish
 * spring isolator
 * spring juices
 * spring-keeper, springkeeper
 * spring lamb
 * spring lancet
 * spring latch
 * springle
 * springless
 * springlet
 * spring ligament
 * spring-like, springlike
 * spring line, springline
 * spring line settlement, springline settlement
 * springling
 * spring-loaded
 * spring lock, spring-lock, springlock
 * spring lock washer
 * spring-locked
 * spring mattress
 * spring melt
 * spring mix
 * The Spring of Arda
 * The Spring Offensive
 * The Spring of Nations
 * spring of pork
 * spring of the leaf
 * spring of the year
 * spring onion
 * spring ophthalmia
 * spring overshoot
 * spring overturn
 * Spring Palace
 * spring pasque flower
 * spring peeper
 * spring pin
 * spring-pit
 * spring planting
 * spring plate


 * spring-pottage
 * spring rail
 * spring rate
 * spring-release
 * spring ring clasp
 * spring roll
 * spring-run fish
 * spring runoff
 * spring rye
 * spring sail
 * spring salmon
 * spring-salt
 * spring scale
 * spring scalecap
 * spring seat
 * spring shackle
 * spring sludge
 * spring snow
 * spring soup
 * springspotter
 * spring squill
 * spring stay
 * spring steel
 * spring suspension
 * spring sweep
 * spring tail, spring-tail, springtail
 * spring tapping
 * spring-teller
 * spring temper
 * spring thaw
 * spring tide
 * spring-tide, springtide
 * spring time, spring-time, springtime
 * spring-tooth
 * spring training
 * spring-tree
 * Spring Triangle
 * spring-type brake actuator
 * spring usher
 * spring vetch
 * spring vetchling
 * spring wagon
 * spring wagtail
 * spring washer
 * spring water, spring-water, springwater
 * spring-well
 * spring wheat
 * spring windup
 * spring wood, spring-wood, springwood
 * springy
 * steel spring
 * sulfur spring, sulphur spring
 * tensioning spring
 * tension spring
 * thermal spring
 * thermostatic spring choke
 * throttle return spring
 * torsion spring
 * trailing spring
 * truss spring steel
 * underspring
 * upholstery coil spring
 * uprighting spring
 * upspring
 * valve spring
 * valve spring cap
 * valve spring collar
 * valve spring compressor
 * valve spring depressor
 * valve spring lifter
 * valve spring retainer
 * valve spring seat
 * variable rate spring
 * variable spring
 * vauclusian spring
 * vintage spring
 * volute spring
 * V-spring
 * wall spring
 * warm spring
 * watch main spring steel
 * watch-spring
 * water-spring
 * wave spring
 * weeping spring
 * well-spring, wellspring
 * zero-length spring
 * Z spring

Related terms

 * aspring
 * atspring
 * bespring
 * espringal
 * rumspringa
 * springal, springald


 * springboc, springbock
 * springbok
 * springe
 * spring-haas, springhaas
 * springhalt
 * springle

Adjectives for Spring
trickling; sparkling; hasty; delightful; elegant; plashy; convulsive; fruitless; smiling; wayside; copious; muscular; bubbling; sagging; clear; perpetual; tongue-tied; secret crystal; bitter; inexhaustible; powerful quivering;  amorous-breathing;   bursting fern-wreathed; purling; covert; young whispering; tardy; lasting; latent; limpid; filthy; lagging; balmy; exulting; budding; portentous; endless; sinuous; babbling; unfading; living; phantom; fathomless; unsealed; humbler; unusual.

Verbs for Spring
apostrophize—; bid—to; greet—; hail— prophesy—; reveal—; salute—; taste— welcome—; —adorns; —arrives; —boasts —breathes; —brings;  —bursts ;  —calls forth; —comes; —cries; —departs; —flies; —flourishes; —forsakes; —greets; —laughs; —murmurs; —questions; —returns; —rushes; —says good-bye; —smiles; —spreads —supplies; —takes leave; —takes wing; — unbosoms; —unlocks ; —visits; —wakens —whips away; —works.

Adverbs for Spring
agilely; impetuously; hazardously; independently; amazingly; spontaneously; impulsively; joyously; viciously; vindictively; dexterously.

Thesaurus
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, steeplechase, stem, stem from, step, step along, step lively, stimulant, stimulus, stretch, stretch fabric, stretchability, stretchiness, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, surge, swarm, swing open, takeoff, taking off, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, tone, tonicity, tonus, tour jete, trampoline, trip, trot, turn, turn awry, turn on, twist, ulterior motive, unbind, unchain, underbed, underbedding, unshackle, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspring, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, vein, vernal, vocation, warp, watch, watering place, well, wellhead, wellspring, whalebone, whence, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, yield, youthfulness, youthhood, zooming

Etymology
springen:, from Old English springan:, from (cf. West Frisian springe:, Dutch/German springen:, Swedish springa:), from  (compare Lithuanian spreñgti: ‘to push in’, Old Church Slavonic undefined: ‘to spin, stretch’, Ancient Greek undefined: ‘to hasten’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘is eager’).

Sense of ‘season’ 1547, from earlier springing time, spring-time, in sense of buds sprouting or “spring” up. This replaced Old English Lent: by the 14th century.

Sense of ‘source of water’ attested circa 1225.

Verb

 * Basque: jaio
 * Bulgarian: появявам се
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:, ,


 * Japanese: 跳ね上がる (はねあがる, hane-agaru), 跳ねる (はねる, haneru)
 * Luxembourgish: entsprangen
 * Macedonian: се појавува
 * Maltese:
 * Portuguese: nascer
 * Russian: возникать, брать начало
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Basque: saltatu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ξεπετάγομαι, πετάγομαι
 * Indonesian: melompat
 * Italian:


 * Latin: circumsilio
 * Luxembourgish: sprangen
 * Macedonian: отскокнува, скокнува
 * Maltese:
 * Portuguese: saltar
 * Russian:, ;
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * West Frisian: springe


 * : זינק

Noun

 * Afrikaans: lente
 * Albanian: pranverë
 * Arabic: ربيع
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian: primavera
 * Azeri: ,
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: вясна
 * Bengali: বসন্ত
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: primavera
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אביב
 * Hindi: बसंत, वसंत, बहार
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: musim semi
 * Interlingua: primavera
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 春
 * Karelian:
 * Kazakh: көктем
 * Khmer: ឧតុរាជ
 * Korean: 봄
 * Kurdish: bihar,
 * Lao: ວະສັນ, ວະສັນຕະ, ວະສັນຕະຣະດູ
 * Latin:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Fréijoer
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: musim semi
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: niyengniyeri
 * Maori: koanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old French:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: primavara
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern:
 * Sanskrit: कुसुमाकरः
 * Sardinian: beranu
 * Scots: voar (Shetlandic)
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пролеће, прољеће
 * Roman: proleće, proljeće, proliće, prolitje
 * Sinhalese: වසන්ත ඍතුව
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: masika, majira ya chipuko, kipindi cha demani
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tagsibol
 * Tajik: баҳор
 * Thai: ฤดูใบไม้ผลิ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: весна
 * Urdu: بسنت, بہار
 * Uzbek: bahor
 * Veps:
 * Vietnamese: (務春), xuân (春)
 * Volapük: florüp
 * Võro:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: maaitiid, maitiid ,
 * Yiddish:


 * Dutch: springtij
 * Finnish:
 * German: Springflut


 * Korean: 한사리 (hansari)
 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Basque: iturri
 * Breton: eienenn eien, andon, andonioù , mammenn , mammennoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 泉 (quán), 源泉 (yuán quán)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: allikas, läte, veesilm
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, , , ανάβρα
 * Hebrew: מעיין
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: mata air
 * Interlingua: fonte
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 泉 (いずみ, izumi), 温泉 (おんせん, onsen) (hot spring, spa)


 * Korean: 샘 (saem)
 * Kurdish: kanî,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: avots
 * Lithuanian: šaltinis ; versmė ; verdenė
 * Macedonian:, вруток
 * Malay: mata air
 * Maltese:
 * Meänkieli:
 * Old French:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: zvoro
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: fuente ; manantial
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Waray-Waray: burabod
 * West Frisian: welle
 * Yiddish: קוואַל


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ελαστικότητα


 * Russian: упругость, эластичность


 * Armenian: զսպանակ
 * Basque: Malguki
 * Breton: gwinterell, gwinterelloù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 弹簧, 发条 (fātiáo)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fjeder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vedru
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: קפיץ
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: resorto


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 용수철 (yongsucheol)
 * Latvian: atspere
 * Lithuanian: spyruoklė
 * Macedonian:, федер
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: vzmet,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * West Frisian: fear
 * Yiddish: ספּרענזשינעס


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Russian: шпринг


 * Greek:
 * Portuguese: origem


 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: origen

Noun

 * 1) spring, jump, vault, leap

Related terms

 * firspring
 * højdespring
 * længdespring
 * springavancement


 * springbane
 * springbræt
 * springkniv
 * springmadras


 * springvand
 * stangspring
 * trespring

Etymology
Verbal noun to springe:.

Verb
spring



Noun

 * , springtime
 * 1) growth of vegetation in springtime

Verb

 * 1) to
 * 2) to leap over, cross at a bound
 * 3) to put forth, send up or out
 * 4) to burst, split, break apart, break into
 * 5) to dance a reel

Noun

 * 1) a running (back and forth)
 * 2) * 1918, Goss-skolan i Plumfield, the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
 * Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten.
 * The afternoon was spent in arranging things, and when the running and lugging and hammering was over, the ladies were invited to behold the institution.