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单词 spring
释义

spring

See also: Spring

English

Etymology

As a verb, from Middle English spryngen (“to burst or flow forth, to sprout, to emerge, to happen, to become known, to sprinkle”), from Old English springan (“to burst or flow forth, to sprout, to emerge, to become known”), cognate with Afrikaans spring, West Frisian springe, Dutch & German springen, Danish springe, Swedish springa.

Further etymology is uncertain, but usually taken to derive from a Proto-Germanic verb reconstructed as *springaną (“to burst forth”), from a Proto-Indo-European root reconstructed *sprenǵʰ- whose other descendants may include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

As a noun, from Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”), from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”) and Old English spryng (“a jump”), from ablaut forms of the Proto-Germanic verb. Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sprĭng, IPA(key): /spɹɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ
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Verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)

  1. (intransitive) To burst forth.
    1. (of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
      • Beowulf, ll. 2966–7:
        ...for swenge swat ædrum sprong
        forð under fexe.
        ...for the swing, the blood from his veins sprang
        forth under his hair.
      • c. 1540, John Bellenden translating Livy as History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125:
        ...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude...
      The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
    2. (of water, now mostly followed by "out" or "up") To gush, to flow out of the ground.
    3. (of light) To appear, to dawn.
      • 1611, Bible (KJV), Judges, 19:25:
        ...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.
    4. (of plants) To sprout, to grow,
      • 1611, Bible (KJV), Job, 38:25–27:
        Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
        To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
        To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
      • 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto V”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], OCLC 36924440, page 61:
        Commerce! beneath whose poison-breathing shade / No solitary virtue dares to spring, [...]
      • 1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p. 42:
        Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.
      • 1974, James Albert Michener, Centennial, p. 338:
        There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.
      • 2006, N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross, vi:
        Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.
    5. (now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
    6. (hunting, especially of birds) To rise from cover.
      • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed for Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], OCLC 664400715, Act I, scene i, pages 3–4:
        Home I would go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors, / Watchful as Fowlers when their Game will spring; […]
    7. (of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
    8. (figurative) to arise, to come into existence.
      Hope springs eternal.
      He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
      Synonyms: arise, form, take shape
    9. (figurative, Usually with cardinal adverbs, of animals) to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
      • c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v:
        ...into helle spring...
      • 1474, William Caxton translator, Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141:
        Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.
      • 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton:
        ...the Mountain Stag, that springs
        From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
        Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...
      • 1827, Clement Clarke Moore, "(A Visit from St. Nicholas)":
        ...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
        I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
        However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
      • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes:
        Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
      • 2011 April 11, The Atlantic:
        Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...
      Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
      He sprang to his feet.
      A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
      Don't worry. She'll spring back to her cheerful old self in no time.
      It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
      She sprang to her husband's defense and clocked the protestor.
      Synonyms: bound, jump, leap
    10. (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
      He sprang from peasant stock.
    11. (figurative, religion, philosophy) to descend or originate from.
      The Stoicssprang from the Cynics.
    12. (obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
    13. (obsolete, of knowledge, usually with wide) To become known, to spread.
    14. (obsolete, of odors) To emit, to spread.
  2. (transitive, archaic, of beards) To grow.
    • c. 1330,, "Otuel", The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, ll. 1445–6:
      A ȝong kniȝt, þat sprong furst [berd],
      Of no man he nas aferd.
  3. (transitive) To cause to burst forth.
    1. (rare, of water) To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
    2. (figurative, of plants) To bring forth.
      1. (obsolete) permit to bring forth new shoots, leaves, etc.
    3. (obsolete, of knowledge) To cause to become known, to tell of.
    4. (figurative, of animals) To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
      • 1986 April 25, Horse & Hound, p. 40:
        Just before the last pair of cones he sprung his ponies.
      • 2003 July 10, Daily Telegraph, p. 7:
        Simple tricks such as an ‘ollie’—springing the board into mid-air—can be picked up in just a couple of weeks.
    5. (hunting, of birds) To cause to rise from cover.
      His dogs sprang the grouse and partridges and flushed the woodcock.
    6. (obsolete, military, of weapons) To shift quickly from one designated position to another.
      • 1833, Regulations for the Instruction... of the Cavalry, i, i, 29:
        Each man springs his ramrod as the officer passes him, and then returns it.
    7. (obsolete, of horses) To breed with, to impregnate.
      • 1585, Thomas Washington translating Nicolas De Nicolay as The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie..., Bk. IV, p. 154:
        ...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to spring their mares...
    8. (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
      He sprang the trap.
      • 1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
        On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Haif Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To make wet, to moisten.
  5. (intransitive, usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
    The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
  6. (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
    • 1698, François Froger, A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa, p. 30:
      On the 22nd the mines sprang, and took very good effect.
  7. (obsolete, military) to go off.
    • 2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 5:
      The whole contraption appears liable to spring apart at any moment.
  8. (transitive, military) To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
    • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. II, x, ix:
      They sprung another Mine... wherein was placed about sixtie Barrels of Powder.
  9. (intransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
    • 2011, Julian Stockwin, Conquest, p. 177:
      Probably the mast had sprung in some squall.
  10. (transitive, nautical) To have something crack.
    • 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
      The Edward sprang hir foremast.
  11. (transitive, nautical) To cause to crack.
    • a. 1653, Zacharie Boyd, "Zion's Flowers":
      A boisterous wind...
      Springs the... mast...
  12. (transitive, figurative) To surprise by sudden or deft action.
    1. To come upon and flush out
      • 1819, James Hardy Vaux, "A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language", Memoirs, Vol. II, s.v. "Plant":
        To spring a plant, is to find any thing that has been concealed by another.
    2. (Australia, slang) to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
      • 1980, John Hepworth & al., Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs..., p. 42:
        He figured that nobody would ever spring him, but he figured wrong.
    3. (obsolete) To begin something.
    4. (obsolete) To produce, provide, or place an item unexpectedly.
      • 1700, John Dryden translating Ovid as "Cinyras and Myrrha" in Fables, p. 178:
        Surpriz'd with Fright,
        She starts, and leaves her Bed, and springs a Light.
      • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, Vol. I, p. 53:
        It's a feast at a poor country labourer's place, when he springs six-penn'orth of fresh herrings.
    5. (obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
    6. (obsolete, of jokes, gags) To tell, to share.
    7. (of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
      • 2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The Denuclearisation Dance Resumes”, in BBC News‎:
        North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.
      Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
    8. (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
      His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
      Synonyms: free, let out, release, spring loose, jailbreak
      • 2007, Mike Batt (lyrics and music), “If You Were a Sailboat”, performed by Katie Melua:
        If I was in jail I know you'd spring me
    9. (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
  13. (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
    They sprung an arch over the lintel.
  14. (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
    The arches spring from the front posts.
  15. (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
  16. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To raise a vessel's sheer.
  17. (transitive, obsolete, cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
  18. (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
    • 1957, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Over Seventy, p. 137:
      He wouldn't spring a nickel for a bag of peanuts.
  19. (obsolete, intransitive, slang) To raise an offered price.
  20. (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
  21. (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
  22. (intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
  23. (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
  24. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To provide spring or elasticity
  25. (figurative, rare, obsolete) to inspire, to motivate.
  26. (transitive, intransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
    • 1873 July, Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine, p. 503:
      Don't drive it in too hard, as it will ‘spring’ the plane-iron, and make it concave.
    A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
    He sprang in the slat.
  27. (intransitive, now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
  28. (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
    • 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, Chapter 15, p. 228,
      “Gee, Dad, Nancy’s springing all right,” Ray said and paused in spontaneous pleasure.
      Stan Parker came, and together they looked at their swelling heifer.
  29. (transitive, of rattles, archaic) To sound, to play.
    • 1850, Samuel Prout Newcombe, Pleasant pages, page 197:
      I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
  30. (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere
    • 1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507:
      True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
    • 1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2:
      If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could […]
    • 1937, Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly, page 29:
      They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told.
    • 1950, Chambers’s Journal, page 269:
      She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo.
    • 2006, Tim Pratt, “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I, →ISBN, page 2:
      In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch.
    • 2010, Larry Stettner; Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 84:
      Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing” in Colorado.)
    1. (of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.

Usage notes

  • The past-tense forms sprang and sprung are both well attested historically. In modern usage, sprang is comparatively formal (and more often considered correct), sprung comparatively informal. The past participle, however, is overwhelmingly sprung; sprang as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.

Synonyms

  • (come into being): see also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

  • hope springs eternal
  • outspring
  • overspring
  • respring
  • spring a butt
  • spring a leak
  • spring an arch
  • 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 life
  • spring to mind
  • spring-tree
  • spring up
  • upspring
  • sprang
  • springwort
  • sprung
  • to-spring
  • unspring

Translations

to jump — see jump,‎ leap

Noun

Spring (season) in Germany
A coil spring (mechanical device)

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)

  1. (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
    • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox":
      The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke;
      Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might,
      And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight.
  2. (countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
    • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 172:
      Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
    Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
    You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
    Synonym: springtime
    Coordinate terms: summer, autumn or fall, winter
    1. (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
      Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
    2. (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
      I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
      The spring issue will be out next week.
  3. (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
    • 1611, Bible (KJV), 1 Samuel 9:26:
      ...and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house...
    • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
      O how this spring of love resembleth
      The uncertain glory of an April day.
    1. (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
      Arab Spring
      Prague Spring
  4. (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
  5. (countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
    1. (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
      This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
      Synonyms: fount, source
    2. (oceanography, obsolete) The rising of the sea at high tide.
    3. (oceanography) Short for spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
      Antonym: neap tide
    4. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
      We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
      Synonym: coil
    5. (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
      • 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, Vol. III, p. 72:
        He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora.
    6. (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
      You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
      • 1769, William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, s.v.:
        Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her.
      • 2007 January 26, Business Times:
        ‘Springs’ are the ropes used on a ship that is alongside a berth to prevent fore and aft movements.
    7. (figurative) A race, a lineage.
    8. (figurative) A youth.
    9. A shoot, a young tree.
    10. A grove of trees; a forest.
  6. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. (countable, nautical, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
    • 1846, Arthur Young, Nautical Dictionary, p. 292:
      A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring.
  8. (uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
    1. Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
      the spring of a bow
      Synonyms: bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness
    2. Elastic energy, power, or force.
      • 1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8:
        Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
        How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!
      • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
        Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
  9. (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
    • 1611, Bible (KJV), Psalms 87:7:
      As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee.
    • 1693, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism..., Sermon 1:
      Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him, he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable.
    • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, §9:
      […] discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, OCLC 59891543, page 1:
      ‘Have you ever contemplated, Adrian, the phenomenon of springs?’
      ‘Coils, you mean?’
      ‘Not coils, Adrian, no. Coils not. Think springs of water. Think wells and spas and sources. Well-springs in the widest and loveliest sense. Jerusalem, for instance, is a spring of religiosity. One small town in the desert, but the source of the world’s three most powerful faiths... Religion seems to bubble from its sands.’
    Synonyms: impetus, impulse
  10. (countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
    1. A cause, a motive, etc.
      • 1712 (date written), [Alexander] Pope, “Prologue, by Mr. Pope. Spoken by Mr. Wilks.”, in [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475:
        Our Author ſhuns by vulgar Springs to move / The Hero's Glory, or the Virgin's Love; […]
    2. (obsolete) A lively piece of music.

Usage notes

Note that season names are not capitalized in modern English unless at the beginning of a sentence, for example, I can't wait for spring to arrive. Exceptions occur when the season is personified, as in Old Man Winter, is used as part of a name, as in the Winter War, or is used as a given name, as in Summer Glau. This is in contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always capitalized (Thursday or September).

Synonyms

  • (time of growth, early stages): See Thesaurus:beginning

Derived terms

  • advance spring
  • after-spring
  • afterspring
  • air spring, air-spring
  • Alice Springs
  • anti-rattle spring
  • Arlington Springs Man
  • Arlington Springs Woman
  • artesian spring
  • Augusta Springs
  • austral spring
  • autumn-spring
  • auxiliary spring
  • balance spring
  • Barton Springs salamander
  • Bay Springs
  • bedspring
  • Beijing Spring
  • Belleville spring
  • bending spring
  • Berber Spring
  • Berkeley Springs
  • Big 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
  • Carrizo Springs
  • cart spring
  • cee spring, cee-spring, C spring, c-spring
  • clock spring
  • closed spring
  • coiled spring sign
  • coil spring
  • coil spring clutch
  • ColdSpring
  • Coldspring, Cold Spring
  • Colorado Springs
  • compression spring
  • contact spring
  • Croatian Spring
  • cupped spring washer
  • Damascus Spring
  • damper spring
  • day-spring, dayspring
  • DeFuniak Springs
  • detent ball and spring
  • diaphragm spring
  • door hold-open spring
  • Double Springs
  • draw-spring, drawspring
  • driving spring
  • elliptic spring
  • Eureka Springs
  • extension spring
  • extra spring
  • farewell-to-spring
  • finger spring
  • flat spring
  • float bumper spring
  • footsteps-of-spring
  • forespring
  • forest-spring encephalitis
  • garter spring
  • gas spring
  • Glenwood Springs
  • graduated spring
  • Green Cove Springs
  • haemoglobin Constant Spring, hemoglobin Constant Spring
  • hairspring
  • hand-spring, handspring
  • harbinger-of-spring
  • headspring
  • Heber Springs
  • helical spring
  • helper spring
  • Holly Springs
  • hot spring
  • Hot Spring County
  • Hot Springs
  • Hot Springs County
  • Hot Sulphur Springs
  • hydrospring
  • Idaho Springs
  • 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
  • Lehman Springs
  • lifespring
  • locating spring
  • loop spring
  • mainspring
  • Manitou Springs
  • 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
  • Pagosa Springs
  • parabolic spring
  • Pierian Spring
  • piston spring
  • Prague Spring
  • progressively wound valve spring
  • progressive rate spring
  • progressive valve spring
  • rattle spring
  • restoring spring
  • retainer spring tool
  • retro-spring
  • return spring
  • Rocksprings
  • Russian spring-summer encephalitis
  • saddle-spring
  • salt spring
  • Saratoga Springs
  • sear spring
  • sea-spring
  • seepage spring
  • semi-elliptic spring
  • separating spring
  • Sharon Springs
  • shoe return spring
  • single rate spring
  • soda spring
  • Soda Springs
  • spiral spring
  • splayed spring
  • spreader spring
  • spring-action
  • spring ague
  • Spring and Autumn
  • spring and fall
  • spring azure
  • spring back, spring-back
  • Springbal
  • spring balance
  • Spring Bank Holiday
  • spring bar
  • spring barley
  • spring-based
  • spring baton
  • Spring Bay
  • spring beam, spring-beam
  • spring beating
  • spring beating spoon
  • spring beauty, spring-beauty
  • spring bed
  • spring beetle, spring-beetle
  • spring-bell
  • spring bevel
  • spring-biased
  • spring binder, spring-binder
  • spring-binding
  • spring-bladed
  • spring-blood
  • spring bloom
  • spring-board, springboard
  • spring bolt
  • spring booster
  • spring born
  • springborne
  • spring bow
  • spring bows
  • spring box
  • spring brake
  • spring branch, spring-branch
  • spring brass
  • spring break
  • spring breaker
  • spring bud
  • spring cabbage
  • spring cable
  • 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 clock
  • spring clutch
  • spring coach
  • spring collar
  • spring collet
  • spring compressor
  • spring conjunctivitis
  • spring constant
  • spring contractor
  • spring corn
  • spring cress
  • spring crocus
  • spring crop
  • spring crust
  • spring dart
  • Spring Day
  • spring disease
  • spring divider
  • spring drive
  • spring-driven
  • spring dwindling
  • springed
  • spring ephemeral
  • spring equation
  • spring equinox
  • spring eruption
  • springet
  • spring eye
  • spring-fed
  • spring feed
  • Springfest
  • spring festival
  • spring fever
  • spring finger
  • springfish
  • spring-fitted
  • spring-flood
  • spring floor
  • spring flower
  • spring-flowering
  • spring fly
  • spring force
  • springforger
  • springform
  • springform pan
  • spring fowl
  • spring frame
  • spring-framed
  • spring fret
  • spring frog
  • spring-froth
  • springful
  • spring garden
  • spring gathered
  • spring gauge
  • spring gentian
  • spring ginger
  • spring grass, spring-grass
  • spring green
  • spring greens
  • spring growth
  • spring gun, spring-gun
  • spring hanger
  • spring hare, spring-hare, springhare
  • spring-headed
  • spring-head, springhead
  • spring heath
  • spring heel
  • spring-heeled
  • Spring-heeled Jack
  • spring herring
  • spring hock
  • spring-hole
  • Spring Holiday
  • spring hook
  • spring house, spring-house, springhouse
  • spring in one's step
  • springish
  • spring isolator
  • spring-jointed
  • spring juices
  • spring kale
  • spring-keeper, springkeeper
  • spring-knife
  • Spring Lake
  • spring lamb
  • spring lancet
  • spring latch
  • spring lathe
  • springle
  • spring leaf
  • springless
  • springlet
  • spring lettuce
  • spring ligament
  • spring-like, springlike
  • spring lily
  • spring line settlement, springline settlement
  • spring line, springline
  • springling
  • spring-load
  • spring-loaded
  • spring-loading
  • spring-locked
  • spring lock, spring-lock, springlock
  • spring lock washer
  • spring maker
  • spring-making
  • spring-manufacturing
  • spring mattress
  • spring melt
  • spring mix
  • spring-mounted
  • spring of action
  • spring of pork
  • spring of the leaf
  • spring of the sea
  • spring of the year
  • spring of wood
  • spring onion
  • spring-operated
  • spring ophthalmia
  • spring overshoot
  • spring overturn
  • Spring Palace
  • spring pasque flower
  • spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
  • spring peering
  • spring pin
  • spring-pit
  • spring planting
  • spring plate
  • spring ploughing
  • spring-pottage
  • spring power
  • spring-powered
  • Spring Prairie
  • spring punch
  • spring rail
  • spring rate
  • spring-release
  • spring reverb
  • spring ring clasp
  • spring roll
  • spring roller
  • spring root
  • spring rope
  • spring-run fish
  • spring runoff
  • spring rye
  • spring sail
  • spring salmon
  • spring-salt
  • spring saw
  • spring scale
  • spring scalecap
  • spring seat
  • spring seed
  • spring shackle
  • spring-shaping
  • spring-shaw
  • spring shoot
  • spring shower
  • springside
  • spring sludge
  • spring snow
  • springs of life
  • spring soup
  • spring soup
  • spring sowing
  • spring sown
  • spring sown
  • spring-spawning
  • spring spike
  • springspotter
  • spring squill
  • spring stay
  • spring steel
  • spring stone
  • spring suit
  • spring suspension
  • spring swamp
  • spring sweep
  • spring tail, spring-tail, springtail
  • spring tapping
  • spring-teller
  • spring temper
  • spring-tempered
  • spring term
  • spring thaw
  • spring tide
  • spring-tide, springtide
  • spring-tight
  • spring tiller
  • spring time, spring-time, springtime
  • spring tine
  • spring-tined
  • spring tool
  • spring-tooth
  • spring training
  • spring trap
  • spring-tree
  • Spring Triangle
  • spring-type
  • spring-type brake actuator
  • spring usher
  • spring vacation
  • spring vegetable
  • spring vetchling
  • Springview
  • spring violet
  • spring wagon
  • spring wagtail
  • spring washer
  • spring watch
  • spring-watered
  • spring water, spring-water, springwater
  • spring-well
  • spring wheat
  • spring wind
  • spring windup
  • spring wood, spring-wood, springwood
  • spring work
  • springy
  • Steamboat Springs
  • steel spring
  • sulfur spring, sulphur spring
  • Sulphur Springs
  • take one's spring from
  • take one's spring out of
  • tensioning spring
  • tension spring
  • thermal spring
  • thermostatic spring choke
  • The Spring Offensive
  • The Spring of Nations
  • throttle return spring
  • torsion spring
  • trailing spring
  • truss spring steel
  • underspring
  • Union Springs
  • 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
  • Warm Springs
  • watch main spring steel
  • watch-spring
  • water-spring
  • wave spring
  • Webster Springs
  • weeping spring
  • well-spring, wellspring
  • Wessington Springs
  • White Sulphur Springs
  • zero-length spring
  • Z spring
  • aspring
  • atspring
  • bespring
  • espringal
  • Rumspringa
  • springal, springald
  • springboc, springbock, springbok
  • springe
  • spring-haas, springhaas
  • springhalt
  • springle

Translations

jump — see jump,‎ leap
time of growth, early stages — see beginning
high tide — see high tide
spring tide — see spring tide
people sharing the same origin — see race,‎ lineage
youth — see youth
shoot — see shoot
cluster of trees — see grove,‎ forest
erection of the penis — see erection
elasticity — see elasticity
elastic energy — see elastic energy
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

  • geyser
  • Hooke's law
  • seep
  • Slinky
  • vernal
  • well
Seasons in English · seasons (layout · text) · category
springsummerautumn, fallwinter

References

  • “spring, n¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • “spring, n².”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • “spring, n³.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • “spring, v¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • “spring, v².”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • “spring, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018.
  • “springen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018.

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to springe.

Noun

spring n (singular definite springet, plural indefinite spring)

  1. spring, jump, vault, leap

Declension

Declension of spring
neuter
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativespringspringetspringspringene
genitivespringsspringetsspringsspringenes
  • firspring
  • højdespring
  • længdespring
  • springavancement
  • springbane
  • springbræt
  • springkniv
  • springmadras
  • springvand
  • stangspring
  • trespring

Verb

spring

  1. imperative of springe

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sprɪŋ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Verb

spring

  1. first-person singular present indicative of springen
  2. imperative of springen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃpʁɪŋ/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

spring

  1. singular imperative of springen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of springen

Icelandic

Verb

spring

  1. inflection of springa:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

spring

  1. Alternative form of spryng

Verb

spring

  1. Alternative form of spryngen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

spring

  1. imperative of springe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spring

  1. present of springa

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sprɪŋ]

Noun

spring (plural springs)

  1. spring, springtime
  2. growth of vegetation in springtime

Verb

tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springin, simple past sprang, past participle sprung)

  1. to spring
  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

Swedish

Noun

spring n

  1. a running (back and forth)
    • 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.
    Barnen hade spring i benen
    The children had lots of energy ("running in the legs")

Declension

Declension of spring 
Uncountable
IndefiniteDefinite
Nominativespringspringet——
Genitivespringsspringets——

Verb

spring

  1. imperative of springa.
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