spring
verb
[ sprɪŋ ]
• move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards.
• "I sprang out of bed"
• originate or arise from.
• "madness and creativity could spring from the same source"
Similar:
originate from,
have its origins in,
derive from,
arise from,
stem from,
emanate from,
proceed from,
start from,
issue from,
evolve from,
come from,
• (especially of wood) become warped or split.
• pay for.
• "don't spring for the album until you've heard it"
• come upon (an illicit activity or its perpetrator).
• "our science teacher sprung me acting the goat"
spring
noun
• the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November.
• "in spring the garden is a feast of blossom"
• an elastic device, typically a helical metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape when released, used chiefly to exert constant tension or absorb movement.
• a sudden jump upwards or forwards.
• "with a sudden spring, he leapt on to the table"
• a place where water or oil wells up from an underground source, or the basin or flow formed in such a way.
• "the well is fed by mountain springs"
Similar:
well head,
source,
spa,
geyser,
hot spring,
thermal spring,
sulphur spring,
well,
wellspring,
fount,
• an upward curvature of a ship's deck planking from the horizontal.
• a hawser laid out diagonally aft from a ship's bow or forward from a ship's stern and secured to a fixed point in order to prevent movement or assist manoeuvring.
• a flock of teal.
• "a spring of teal follows and we listen as they pass"
Origin:
Old English spring (noun), springan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German springen . Early use in the senses ‘head of a well’ and ‘rush out in a stream’ gave rise to the figurative use ‘originate’.
