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1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   [Spring]
   
   ** English
   [en] [wikipedia] []
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [sprĭng] , [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
   *** Etymology 1
   From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [ine-pro].
   [2]
   
    - [stq]
    - [fy]
    - [nl]
    - [nds-de]
    - [de]
    - [da]
    - [sv]
    - [no]
    - [fo]
    - [is] .
   [col-bottom]
   Other possible cognates include [lt], [cu], [la], [grc], [sa].  Some newer
   senses derived from the noun.
   
   **** Verb
   [springs]
   
    1. [en]  To move or burst forth.
    2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1540 | translator=John Bellenden | author=Livy | title=History of Rome | section=Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125
   |passage=...þe wound þat was SPRINGAND with huge stremes of blude...}}
   
     1. To appear .
     2. * [Judges]
     3. * [page=4]
     4. To grow , to sprout.
     5. * [Job]
     6. * [page=61]
     7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1936 | author=w:Dale Carnegie | title=w:How to Win Friends and Influence People | page=42
   |passage=Dr.  Sigmund Freud...  says that everything you and I do SPRINGS from
   two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1974 | author=w:James Albert Michener | title=Centennial | page=338
   |passage=There was moisture in the ground, and from it SPRANG a million
   flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2006 | author=N. Roberts | title=Morrigann's Cross | section=vi
   |passage=Foxglove SPRANG tall and purple among the trees.}}
   
      1. [en]  To mature.
     1. [en]  To arise , to come  into existence .
     2. [en]  To enliven .
     3. [en]  To move  with great  speed  and energy .
     4. * [1250] , _Life of St Margaret_ , Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v: (see http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme2/tagged_data/tr323bt.html)
     5. *: ...into hell e  SPRING ...
     6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1474 | translator=William Caxton | title=Game and Playe of the Chesse | section=iii, vii, 141
   |passage=Ye kynge...  SPRANGE out of his chare and resseyuyd them
   worshipfully.}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1722 | author=w:Ambrose Philips | title=The Briton
   |passage=...the Mountain Stag, that SPRINGS<br>From Height to Height, and
   bounds along the Plains,<br>Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1827 | author=w:Clement Clarke Moore | title= [en]
   |passage=...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,<br>I SPRANG from my
   bed to see what was the matter.}}
   
     1. * [chapter=1]
     2. * [en]
     3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=April 11 2011 | journal=The Atlantic
   |passage=Reporters SPRANG to the conclusion that the speech would make
   detailed new commitments...}}
   
     1. [en]  To be born , descend , or originate  from
     2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=George McCandless | title=The ABCs of RBCs | publisher=Harvard University Press | page=7
   |passage=From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution
   of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy SPRINGS from
   this equation.}}
   
     1. [en]  To rise  in social  position  or military  rank , to be promoted .
    1. [en]  To cause  to spring (all senses).
      1. [en]  To cause  to work  or open  by sudden  application  of pressure .
      2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1625 | author=Samuel Purchas | title=Purchas His Pilgrimes | section=Vol. II, x, ix
   |passage=They SPRUNG another Mine...  wherein was placed about sixtie Barrels
   of Powder.}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1747 | title=The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
   |passage=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.}}
   
    1. [en]  To leap over.
    2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1876 | author=Matilda Leathes | title=Our village worthies; or, Stories of village life | page=112
   |passage=I SPRANG the fence, and was soon in the village street.}}
   
    1. [en]  To breed  with, to impregnate .
    2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1585 | translator=Thomas Washington | author=Nicolas De Nicolay | title=The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie... | section=Bk. IV, p. 154
   |passage=...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to SPRING their mares...}}
   
    1. [en]  To wet , to moisten .
    2. [en]  To burst  into piece s, to explode , to shatter .
    3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1698 | author=François Froger | title=A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa | page=30
   |passage=On the 22nd the mines SPRANG, and took very good effect.}}
   
    1. [en]  To go off .
    2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=April 21 2012 | journal=Sydney Morning Herald | page=5
   |passage=The whole contraption appears liable to SPRING apart at any moment.}}
   
    1. [en]  To crack .
    2. *  1582  August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
    3. *: The _Edward_   SPRANG  hir  foremast .
    4. To come upon  and flush out .
    5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1921 | title=Field and Stream | page=832
   |text=For generations of men the springer spaniel has been looked upon as the
   dog for SPRINGING pheasants in covert and finding and retrieving dead birds or
   winged runners when ordered to do so.  The properly broken dog will not chase,
   but drop to wing and shot.}}
   
    1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1940 | author=Allen A. Day | title=Dachsunds for Woodchucks | editor=Dwight Williams Huntington | work=The Game Breeder and Sportsman | page=94
   |text=[...] by the beginning of this century a still smaller breed, with a
   weight of 4 of 5 pounds and a chest measurement of around 12 inches, had come
   into being for SPRINGING rabbits.  Such, then, is a rough, quick ancestral
   picture of our modern Dachshund, and[nb...]}}
   
    1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2003-08-01 | author=Dennis Walrod | title=Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse | publisher=Stackpole Books | isbn=9780811743020
   |text=I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the
   insulating snow.  Even during the midday hours, I have often flushed grouse
   out from under the snow-bowed branches of "buck-brush," the type of
   environment where a hunter would more likely expect to SPRING a rabbit or
   two.}}
   
    1. [en]  To catch  in an illegal  act  or compromising  position .
    2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1980 | author=John Hepworth; et al | title=Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs... | page=42
   |passage=He figured that nobody would ever SPRING him, but he figured wrong.}}
   
    1. [en]  To begin .
    2. [en]  To put  bad  money  into circulation .
    3. To tell , to share .
    4. * [en ]
    5. [en]  To free  from imprisonment , especially  by facilitating  an illegal  escape .
    6. * [en]
    7. [en]  To be free  of imprisonment , especially  by illegal  escape .
    8. [en]  To build , to form  the initial  curve  of.
    9. [en]  To extend , to curve .
    10. [en]  To turn  a vessel  using  a spring  attach ed to its anchor  cable .
    11. [en]  To pay  or spend  a certain  sum , to yield .
    12. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1957 | author=w:Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | title=Over Seventy | page=137
   |passage=He wouldn't SPRING a nickel for a bag of peanuts.}}
   
    1. [en]  To raise  an offered  price .
    2. [en]  [en] .
    3. [en]  [en] .
    4. [en]  To act  as a spring : to strongly  rebound .
    5. [en]  To equip  with spring s, especially  [en]  to equip  with a suspension .
    6. [en]  to inspire , to motivate .
    7. [en]  To deform  owing  to excessive  pressure , to become  warped ; to intentionally  deform  in order to  position  and then  straighten  in place .
    8. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1873 | month=July | journal=Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine | page=503
   |passage=Don't drive it in too hard, as it will ‘ SPRING’ the plane-iron, and
   make it concave.}}
   
    1. [en]  To swell  with milk  or pregnancy .
    2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1955 | author=w:Patrick White | title=w:The Tree of Man | url=https://archive.org/details/treeofmannovel00whit/page/228/mode/1up?q=springing | chapter=15 | page=228 | publisher=Viking | location=New York
   |passage=“Gee, Dad, Nancy’s SPRINGING all right,” Ray said and paused in
   spontaneous pleasure.<br>Stan Parker came, and together they looked at their
   swelling heifer.}}
   
    1. [en]  To sound , to play .
    2. * [en]
    3. [en]  To find  or get  enough  food  during springtime .
   ***** Usage notes
   
    - The past-tense forms [en]  and [en]  are both well attested historically. In modern usage, [en]  is comparatively formal (and more often considered correct), [en]  comparatively informal. The past participle, however, is overwhelmingly [en] ; [en]  as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.
   ***** Conjugation
   [past=sprang]
   
   ***** Synonyms
   
    - [come into being]  see also Thesaurus:come into being
   ***** Derived terms
   {{col|en |hope springs eternal |outspring |overspring |respring |spring a butt
   |spring a leak |spring an arch |spring at |springel |springer |spring for
   |spring forth| spring to somebody's defence |spring-hare |spring in|spring has
   sprung |springing<!--noun, adjective--> |spring into action |spring-jack
   |spring-lobster |spring loose |spring on<!--as in "to spring a surprise on
   someone"--> |spring the luff |spring to life |spring to mind |spring-tree
   |spring up |upspring |spring out |sprung rhyme }}
   
   ***** Related terms
   {{col|en |sprang |springwort |sprung |to-spring |unspring }}
   
   ***** Translations
   [to jump]
   [to release or set free]
   
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Maori: [mi]  [a trap]
   [trans-bottom]
   [to move or burst forth]
   
    - Spanish: [es]  [spring into action]
   [trans-bottom]
   
   *** Etymology 2
   From [en]; partly from [en], from [en], from [en]; and partly from [en], from
   [en], from [en].  Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of
   [en], [en], [en], etc.  Its sense as the season, first attested in a work
   predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English [enm], [enm], from Old
   English [ang] as that word became more specifically liturgical.  Compare [en].
   
   **** Noun
   [~]
   
    1. [en]  An act  of springing : a leap , a jump .
    2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1700 | author=w:John Dryden | url=https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/cock-and-fox-1 | title=The Cock and the Fox
   |passage=The pris'ner with a SPRING from prison broke;<br>Then stretch'd his
   feather'd fans with all his might,<br>And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his
   flight.}}
   
    1. [en] [en]  The season  of the year  in temperate  region s in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plant s spring  from the ground  and into bloom  and dormant  animal s spring to life .
    2. * [XXXVIII]
    3. * [en ]
      1. [en]  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  reckon ed in other  culture s and calendar s.
      2. [en]  The three  month s of March , April , and May  in the Northern Hemisphere  and September , October , and November  in the Southern Hemisphere .
    4. [en]  The time  of something 's growth ; the early  stage s of some  process .
    5. * [1 Samuel]
    6. * [1]
      1. [en]  a period  of political  liberalization  and democratization
    7. [en]  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.
    8. [en]  Something  which spring s, springs forth, springs up , or springs back , _particularly_
      1. [en]  [en]  A spray  or body  of water  springing  from the ground .
      2. [en]  The rising  of the sea  at high tide .
      3. [en]  [en] , the especially  high  tide  shortly  after full  and new moon s.
      4. [en]  An elastic  mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat , curved , coiled ), made of flexible   material  (usually spring steel ) that exert s force  and attempt s to spring back  when bent , compress ed, or stretch ed.
      5. [en]  A line  from a vessel 's end  or side  to its anchor  cable  use d to diminish  or control  its movement .
      6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1836 | author=Frederick Marryat | title=Mr. Midshipman Easy | volume=III | page=72
   |passage=He had warped round with the SPRINGS on his cable, and had
   recommenced his fire upon the _Aurora_.}}
   
     1. [en]  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 .
     2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1769 | author=William Falconer | title=An Universal Dictionary of the Marine | section=s.v
   |passage= 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.}}
   
     1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=January 26 2007 | journal=Business Times:
   |passage=‘_Springs_’ are the ropes used on a ship that is alongside a berth to
   prevent fore and aft movements.}}
   
     1. [en]  A race , a lineage .
     2. [en]  A youth .
     3. A shoot , a young  tree .
     4. A grove  of tree s; a forest .
    1. [en]  An erection  of the penis . [en]
    2. [en]  A crack  which has sprung up  in a mast , spar , or [en]  a plank  or seam .
    3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1846 | author=Arthur Young | title=Nautical Dictionary | page=292
   |passage=A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,...  and the
   crack is called a SPRING.}}
   
    1. [en]  Springiness : an attribute  or quality  of spring ing, springing up , or springing back , _particularly_
      1. Elasticity : the property  of a body  springing back  to its original  form  after compression , stretching , etc.
      2. Elastic energy , power , or force .
      3. *  1697 , [John Dryden] , _[Virgil's]   Aeneis_ , Bk. xi, ll. 437–8: (see https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A65112.0001.001/1:20.11?rgn=div2;view=fulltext)
      4. *: Heav'ns  what a  SPRING  was in his Arm, to throw: <br> How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry  blow!
      5. * [1=en]
    2. [en]  The source  from which an action  or supply  of something  springs .
    3. * [Psalms]
    4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1693 | publisher=Richard Bentley | title=The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism... | section=Sermon 1
   |passage=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.}}
   
    1. * [en ]
    2. * [page=1]
    3. [en]  Something  which cause s other s or another  to spring  forth or spring  into action , _particularly_
      1. A cause , a motive , etc.
      2. * [chapter=Prologue]
      3. [en]  A lively  piece  of music .
      4. * [en]
   ***** Usage notes
   [season name spelling]
   
   ***** Synonyms
   
    - [time of growth, early stages]  _See_  Thesaurus:beginning
   ***** Derived terms
   {{col|en |[en] ([Pseudacris crucifer]) |[Arlington Springs Man] |[Arlington
   Springs Man] |[Beijing Spring] |[Berber Spring] |[Croatian Spring] |[Damascus
   Spring] |[Operation Spring Awakening]|Athol Springs|Laurel Springs|[Operation
   Spring Cleanup] |[Operation Spring of Youth] |[Prague Spring] |[Springbal]
   |[Springfest] |[Spring of Nations] |[Spring Palace]|spring destroying
   angel|Vauclusian spring |[The Spring Offensive] |advance spring |after-spring
   |afterspring |Ainsworth Hot Springs |air spring,air-spring |Alice Springs
   |Altamonte Springs |Anderson Springs |anti-rattle spring|early spring orchis
   |arc spring |artesian spring |Aspen Springs |Athol Springs |Augusta Springs
   |austral spring |autumn-spring |auxiliary spring |balance spring |Banff
   Springs physa |Barton Springs salamander |Bay Springs |Bear Valley Springs
   |bedspring |Belleville spring |bending spring |Bennett Springs |Berkeley
   Springs |Big Spring |boiling spring |Bonita Springs |border spring |Borrego
   Springs |bow spring |box spring,box-spring |Boyes Hot Springs |brine spring
   |brush spring |buckling spring |Caballine spring |California Hot Springs
   |Cambridge Springs defence,Cambridge Springs defense |cantilever spring |card
   spring |Carrizo Springs |Carter Springs |cart spring |Castle Hot Springs |cee
   spring,cee-spring,C spring,c-spring |Clearspring |clock spring |closed spring
   |coiled spring sign |coil spring |coil spring clutch |Coldspring,Cold Spring
   |Cold Springs |Colorado Springs |compression spring |contact spring |Coral
   Springs |Crescent Springs |cupped spring washer |damper spring
   |day-spring,dayspring |DeFuniak Springs |Desert Hot Springs |detent ball and
   spring |Diamond Springs |diaphragm spring |door hold-open spring |Double
   Springs |draw-spring,drawspring |driving spring |elliptic spring |Eureka
   Springs |Excelsior Springs |extension spring |extra spring |farewell-to-spring
   |Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente |finger spring |Fish Springs |flat spring
   |float bumper spring |fool's spring |footsteps-of-spring |forespring
   |forest-spring encephalitis |full of the joys of spring |garter spring |gas
   spring |Geuda Springs |Glenwood Springs |graduated spring |Green Cove Springs
   |Greene Springs |Green 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 |Indian Springs
   |innerspring |inside spring caliper |Iron Springs |Jacumba Hot Springs |jagger
   spring |Jesus spring |karstic spring |karst spring |Kesling spring |laminated
   spring |land 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 |Navajo Springs |negative spring |Newberry Springs |no spring
   chicken |offspring |ofspring |Oliver Springs |one swallow does not a spring
   make |one swallow does not make a spring |one swallow doesn't a spring make
   |one swallow doesn't make a spring |open spring |outside spring caliper
   |outspring |overload spring |paddle spring |Pagosa Springs |Palm Springs
   |parabolic spring |Peach Springs |Pierian spring |Pierian Spring |piston
   spring |progressively wound valve spring |progressive rate spring |progressive
   valve spring |proxigean spring tide |rare spring-sedge |rattle spring |recoil
   spring |restoring spring |retainer spring tool |retro-spring |return spring
   |Richland Springs |Rocksprings |Running Springs |Russian spring-summer
   encephalitis |saddle-spring |salt spring |Sandy Springs |Santa Fe Springs
   |Saratoga Springs |sear spring |sea-spring |seepage spring |semi-elliptic
   spring |separating spring |Sharon Springs |Shingle Springs |shoe return spring
   |Silver Springs |single rate spring |soda spring |Soda Springs |Spanish
   Springs |spiral spring |splayed spring |spreader spring |spring-action |spring
   ague |Spring and Autumn |spring and fall |spring avens |spring azure |spring
   back,spring-back |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-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 clean |spring-clean |spring
   cleaning |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 dance |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 |spring festival
   |spring fever |spring field cricket |spring finger |springfish |spring-fitted
   |spring-flood |spring floor |spring flower |spring-flowering |spring fly
   |spring force |springforger |springform |springform pan |spring forward, fall
   back |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 Grove |spring growth |spring gun,spring-gun |spring hammer |spring
   hanger |spring hare,spring-hare,springhare |spring has sprung |spring-headed
   |spring-head,springhead |spring heath |spring heel |spring-heeled
   |Spring-heeled Jack,spring-heeled Jack |spring herring |spring hock
   |spring-hole |Spring Holiday |spring hook |spring horse |spring
   house,spring-house,springhouse |spring in one's step |springish |spring
   isolator |spring jack |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-loaded camming device
   |spring-loaded mode |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 net |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
   padlock |spring parsley |spring pasque flower |spring peering |spring pin
   |spring-pit |spring planting |spring plate |spring ploughing |spring pocket
   |spring pole |spring-pottage |spring power |spring-powered |Spring Prairie
   |spring punch |spring quillwort |spring rail |spring rate |spring-release
   |spring reverb |spring rider |spring ring clasp |spring rocker |spring roll
   |spring roller |spring root |spring rope |spring-run fish |spring runoff
   |spring rye |spring saddle |spring sail |spring salamander |spring salmon
   |spring-salt |spring saw |spring scale |spring scalecap |spring searcher
   |spring seat |spring seed |spring shackle |spring-shaping |spring-shaw |spring
   shoot |spring shower |springside |spring sludge |spring snow |spring snowflake
   |springs of life |spring soup |spring sowing |spring sown |spring-spawning
   |spring spike |springspotter |spring squill |spring stay |spring steel |spring
   stone |spring stud |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 valve |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
   |Stallion Springs |Steamboat Springs |steel spring |sulfur spring,sulphur
   spring |Sulphur Springs |Sutherland Springs |take one's spring from |take
   one's spring out of |tensioning spring |tension spring |thermal spring
   |thermostatic spring choke |throttle return spring |torsion spring |trailing
   spring |truss spring steel |underspring |Union Springs |upholstery coil spring
   |uprighting spring |upspring |up what spring |Valley Springs |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 |watchspring |water-spring |wave spring |Webster Springs |weeping
   spring |well-spring,wellspring |Wessington Springs |White Sulphur Springs
   |Winter Springs |zero-length spring |Z spring }}
   
   ***** Related terms
   {{col|en |aspring |atspring |bespring |espringal |rumspringa
   |springal,springald |springboc,springbock,springbok<!--from Cape Dutch-->
   |springe |spring-haas,springhaas |springhalt |springle }}
   
   ***** Translations
   [jump]
   [season between winter and summer in temperate climates] {{multitrans|data=
   
    - Abkhaz: [ab] , [old spelling]  [ab] , [ab] , [old spelling]  [ab]
    - Adyghe: [ady]
    - Afrikaans: [af]
    - Albanian: [sq]
    - Amharic: [am]
    - Arabic: [ar]
    - Aramaic:
    - Armenian: [hy]
    - Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
    - Assamese: [as]
    - Asturian: [ast]
    - Atayal: [tay]
    - Avar: [av]
    - Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
    - Bashkir: [ba]
    - Basque: [eu]
    - Belarusian: [be] ; [adverb, in spring]  [be] , [be]
    - Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
    - Bikol Central: [bcl]
    - Breton: [br]
    - Brunei Malay: [kxd]
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my] , [my] , [my]
    - Buryat: [bua]
    - Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
    - Catalan: [ca]
    - Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm] , [tzm]
    - Chechen: [ce]
    - Cherokee: [chr]
    - Chinese:
    - Chuvash: [cv] , [cv]
    - Classical Mandaic: [myz]
    - Coptic: [cop]
    - Cornish: [kw]
    - Crimean Tatar: [crh]
    - Czech: [cs] , [dated] / [poetic]  [cs]
    - Danish: [da] , [da]
    - Dhivehi:  [dv]
    - Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
    - Dzongkha:  [dz]
    - Erzya: [myv]
    - Esperanto: [eo]
    - Estonian: [et]
    - Even: [eve]
    - Evenki: [evn]
    - Faroese: [fo]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - French: [fr]
    - Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
    - Galician: [gl]
    - Georgian: [ka]
    - German: [de] , [de] , [dated] / [poetic]  [de] , [de] , [de]
    - Greek: [el] , [archaic]  [el]
    - Greenlandic: [kl] , [old orthography]  [kl]
    - Guaraní: [gn] , [gn] , [gn]
    - Gujarati: [gu]
    - Hebrew: [he]
    - Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
    - Hungarian: [hu]
    - Hunsrik: [hrx]
    - Icelandic: [is]
    - Ido: [io]
    - Indonesian: [id]
    - Ingrian: [izh]
    - Ingush: [inh]
    - Interlingua: [ia]
    - Irish: [ga]
    - Italian: [it]
    - Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
    - Jeju: [jje]
    - Kabyle: [kab]
    - Kalmyk: [xal]
    - Kannada: [kn]
    - Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
    - Karelian: [krl]
    - Kashmiri: [ks] , [ks]
    - Kazakh: [kk]
    - Khakas: [kjh]
    - Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
    - Khmer: [km]
    - Klamath-Modoc: [kla]
    - Komi-Permyak: [koi]
    - Korean: [ko] , [ko]
    - Kurdish:
    - Kyrgyz: [ky]
    - Ladin:
    - Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
    - Latin: [la]
    - Latvian: [lv]
    - Lezgi: [lez]
    - Ligurian: [lij]
    - Lithuanian: [lt]
    - Livonian: [liv]
    - Louisiana Creole French: [lou]
    - Low German:
    - Luxembourgish: [lb]
    - Macedonian: [mk]
    - Malagasy: [mg]
    - Malay: [ms] , [ms]
    - Malayalam: [ml]
    - Maltese: [mt]
    - Manchu: [mnc]
    - Manx: [gv]
    - Maori: [mi] , [mi]
    - Marathi: [mr]
    - Mari:
    - Middle English: [enm]
    - Middle Korean: [okm]
    - Mingrelian: [xmf]
    - Mirandese: [mwl]
    - Mòcheno: [mhn]
    - Moksha: [mdf]
    - Mongolian:
    - Montagnais: [moe]
    - Muong: [mtq] , [mtq]
    - Nanai: [gld]
    - Navajo: [nv]
    - Nivkh: [niv]
    - Nogai: [nog]
    - Norman: [nrf]  [Jersey] , [nrf]  [Jersey] , [nrf]  [continental Normandy]
    - Northern Mansi: [mns-nor]  [mns-nor]
    - Norwegian:
    - Occitan: [oc]
    - Odia: [or]
    - Old Church Slavonic:
    - Old East Slavic: [orv]
    - Old English: [ang]
    - Old French: [fro]
    - Old Norse: [non]
    - Oromo: [om]
    - Ossetian: [os]
    - Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
    - Pashto: [ps]
    - Persian:
    - Plautdietsch: [pdt]
    - Polabian: [pox]
    - Polish: [pl]
    - Portuguese: [pt]
    - Punjabi:
    - Romani: [rom]
    - Romanian: [ro]
    - Romansch: [rm]
    - Russian: [ru]
    - Sami:
    - Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
    - Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
    - Saterland Frisian: [stq]
    - Scots: [sco]  [Shetlandic]
    - Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
    - Serbo-Croatian:
    - Shor: [cjs]
    - Sicilian: [scn]
    - Sikkimese: [sip]
    - Sindhi: [sd]
    - Sinhalese: [si]
    - Slovak: [sk]
    - Slovene: [sl]
    - Somali: [so]
    - Sorbian:
    - Southern Altai: [alt]
    - Southern Ohlone: [css]
    - Spanish: [es]
    - Swahili: [sw] , [sw] , [sw] , [sw]
    - Swedish: [sv]
    - Tagalog: [tl]
    - Tajik: [tg]
    - Talysh: [tly]
    - Tamil: [ta]
    - Tat: [ttt]
    - Tatar: [tt]
    - Tày: [tyz] , [tyz]
    - Telugu: [te] , [te]
    - Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
    - Tibetan: [bo]
    - Tlingit: [tli]
    - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
    - Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
    - Udi: [udi]
    - Udmurt: [udm]
    - Ukrainian: [uk]
    - Ulch: [ulc]
    - Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
    - Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
    - Uzbek: [uz]
    - Venetan: [vec]
    - Veps: [vep]
    - Vietnamese: [vi]  ( [vi] ), [vi]  ( [vi] )
    - Vilamovian: [wym]
    - Volapük: [vo]
    - Võro: [vro]
    - Votic: [vot]
    - Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
    - Welsh: [cy]
    - West Frisian: [fy] , [fy] , [fy]
    - Winnebago: [win]
    - Wolof: [wo]
    - Xhosa: [xh]
    - Yaghnobi: [yai]
    - Yakut: [sah]
    - Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi]
    - Yoruba: [yo] , [yo]
    - Yup'ik: [esu]
    - Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
    - Zhuang: [za]
    - Zulu: [zu]
   [trans-bottom]
   [period from vernal equinox to summer solstice]
   
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
    - Klamath-Modoc: [kla]
    - Russian: [ru]
    - Yiddish: [yi]
   [trans-bottom]
   [the three months March to May (N.  Hem.) or September to November (S.  Hem.)]
   
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Hawaiian: [haw]
    - Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
    - Klamath-Modoc: [kla]
    - Maori: [mi] , [mi]
    - Russian: [ru]
    - Yiddish: [yi]
    - Zazaki: [zza]
   [trans-bottom]
   [time of growth, early stages]
   [high tide]
   [spring tide]
   [water springing from the ground]
   
    - Afrikaans: [af]
    - Albanian: [sq]
    - Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
    - Aragonese: [an]
    - Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
    - Assamese: [as] , [as]
    - Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
    - Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
    - Atong (India): [aot]
    - Avar: [av]
    - Azerbaijani: [az]
    - Baluchi: [bal]
    - Bashkir: [ba]
    - Basque: [eu]
    - Belarusian: [be] , [be]
    - Bikol Central: [bcl]
    - Breton: [br]  eien, [br] , [br]
    - Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
    - Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
    - Cebuano: [ceb]
    - Chinese:
    - Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
    - Czech: [cs] , [cs]
    - Danish: [da]
    - Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
    - Eastern Bontoc: [ebk] , [ebk]
    - Esperanto: [eo]
    - Estonian: [et] , [et] , [et]
    - Faroese: [fo]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Franco-Provençal: [frp]
    - French: [fr]
    - Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] ,  [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
    - Garo: [grt]
    - Georgian: [ka]
    - German: [de]
    - Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
    - Hawaiian: [haw]
    - Hebrew: [he] , [he]
    - Higaonon: [mba]
    - Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
    - Hungarian: [hu]
    - Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
    - Ido: [io]
    - Ilocano: [ilo]
    - Indonesian: mata  air
    - Interlingua: [ia]
    - Irish: [ga]
    - Italian: [it] , [it]
    - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]  [hot spring, spa]
    - Kashaya: [kju]
    - Kazakh: [kk]
    - Korean: [ko]
    - Kurdish:
    - Kyrgyz: [ky]
    - Lao: [lo]
    - Latgalian: [ltg]
    - Latin: [la] , [la]
    - Latvian: [lv]
    - Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
    - Lubuagan Kalinga: [knb]
    - Luxembourgish: [lb]
    - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
    - Malay: [ms]
    - Malayalam: [ml]
    - Maltese: [mt] , [mt]
    - Manchu: [mnc]
    - Mansaka: [msk]
    - Maori: [mi] , [mi]  [archaic] , [mi]
    - Meänkieli: [fit]
    - Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
    - Minangkabau: [min]
    - Mòcheno: [mhn]
    - Mongolian:
    - Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
    - Norman: [nrf]  [Jersey]
    - Norwegian:
    - Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
    - Ojibwe: [oj]
    - Old French: [fro]
    - Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
    - Persian:
    - Phoenician: [phn]
    - Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
    - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
    - Quechua: [qu]
    - Romani: [rom]
    - Romanian: [ro]
    - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
    - Samoan: [sm] , [sm]
    - Sanskrit: [sa]
    - Sardinian: [sc]
    - Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
    - Serbo-Croatian:
    - Shan: [shn]
    - Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
    - Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
    - Slovene: [sl]
    - Southern Kalinga: [ksc]
    - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
    - Swahili: [sw]
    - Swedish: [sv]
    - Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
    - Tahitian: [ty]
    - Tajik: [tg] , [tg]  [archaic]
    - Tarifit: [rif]
    - Tatar: [tt]
    - Thai: [th]
    - Tibetan: [bo]
    - Tocharian B: [txb]
    - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
    - Turkmen: [tk]
    - Tuwali Ifugao: [ifk] , [ifk] , [ifk]
    - Ugaritic: [uga]
    - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
    - Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
    - Uyghur: [ug]
    - Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
    - Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
    - Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa] , [wa]  [in place names]
    - Waray-Waray: [war]
    - Welsh: [cy]
    - West Frisian: [fy]
    - Woiwurrung: [wyi]
    - Yaghnobi: [yai]
    - Yakut: [sah]
    - Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
    - Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
   [trans-bottom]
   [device made of flexible material]
   
    - Abkhaz: [ab]
    - Afrikaans: [af]
    - Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
    - Armenian: [hy]
    - Azerbaijani: [az]
    - Basque: [eu]
    - Belarusian: [be]
    - Bengali: [bn]
    - Breton: [br]
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
    - Chechen: [ce]
    - Chinese:
    - Czech: [cs]
    - Danish: [da]
    - Dutch: [nl]
    - Esperanto: [eo]
    - Estonian: [et]
    - Faroese: [fo]
    - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
    - French: [fr]
    - Galician: [gl]
    - Georgian: [ka]
    - German: [de] , [de]
    - Greek: [el]
    - Gujarati: [gu]
    - Hebrew: [he]
    - Hindi: [hi]
    - Hungarian: [hu]
    - Icelandic: [is] , [is]
    - Indonesian: [id] , [id]
    - Interlingua: [ia]
    - Italian: [it]
    - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
    - Kazakh: [kk]
    - Khmer: [km]
    - Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
    - Lao: [lo] , [lo]
    - Latgalian: [ltg]
    - Latvian: [lv]
    - Lithuanian: [lt]
    - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
    - Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
    - Maltese: [mt]
    - Maori: [mi] , [mi]  [of a trap] , [mi]  [of a trap] , [mi]
    - Mongolian:
    - Nepali: [ne]
    - Norwegian:
    - Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
    - Persian:
    - Polish: [pl]
    - Portuguese: [pt]
    - Romanian: [ro]
    - Russian: [ru] , [ru]
    - Serbo-Croatian:
    - Shan: [shn] , [shn]
    - Slovak: [sk]
    - Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
    - Sorbian:
    - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]  [_sprin_] , [es]  [Americas]
    - Swahili: [sw]
    - Swedish: [sv]
    - Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
    - Tamil: [ta]
    - Thai: [th]
    - Tibetan: [bo]
    - Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
    - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
    - Vietnamese: [vi]
    - Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
    - West Frisian: [fy]
    - Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
   [trans-bottom]
   [nautical: line from an end or side to the anchor cable]
   
    - Finnish: [fi]
   [trans-bottom]
   [nautical: line from an end to another vessel or mooring to limit surging]
   
    - Dutch: [nl]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Portuguese: [pt]  [Brazil] , [pt]
    - Russian: [ru]
    - Spanish: [es]
   [trans-bottom]
   [people sharing the same origin]
   [youth]
   [shoot]
   [cluster of trees]
   [erection of the penis]
   [nautical: crack or fissure in a mast or yard]
   
    - Finnish: [fi]
   [trans-bottom]
   [elasticity]
   [elastic energy]
   [source of an action or a supply]
   
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Greek: [el]
    - Portuguese: [pt]
    - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
    - Spanish: [es]
   [trans-bottom]
   [any active power]
   
    - Bulgarian: [bg]
    - Finnish: [fi]
    - Russian: [ru]
   }}<!-- close [multitrans] --> [trans-bottom]
   [checktrans-top]
   
    - French: [fr]  < !-- Was: rope on a boat -->
    - Georgian: [ka]
    - German: [de]  < !-- Was: rope on a boat -->
   [trans-bottom]
   
   **** Verb
   [en-verb]
   
    1. [en] [en]  To spend  the springtime  somewhere .
    2. * [en]
    3. * [en]
    4. * [en]
    5. * [en]
    6. * [en]
    7. * [en]
   ***** Translations
   [to spend the springtime]
   
    - Portuguese: [pt]
   [trans-bottom]
   
   *** See also
   
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
    - [en]
   [table:seasons/en]
   
   *** References
   
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=spring]
    - [entry=springen]
   [en] [en]
   
   ** Afrikaans
   
   *** Etymology
   From [af].
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [af]
   *** Verb
   [af-verb]
   
    1. to leap , jump
   **** Derived terms
   
    - [af]
   ** Danish
   
   *** Etymology
   Verbal noun to [da].
   
   *** Noun
   [et]
   
    1. [da]  [en] , jump , vault , leap
   **** Declension
   [et]
   
   **** Related terms
   {{col4|da |firspring |højdespring |længdespring |springavancement |springbane
   |springbræt |springkniv |springmadras |springvand |stangspring |trespring}}
   
   *** Verb
   [da]
   
    1. [da]
   ** Dutch
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [nl]
    - [nl]
    - [nl]
   *** Verb
   [nl]
   
    1. [nl]
   ** German
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [de]
    - [de]
   *** Verb
   [de]
   
    1. [de]
    2. [de]  [de]
   ** Icelandic
   
   *** Verb
   [is]
   
    1. [is]
   ** Middle English
   
   *** Etymology 1
   
   **** Noun
   [enm]
   
    1. [enm]
   *** Etymology 2
   
   **** Verb
   [enm]
   
    1. [enm]
   ** North Frisian
   
   *** Alternative forms
   
    - [frr]
   *** Etymology
   From [frr].
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [frr]
   *** Verb
   [frr]
   
    1. [frr]  to jump , leap
   **** Conjugation
   [inf_2=springen] [inf_2=springen]
   
   ** Norwegian Bokmål
   
   *** Verb
   [nb]
   
    1. [nb]
   ** Norwegian Nynorsk
   
   *** Verb
   [nn]
   
    1. [nn]
   ** Old English
   
   *** Etymology
   From [ang], from [ang]
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [spring]
   *** Noun
   [m]
   
    1. a spring  [source of water]
    2. an ulcer , sore , pustule
   **** Declension
   [spring]
   
   **** Derived terms
   
    - [ang]
    - [ang]
   **** Descendants
   
    - [enm]
   [ang]
   
   ** Scots
   
   *** Pronunciation
   
    - [sco]
   *** Noun
   [sco-noun]
   
    1. [en] , springtime
    2. growth  of vegetation  in springtime
   *** Verb
   [sco]
   
    1. to [en]
    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
   [sco]
   
   ** Swedish
   
   *** Noun
   [n]
   
    1. a running  (back and forth)
    2. *  1918 , _Goss-skolan i Plumfield (see https://runeberg.org/plumfield/0158.html) _ , the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, _吴语: Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys_  (1871)
    3. *: {{ quote | sv | _Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när   SPRINGET  och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten._
   |translation=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.}}
   
   **** Declension
   [2=springet]
   
   *** Verb
   [sv]
   
    1. [sv]
   *** References
   
    - [so]
    - [saol]
    - [saob]