spring

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Other possible cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Some newer senses derived from the noun.

Verb

 * 1)  To move or burst forth.
 * 2) * , ll. 2966–7:
 * ...for swenge swat ædrum sprong forð under fexe.
 * ...for the swing, the blood from his veins sprang forth under his hair.
 * 1) To appear.
 * 2) To grow, to sprout.
 * 3)  To mature.
 * 4)  To arise, to come into existence.
 * 5)  To enliven.
 * 6)  To move with great speed and energy.
 * 7) * c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v:
 * ...into helle spring...
 * 1)  To be born, descend, or originate from
 * 2)  To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
 * 3)  To cause to spring (all senses).
 * 4)  To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
 * 5)  To breed with, to impregnate.
 * 6)  To wetten, to moisten.
 * 7)  To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
 * 8)  To go off.
 * 9)  To crack.
 * 10) * 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
 * The Edward sprang hir foremast.
 * 1)   To surprise by sudden or deft action.
 * 2) To come upon and flush out.
 * 3)  To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
 * 4)  To begin.
 * 5)  To put bad money into circulation.
 * 6) To tell, to share.
 * 7)  To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
 * 8)  To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
 * 9)  To build, to form the initial curve of.
 * 10)  To extend, to curve.
 * 11)  To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
 * 12)  To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
 * 13)  To raise an offered price.
 * 14)  To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
 * 15)  To equip with springs, especially  to equip with a suspension.
 * 16)  to inspire, to motivate.
 * 17)  To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
 * 18)  To swell with milk or pregnancy.
 * 19)  To sound, to play.
 * 20)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 21)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To go off.
 * 2)  To crack.
 * 3) * 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
 * The Edward sprang hir foremast.
 * 1)   To surprise by sudden or deft action.
 * 2) To come upon and flush out.
 * 3)  To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
 * 4)  To begin.
 * 5)  To put bad money into circulation.
 * 6) To tell, to share.
 * 7)  To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
 * 8)  To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
 * 9)  To build, to form the initial curve of.
 * 10)  To extend, to curve.
 * 11)  To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
 * 12)  To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
 * 13)  To raise an offered price.
 * 14)  To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
 * 15)  To equip with springs, especially  to equip with a suspension.
 * 16)  to inspire, to motivate.
 * 17)  To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
 * 18)  To swell with milk or pregnancy.
 * 19)  To sound, to play.
 * 20)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 21)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To extend, to curve.
 * 2)  To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
 * 3)  To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
 * 4)  To raise an offered price.
 * 5)  To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
 * 6)  To equip with springs, especially  to equip with a suspension.
 * 7)  to inspire, to motivate.
 * 8)  To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
 * 9)  To swell with milk or pregnancy.
 * 10)  To sound, to play.
 * 11)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 12)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To swell with milk or pregnancy.
 * 2)  To sound, to play.
 * 3)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 4)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To sound, to play.
 * 2)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 3)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To spend the springtime somewhere
 * 2)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.
 * 1)  To find or get enough food during springtime.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:come into being

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Maori: turupana

Etymology 2
From ; partly from, from , from ; and partly from , from , from. Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of, , , etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English , , from Old English as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare.

Noun



 * 1)  An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
 * 2)  The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
 * 5)  The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
 * 6)  a period of political liberalization and democratization
 * 7)  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)  Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
 * 9)  A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
 * 10)  The rising of the sea at high tide.
 * , the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
 * 1) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
 * 2)  A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  A race, a lineage.
 * 5)  A youth.
 * 6) A shoot, a young tree.
 * 7) A grove of trees; a forest.
 * 8)  An erection of the penis.
 * 9)  A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or  a plank or seam.
 * 10)  Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
 * 11) Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
 * 12) Elastic energy, power, or force.
 * 13) * 1697,,  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!
 * 1)  The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
 * 2)  Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
 * 3) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 4)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1)  A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A race, a lineage.
 * 4)  A youth.
 * 5) A shoot, a young tree.
 * 6) A grove of trees; a forest.
 * 7)  An erection of the penis.
 * 8)  A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or  a plank or seam.
 * 9)  Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
 * 10) Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
 * 11) Elastic energy, power, or force.
 * 12) * 1697,,  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!
 * 1)  The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
 * 2)  Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
 * 3) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 4)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1) Elastic energy, power, or force.
 * 2) * 1697,,  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!
 * 1)  The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
 * 2)  Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
 * 3) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 4)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1)  Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
 * 2) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 3)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1)  Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
 * 2) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 3)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1) A cause, a motive, etc.
 * 2)  A lively piece of music.
 * 1)  A lively piece of music.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:beginning

Translations

 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to leap, jump

Etymology
Verbal noun to.

Noun

 * , jump, vault, leap

Etymology
From, from

Noun

 * 1) a spring source of water
 * 2) an ulcer, sore, pustule

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)
 * "sv"

- Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten.