Definition of Spring

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Spring

To leap; to bound; to jump.

To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.

To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

To grow; to prosper.

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

A leap; a bound; a jump.

A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.

Elastic power or force.

An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.

Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

A race; lineage.

A youth; a springal.

A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.

The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

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Spring Quotations

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring Translations

spring in Afrikaans is lente, bron
spring in Dutch is opborrelen, opwellen, ontspringen
spring in Italian is piuma, sorgente, abbrivo, saltare, slancio, fonte
spring in Latin is ver
spring in Portuguese is nascente, primavera, mola
spring in Spanish is saltar, resorte, carrera, muelle, venera, brincar

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