What is "spring"

Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. i. [imp. Sprang (spr[a^]ng) or Sprung (spr[u^]ng); p. p. Sprung; p. pr. & vb. n. Springing.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. spe`rchesqai to hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle.]

1. To leap; to bound; to jump.

   The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
   --Philips.

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

   And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof.
   --Dryden.

3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

   Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
   --Otway.

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

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

6. 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.

   Till well nigh the day began to spring.
   --Chaucer.

   To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
   --Job xxxviii. 2

7. Do not blast my springing hopes.
   --Rowe.

   O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
   --Pope.

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

   [They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
   --Milton.

8. To grow; to thrive; to prosper.

   What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring?
   --Dryden.

   To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap.

   To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.

   To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.

   To spring on or To spring upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.

Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. t.

1. 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.

2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.

   She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
   --Dryden.

   The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
   --Swift.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison. [colloquial]

   To spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.

   To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak.

   To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.

   To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman.

   To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel.
   --Mar. Dict.

   To spring a mast or To spring a spar (Naut.), to strain it so that it is unserviceable.

Spring \Spring\, n. [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See Spring, v. i.]

1. A leap; a bound; a jump.

   The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
   --Dryden.

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

3. Elastic power or force.

   Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
   --Dryden.

4. 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.

   Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms are the spiral spring (Fig. a), the coil spring (Fig. b), the elliptic spring (Fig. c), the half-elliptic spring (Fig. d), the volute spring, the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring, etc.

5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. ``All my springs are in thee.''
   --Ps. lxxxvii. 7. ``A secret spring of spiritual joy.''
   --Bentley. ``The sacred spring whence right and honor streams.''
   --Sir J. Davies.

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

   Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
   --Pope.

7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as:

   1. A race; lineage. [Obs.]
      --Chapman.

   2. A youth; a springal. [Obs.]
      --Spenser.

   3. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.]
      --Spenser. Milton.

8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.]
   --Beau. & Fl.

9. 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 green lap of the new-come spring.''
   --Shak.

   Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer solstice, about June 21st.

10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life. ``The spring of the day.''
    --1 Sam. ix. 26.

    O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.
    --Shak.

11. (Naut.)

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

    2. 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. Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air, Boiling, etc. Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel. Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box. See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n. Spring beauty.

       1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime.

       2. (Zo["o]l.) A small, elegant American butterfly ( Erora l[ae]ta) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.

          Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity.

          Spring beetle (Zo["o]l.), a snapping beetle; an elater.

          Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of mechanism, in which the spring is contained.

          Spring fly (Zo["o]l.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it appears in the spring.

          Spring grass (Bot.), vernal grass. See under Vernal.

          Spring gun, a firearm discharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved.

          Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame.

          Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

          Spring lock, a lock that fastens with a spring.

          Spring mattress, a spring bed.

          Spring of an arch (Arch.) See Springing line of an arch, under Springing.

          Spring of pork, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder. [Obs.]
          --Nares.

          Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me.
          --Gayton.

          Spring pin (Locomotive Engines), an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.

          Spring rye, a kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.

          Spring stay (Naut.), a preventer stay, to assist the regular one.
          --R. H. Dana, Jr.

          Spring tide, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See Tide.

          Spring wagon, a wagon in which springs are interposed between the body and the axles to form elastic supports.

          Spring wheat, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn.

Old English springan "to leap, burst forth, fly up; spread, grow," (class III strong verb; past tense sprang, past participle sprungen), from Proto-Germanic *sprengan (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian springa, Middle Dutch springhen, Dutch Related: springen, Old Saxon and Old High German springan, German springen), from PIE *sprengh-, nasalized form of root *spergh- "to move, hasten, spring" (cognates: Sanskrit sprhayati "desires eagerly," Greek sperkhesthai "to hurry").\n

\nIn Middle English, it took on the role of causal sprenge, from Old English sprengan (as still in to spring a trap, etc.). Meaning "to cause to work or open," by or as by a spring mechanism, is from 1828.Meaning "to announce suddenly" (usually with on) is from 1876. Meaning "to release" (from imprisonment) is from 1900. Slang meaning "to pay" (for a treat, etc.) is recorded from 1906.

"source of a stream or river, flow of water rising to the surface of the earth from below," Old English spring "spring, source, sprinkling," from spring (v.) on the notion of the water "bursting forth" from the ground. Rarely used alone in Old English, appearing more often in compounds, such as wyllspring "wellspring," espryng "water spring." Figurative sense of "source or origin of something" is attested from early 13c. Cognate with Old High German sprung "source of water," Middle High German sprinc "leap, jump; source of water."

"act of springing or leaping," late 14c., from spring (v.). The elastic wire coil that returns to its shape when stretched is so called from early 15c., originally in clocks and watches. As a device in carriages, coaches, etc., it is attested from 1660s.

season following winter, the vernal season, c.1400, earlier springing time (late 14c.), which replaced Lent, the Old English word. From spring (v.); also see spring (n.3). The notion is of the "spring of the year," when plants begin to rise (as in spring of the leaf, 1520s), from the noun in its old sense of "action or time of rising or springing into existence." It was used of sunrise, the waxing of the moon, rising tides, etc.; compare 14c. spring of dai "sunrise," spring of mone "moonrise," late Old English spring "carbuncle, pustule."\n

\nOther Germanic languages tend to take words for "fore" or "early" as their roots for the season name (Danish voraar, Dutch voorjaar, literally "fore-year;" German Frühling, from Middle High German vrueje "early"). In 15c. English, the season also was prime-temps, after Old French prin tans, tamps prim (French printemps, which replaced primevère 16c. as the common word for spring), from Latin tempus primum, literally "first time, first season."\n

\nSpring fever is from 1843 as "surge of romantic feelings;" earlier of a type of disease or head-cold prevalent in certain places in spring; Old English had lenctenadle. First record of spring cleaning in the domestic sense is by 1843 (in ancient Persia, the first month, corresponding to March-April, was Adukanaiša, which apparently means "Irrigation-Canal-Cleaning Month;" Kent, p.167). Spring chicken "small roasting chicken" (usually 11 to 14 weeks) is recorded from 1780; transferred sense of "young person" first recorded 1906. Baseball spring training attested by 1889, earlier of militias, etc.

n. 1 A leap; a bound; a jump. 2 (context countable English) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer. 3 (context countable English) meteorology, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern. vb. 1 To jump or leap. 2 To pass over by leaping. 3 To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc. 4 (context slang English) To release or set free, especially from prison. 5 To come into being, often quickly or sharply.

1. n. the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" [syn: springtime]

2. a natural flow of ground water [syn: fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring]

3. a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"

4. a light springing movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, saltation, bound, bounce]

5. the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length [syn: give, springiness]

6. a point at which water issues forth

7. [also: sprung, sprang]

1. v. move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound]

2. develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" [syn: form, take form, take shape]

3. spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]

4. produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife"

5. develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"

6. produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"

7. [also: sprung, sprang]

Șpring is a commune located in Alba County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Carpen (Árvádtanya), Carpenii de Sus (Gyertyános), Cunța (Konca), Drașov (Drassó), Șpring and Vingard (Vingárd).

Spring is one of the four conventional temperate seasons, following winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it will be autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. At the spring equinox, days are approximately 12 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Subtropical and tropical areas have climates better described in terms of other seasons, e.g. dry or wet, monsoonal or cyclonic. Often, cultures have locally defined names for seasons which have little equivalence to the terms originating in Europe.

A '''spring '''is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface. It is a component of the hydrosphere.

In geometry, a spring is a surface in the shape of a coiled tube, generated by sweeping a circle about the path of a helix.

Spring is an 1894 oil painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, currently in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.

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Spring were a Leicester-based British progressive rock band that represented the early 1970s progressive rock movement.

A one-shot band, it recorded only one album in its career, a self-titled LP released in 1971. Spring's music is notable for the use of the mellotron with three of the its five members credited with playing that instrument on the album.

Spring (Vesna), Op. 20, is a single-movement cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra, written by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1902.

The work was finished after the famous Second Piano Concerto. Rachmaninoff intended to revise the cantata's orchestration but never did so.

Spring is the debut full-length album by Cyann & Ben. It was released on 17 February 2004 on Gooom Disquesin France and Locust Music in North America.

A spring is an elastic object used to store mechanical energy. Springs are usually made out of spring steel. There are a large number of spring designs; in everyday usage the term often refers to coil springs.

Small springs can be wound from pre-hardened stock, while larger ones are made from annealed steel and hardened after fabrication. Some non-ferrous metals are also used including phosphor bronze and titanium for parts requiring corrosion resistance and beryllium copper for springs carrying electrical current (because of its low electrical resistance).

When a coil spring is compressed or stretched slightly from rest, the force it exerts is approximately proportional to its change in length (this approximation breaks down for larger deflections). The rate or spring constant of a spring is the change in the force it exerts, divided by the change in deflection of the spring. That is, it is the gradient of the force versus deflection curve. An extension or compression spring has units of force divided by distance, for example lbf/in or N/m. Torsion springs have units of torque divided by angle, such as N·m/ rad or ft·lbf/degree. The inverse of spring rate is compliance, that is: if a spring has a rate of 10 N/mm, it has a compliance of 0.1 mm/N. The stiffness (or rate) of springs in parallel is additive, as is the compliance of springs in series.

Depending on the design and required operating environment, any material can be used to construct a spring, so long as the material has the required combination of rigidity and elasticity: technically, a wooden bow is a form of spring.

Spring is a discontinued project/experimental microkernel-based object oriented operating system developed at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Using technology substantially similar to concepts developed in the Mach kernel, Spring concentrated on providing a richer programming environment supporting multiple inheritance and other features. Spring was also more cleanly separated from the operating systems it would host, divorcing it from its Unix roots and even allowing several OSes to be run at the same time. Development faded out in the mid-1990s, but several ideas and some code from the project was later re-used in the Java programming language libraries and the Solaris operating system.

Spring was a Flemish television soap made by Studio 100 for children's channel Ketnet. Six seasons were taped between 2002 and 2007 during the summer period.

Spring (known outside of the United States and in subsequent reissues as American Spring) is the first and only album by American pop duo American Spring (then known as "Spring") released in July 1972. Largely ignored at the time of its release, it has now come to be seen as a valuable collector's item due to Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys' participation.

Spring is the third in a comprehensive four-EP collection released by Jon Foreman, the singer/songwriter of the San Diego rock band Switchfoot. It was released as a digital download on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, peaking at No. 12 on the overall iTunes albums chart, and No. 2 on the "Rock" albums chart. It also fared well on the Billboard charts, peaking at No. 14 on Billboard's Top Digital Albums chart and No. 179 on the Comprehensive Album Chart.

Spring (1969) directed by Arvo Kruusement is a film adaptation of Oskar Luts' popular novel of the same name. The movie placed first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists. In 1970 the movie sold 558,000 tickets in Estonia (Total population 1.36 million) and 8,100,000 in the Soviet Union in 1971. The film was re-released in Estonia on 13 April 2006.

The film was shot in Palamuse, which was the prototype area of Oskar Luts' "Paunvere".

Spring is the second album by American drummer Anthony Williams recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.

Spring (Milz) is a river of Thuringia, Germany.

Spring is the Australian arm of FremantleMedia Australia and was formed in 2011.

Spring is a lyric poem written and illustrated by William Blake. It was first published in Songs of Innocence (1789) and later in Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794).

Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of psychology produced by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. It is published by Spring Publications. The journal was established in 1949 and presents itself as the oldest Jungian psychology journal. The editor-in-chief is Nancy Cater.

Spring is a 2014 American romantic body horror film directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The film stars Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker.

Spring is the second mini album by South Korean girl group April. The album was released digitally and physically on April 27, 2016 by DSP Media, and is distributed by LOEN Entertainment. It contains six tracks, including the lead single, "Tinkerbell".

Spring is a 44–story residential condominium in Austin, Texas. Opening and completed in 2009, Spring stands over west Austin. The building was designed by Vancouver–based architect Foad Rafii. The architect of record is Morris Architects and Pentagram was the graphic designer of the project. Spring was the first point tower in Austin, a term referring to a tall and slender tower, combining high-rise residence with a skyscraper. It is also the first building in the Austin area to feature an "in slab" HVAC exhaust system in which the building exhaust air is carried through horizontal ductwork cast into the floor system and carried to the building perimeter rather than being exhausted vertically to the roof. The main tower structure is cast in place concrete. Austin Energy has given Spring a green rating. The skyscraper features a handful of amenities. Many of these are located on the 5th floor. There are two guest suites, roof top pool with outdoor kitchen and dining, welcoming resident's lounge, private dining room, and an exercise facility.

Political "spring" is a term popularized in the late twentieth century to refer to any of a number of student protests, revolutionary political movements or revolutionary waves. It originated in the European Revolutions of 1848, which was sometimes referred to as the "Spring of Nations" or "Springtime of the Peoples".

• Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968
• Croatian Spring, a 1971 movement for Croatian language rights and cultural identity in the Second Yugoslavia
• Beijing Spring, a period of political liberalization in the People's Republic of China in the late 1970s
• Seoul Spring, a period of democratization in South Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Rangoon Spring sometimes used to describe the period leading up to the August 8, 1988 "8888" Uprising
• Kathmandu Spring sometimes used to describe the 1990 People's Movement in Nepal, as well as subsequent democracy movements.
• Tehran Spring sometimes used to describe the period in Iran during the 1997–2005 presidency of Mohammad Khatami
• Damascus Spring, period in Syria following the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2001
• Cedar Spring was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon (especially in the capital Beirut) triggered by the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.
• Harare Spring sometimes used to describe the period in Zimbabwe after the 2008 power sharing agreement between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai
• Arab Spring, another term for the Middle East—North Africa protest of 2010–2014
• Riyadh Spring sometimes used to describe the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests.
• The 2012 Quebec student protests movement is also called the 'Maple' Spring, from the French "Printemps Érable" which sounds phonetically similar to "Printemps Arabe" (Arab Spring). "Printemps Québécois" for "Quebec Spring" is also used.
• The 2012 Valencia student protests, also called Valencian Spring. In February 2012 the students of the Lluís Vives High school participated in several demonstrations to protest against the cutbacks in the educational budgets of the Valencian Autonomous Community. The police’s performance in those demonstrations was extremely controversial and appeared in many international media. This sparked the interest of Parents Associations and both Student and International Organisations, such as Amnesty International and Save the Children. The documentary Spanish Teen Rally collect the testimony of Valencian Spring's students.
• Russian Spring sometimes used to describe the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine.

Spring is the first extended play and second musical release by South Korean brother-sister duo, Akdong Musician.