Definition/Meaning of spring

• English - Verb: spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung) (intransitive) To move or burst forth. The boat sprang a leak and began to sink. c. 1540, Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125: ...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude... (intransitive) To move or burst…
• English - Noun: spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs) (countable) An act of springing : a leap , a jump . 1700, John Dryden, The Cock and the Fox: The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke;Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might,And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight. (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate region s in which temperatures and daylight…
• English - See also: ( seasons ) season ; spring ,‎ summer ,‎ autumn /‎ fall ,‎ winter (Category: en:Seasons) [edit] geyser Hooke's law seep Slinky vernal well
• English - References: ↑ 1 . 0 1 . 1 “spring” in Douglas Harper , Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English springen , from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sperǵʰ- (“to hurry”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian springe * West Frisian springe * Dutch springen * German…