spring

Meanings

Verb

• To burst forth.
• To grow.
• To cause to burst forth.
• To make wet, to moisten.
• To rise suddenly, to well up.
• To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
• to go off.
• To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
• To crack.
• To have something crack.
• To cause to crack.
• To surprise by sudden or deft action.
• To build, to form the initial curve of.
• To extend, to curve.
• To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
• To raise a vessel's sheer.
• To raise a last's toe.
• To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
• To raise an offered price.
• Alternative of sprain.
• Alternative of strain.
• To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
• To equip with springs, especially to equip with a suspension.
• To provide spring or elasticity
• to inspire, to motivate.
• To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
• To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
• To swell with milk or pregnancy.
• To sound, to play.
• To spend the springtime somewhere

Noun

• An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
• The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
• The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
• 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.
• Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
• An erection of the penis.
• A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or a plank or seam.
• Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
• The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
• Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

Origin

• As a verb, from Middle English springen ("to burst forth"), from Old English springan ("to [[burst forth"), cognate with Afrikaans spring, West Frisian springe, Dutch & German springen, Danish springe, Swedish springa. Further etymology is uncertain, but usually taken to derive from a Proto-Germanic verb reconstructed as *springaną, from a Proto-Indo-European root reconstructed *sperǵʰ- whose other descendants may include Lithuanian spreñgti ("to [[push (in)"), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти ("to spin, to stretch"), Latin spargere ("to sprinkle, to scatter"), Ancient Greek σπέρχω ("to hasten"), Sanskrit स्पृहयति ("to be eager"). Some newer senses derived from the noun.
• As a noun, from Middle English spring ("a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock"), from Old English spring ("wellspring, ulcer") and Old English spryng ("a jump"), from ablaut forms of the Proto-Germanic verb. Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Old English lencten as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.