Spring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPRING in dictionary:

VERB:
• to leap upward
• move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards
• move rapidly or suddenly from a constrained position by or as if by the action of a spring
• operate suddenly by means of a mechanism
• cause (a game bird) to rise from cover.
• bring about the escape or release of (a prisoner)
• originate or arise from
• appear suddenly or unexpectedly from
• suddenly develop or appear
• present or propose something suddenly or unexpectedly to (someone)
• cushion or fit (a vehicle or item of furniture) with springs
• (especially of wood) become warped or split.
• (of a boat) suffer splitting of (a mast or other part).
• pay for
• spend (money)
• come upon (an illicit activity or its perpetrator)
• move suddenly upwards or forwards in a single motion, jump
• 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.
• move forward by leaps and bounds
• develop into a distinctive entity
• spring back; spring away from an impact
• develop suddenly
NOUN:
• the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November
• the period from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice.
• an elastic device, typically a helical metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape when released, used chiefly to exert constant tension or absorb movement.
• the ability to spring back strongly; elasticity
• a sudden jump upwards or forwards
• an escape or release from prison.
• a place where water or oil wells up from an underground source, or the basin or flow formed in such a way
• the origin or a source of something
• a split in a wooden plank or spar under strain.
• a flock of teal
• the season of growth
• a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
• a natural flow of ground water
• a point at which water issues forth
• the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
• a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
• season between winter and summer
• an upward curvature of a ship's deck planking from the horizontal.
• a hawser laid out diagonally aft from a ship's bow or forward from a ship's stern and secured to a fixed point in order to prevent movement or assist manoeuvring.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move upward suddenly and swiftly

Words related to SPRING

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Words that contain SPRING

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How to use SPRING in a sentence

• But in the spring she was attacked by the measles, and her illness, slight as it was, gave occasion to a curious passage in court history.
• With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted.
• He walked over to the fence, and with one spring he was on the other side, without knowing how it happened.
• A supply of fresh animals for transportation in the spring was his next care.
• On a fine, clear, warm spring day we marched along, all in the best of spirits, songs of all sorts being sung one after the other.
• The true greatness of a State does not spring from such a contemptible source.
• And not until the birds sing in spring will he return.
• At length the sun of another spring returned, the spring of 1739, and the recruited armies were prepared again to take the field.
• She sat up in the bed, ready to spring to the window if she heard steps on the stairs.
• The planting may be done at any time after the leaves have fallen, late in autumn, and during winter and early spring.
• If the Indians should drive off his cattle, the family would not be able to go to the Valley next spring.
• Hawthorne, who was then living in the red cottage at Lenox, had a week at Arrow Head with his daughter Una the previous spring.
• And as he plowed the land, the farmer thought about the Messiah, and wondered if he would come before the harvest in the spring.
• The Tiger actually stopped short in its spring, to gaze upon this perplexing, motionless Being who knew no fear.
• Meanwhile, beyond the walls, a stormy spring had passed, succeeded by an unsettled summer.
• Anthony, where there was a mineral spring and a good hotel.
• But as the spring term drew nearer its close, he found it more and more difficult to keep up a pretence at attention.
• Arrangements were made for cultivating a field in the coming spring.
• I had an opportunity, during a visit to Strassburg in the spring, to see the soldiery of France.
• The air was crisp, with the sparkle of spring, and all the adventurers rejoiced.
• Cod are taken here in the spring, haddock in January and February, and hake in the summer months.
• In the spring he had built a canoe, the materials for which he had brought with him across the mountains, and had come down the river to our establishment.
• The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear, and the common weather there, in spring and autumn, is equal to the finest summer day in England.
• The most refreshing as well as most wholesome water is river or spring water, perfectly filtered so that no possible impurity can remain.
• The passages in the romances which hail the return of spring, are full of thankfulness and delight.

Similar words containing SPR without suffix ing

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