Spring vs. Springiness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spring and Springiness
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Definitions
Spring➦
To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap
The goat sprang over the log.
Springiness➦
Marked by resilience; elastic.
Spring➦
To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring
I let the branch spring forward. The door sprang shut.
Springiness➦
Abounding in freshwater springs.
Spring➦
To start doing something suddenly
The firefighters sprang into action.
Springiness➦
The property of being springy.
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Spring➦
To appear or come into being quickly
New businesses are springing up rapidly.
Springiness➦
The state or quality of being springy.
Spring➦
To issue or emerge suddenly
A cry sprang from her lips. A thought springs to mind.
Springiness➦
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
Spring➦
To arise from a source; develop
Their frustration springs from a misunderstanding.
Spring➦
(intransitive) To burst forth.
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Spring➦
(of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
Spring➦
To gush, to flow out of the ground.
Spring➦
(of light) To appear, to dawn.
Spring➦
(of plants) To sprout, to grow,
Spring➦
(now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
Spring➦
To rise from cover.
Spring➦
(of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
Spring➦
(figurative) to arise, to come into existence.
Hope springs eternal.
He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
Spring➦
To move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
He sprang to his feet.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Don't worry. She'll spring back to her cheerful old self in no time.
It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
She sprang to her husband's defense and clocked the protestor.
Spring➦
(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
He sprang from peasant stock.
Spring➦
To descend or originate from.
The Stoics sprang from the Cynics.
Spring➦
(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
Spring➦
To become known, to spread.
Spring➦
To emit, to spread.
Spring➦
To grow.
Spring➦
(transitive) To cause to burst forth.
Spring➦
To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
Spring➦
To bring forth.
Spring➦
To cause to become known, to tell of.
Spring➦
To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
Spring➦
To cause to rise from cover.
His dogs sprang the grouse and partridges and flushed the woodcock.
Spring➦
To shift quickly from one designated position to another.
Spring➦
To breed with, to impregnate.
Spring➦
(of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
He sprang the trap.
Spring➦
To make wet, to moisten.
Spring➦
To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
Spring➦
To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
Spring➦
To go off.
Spring➦
To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
Spring➦
To crack.
Spring➦
To have something crack.
Spring➦
To cause to crack.
Spring➦
To surprise by sudden or deft action.
Spring➦
To come upon and flush out
Spring➦
To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
Spring➦
(obsolete) To begin something.
Spring➦
(obsolete) To produce, provide, or place an item unexpectedly.
Spring➦
To put bad money into circulation.
Spring➦
To tell, to share.
Spring➦
(of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
Spring➦
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
Spring➦
To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
Spring➦
To build, to form the initial curve of.
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
Spring➦
To extend, to curve.
The arches spring from the front posts.
Spring➦
To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
Spring➦
To raise a vessel's sheer.
Spring➦
To raise a last's toe.
Spring➦
(transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
Spring➦
To raise an offered price.
Spring➦
To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
Spring➦
To equip with springs, especially to equip with a suspension.
Spring➦
To provide spring or elasticity
Spring➦
To inspire, to motivate.
Spring➦
(ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
He sprang in the slat.
Spring➦
To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
Spring➦
To swell with milk or pregnancy.
Spring➦
To sound, to play.
Spring➦
(intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere
Spring➦
(of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.
Spring➦
(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
Spring➦
(countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
Spring➦
(astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
Spring➦
(meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
The spring issue will be out next week.
Spring➦
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
Spring➦
A period of political liberalization and democratization
Arab Spring
Spring➦
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.
Spring➦
(countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
Spring➦
(geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
Spring➦
The rising of the sea at high tide.
Spring➦
(oceanography) nodot=a, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
Neap tide
Spring➦
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
Spring➦
(nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
Spring➦
(nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
Spring➦
(figurative) A race, a lineage.
Spring➦
(figurative) A youth.
Spring➦
A shoot, a young tree.
Spring➦
A grove of trees; a forest.
Spring➦
An erection of the penis. en
Spring➦
A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
Spring➦
(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
Spring➦
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
The spring of a bow
Spring➦
Elastic energy, power, or force.
Spring➦
(countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
Spring➦
(countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
Spring➦
A cause, a motive, etc.
Spring➦
(obsolete) A lively piece of music.
Spring➦
To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springsFrom height to height, and bounds along the plains.
Spring➦
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden lightSprung through the vaulted roof.
Spring➦
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
Spring➦
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Spring➦
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
Spring➦
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.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
Spring➦
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 springOut of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
Spring➦
To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,At whose command we perish, and we spring?
Spring➦
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.
Spring➦
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.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
Spring➦
To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
Spring➦
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
Spring➦
To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
Spring➦
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.
Spring➦
To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
Spring➦
To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison.
Spring➦
A leap; a bound; a jump.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
Spring➦
A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Spring➦
Elastic power or force.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
Spring➦
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.
Spring➦
Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
Spring➦
Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to moveThe hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
Spring➦
That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
Spring➦
That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
Spring➦
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.
Spring➦
The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life.
O how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day.
Spring➦
A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
Spring➦
The season of growth;
The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring
He will hold office until the spring of next year
Spring➦
A natural flow of ground water
Spring➦
A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;
The spring was broken
Spring➦
A light springing movement upwards or forwards
Spring➦
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
Spring➦
A point at which water issues forth
Spring➦
Move forward by leaps and bounds;
The horse bounded across the meadow
The child leapt across the puddle
Can you jump over the fence?
Spring➦
Develop into a distinctive entity;
Our plans began to take shape
Spring➦
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Spring➦
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang a new haircut on his wife
Spring➦
Develop suddenly;
The tire sprang a leak
Spring➦
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving
