Spring vs. String

Springverb

To jump or leap.

‘He sprang up from his seat.’;

Stringnoun

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

Springverb

To pass over by leaping.

Stringnoun

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

Springverb

To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.

Stringnoun

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

‘a violin string’; ‘a bowstring’;

Springverb

(slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.

Stringnoun

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

‘a string of shells or beads; a string of sausages’;

Springverb

To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules.

Stringnoun

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

‘The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive’;

Springverb

To come into being, often quickly or sharply.

‘Trees are already springing up in the plantation.’;

Stringnoun

(countable) A series of items or events.

‘a string of successes’;

Springverb

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Stringnoun

(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.

Springverb

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.

‘to spring a pheasant’;

Stringnoun

(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

Springverb

(nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.

‘to spring a mast or a yard’;

Stringnoun

A group of racehorses kept at one track.

Springverb

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.

‘to spring in a slat or a bar’;

Stringnoun

An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

Springverb

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

Stringnoun

A stringed instrument.

Springverb

To move suddenly when pressure is released.

‘A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.’;

Stringnoun

The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

Springverb

(intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.

‘A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.’;

Stringnoun

(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

‘no strings attached’;

Springverb

To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out.

Stringnoun

The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.

Springverb

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

Stringnoun

(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.

Springverb

(obsolete) To grow; to prosper.

Stringnoun

Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

Springverb

To build (an arch).

‘They sprung an arch over the lintel.’;

Stringnoun

The points made in a game of billiards.

Springverb

To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).

Stringnoun

The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.

Springnoun

A leap; a bound; a jump.

Stringnoun

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Springnoun

(countable) 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.

‘Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.’; ‘I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.’; ‘You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.’;

Stringnoun

(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

Springnoun

(countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern.

Stringnoun

(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

Springnoun

(countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See Spring (season) for other variations.)

Stringnoun

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

Springnoun

(countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.

Stringnoun

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

‘the strings of beans’;

Springnoun

(countable) A place where water or oil emerges from the ground.

‘This water is bottled from the spring of the river.’;

Stringnoun

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

Springnoun

(uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.

‘the spring of a bow’;

Stringnoun

(architecture) A stringcourse.

Springnoun

Elastic power or force.

Stringnoun

A hoax; a fake story.

Springnoun

(countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.

‘We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.’;

Stringverb

(transitive) To put (items) on a string.

‘You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.’;

Springnoun

An erection of the penis.

Stringverb

(transitive) To put strings on (something).

‘It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.’;

Springnoun

(countable) The source of an action or of a supply.

Stringverb

(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

Springnoun

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

Stringnoun

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.

‘Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.’;

Springnoun

That which springs, or is originated, from a source.

Stringnoun

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.

Springnoun

A race; lineage.

Stringnoun

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Springnoun

A youth; a springald.

Stringnoun

The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.

‘Me softer airs befit, and softer stringsOf lute, or viol still.’;

Springnoun

A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

Stringnoun

The line or cord of a bow.

‘He twangs the grieving string.’;

Springnoun

(obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Stringnoun

A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

‘Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.’;

Springnoun

The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

Stringnoun

A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

‘The string of his tongue was loosed.’;

Springnoun

A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.

‘You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.’;

Stringnoun

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

Springnoun

(nautical) 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.

Stringnoun

The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.

Springnoun

(nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

Stringnoun

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

Springverb

To leap; to bound; to jump.

‘The mountain stag that springsFrom height to height, and bounds along the plains.’;

Stringnoun

Same as Stringcourse.

Springverb

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

‘And sudden lightSprung through the vaulted roof.’;

Stringnoun

The points made in a game.

Springverb

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

‘Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.’;

Stringnoun

In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.

Springverb

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

Stringnoun

The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; - called also string line.

Springverb

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

Stringnoun

A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.

Springverb

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.’;

Stringnoun

a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.

Springverb

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.’;

Stringnoun

A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory.

Springverb

To grow; to thrive; to prosper.

‘What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,At whose command we perish, and we spring?’;

Stringverb

To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

‘Has not wise nature strung the legs and feetWith firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?’;

Springverb

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.

Stringverb

To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

‘For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,That not a mountain rears its head unsung.’;

Springverb

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.’;

Stringverb

To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

Springverb

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

Stringverb

To make tense; to strengthen.

‘Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.’;

Springverb

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

Stringverb

To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

Springverb

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

Stringverb

To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.

Springverb

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.

Stringverb

To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

Springverb

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

Stringnoun

a lightweight cord

Springverb

To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison.

Stringnoun

stringed instruments that are played with a bow;

‘the strings played superlatively well’;

Springnoun

A leap; a bound; a jump.

‘The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.’;

Stringnoun

a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed

Springnoun

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

Stringnoun

a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;

‘a string of islands’; ‘train of mourners’; ‘a train of thought’;

Springnoun

Elastic power or force.

‘Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!’;

Stringnoun

a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)

Springnoun

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.

Stringnoun

a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening;

‘he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag’;

Springnoun

Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

Stringnoun

a collection of objects threaded on a single strand

Springnoun

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.’;

Stringnoun

a necklace made by a stringing objects together;

‘a string of beads’; ‘a strand of pearls’;

Springnoun

That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

Stringverb

thread on or as if on a string;

‘string pearls on a string’; ‘the child drew glass beads on a string’; ‘thread dried cranberries’;

Springnoun

That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Stringverb

add as if on a string;

‘string these ideas together’; ‘string up these songs and you'll have a musical’;

Springnoun

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.

Stringverb

move or come along

Springnoun

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.’;

Stringverb

stretch out or arrange like a string

Springnoun

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

Stringverb

string together; tie or fasten with a string;

‘string the package’;

Springnoun

the season of growth;

‘the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring’; ‘he will hold office until the spring of next year’;

Stringverb

remove the stringy parts of;

‘string beans’;

Springnoun

a natural flow of ground water

Stringverb

provide with strings;

‘string my guitar’;

Springnoun

a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;

‘the spring was broken’;

Springnoun

a light springing movement upwards or forwards

Springnoun

the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

Springnoun

a point at which water issues forth

Springverb

move forward by leaps and bounds;

‘The horse bounded across the meadow’; ‘The child leapt across the puddle’; ‘Can you jump over the fence?’;

Springverb

develop into a distinctive entity;

‘our plans began to take shape’;

Springverb

spring back; spring away from an impact;

‘The rubber ball bounced’; ‘These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide’;

Springverb

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;

‘He sprang a new haircut on his wife’;

Springverb

develop suddenly;

‘The tire sprang a leak’;

Springverb

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;

‘He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving’;