spring

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

springs

V_ing/Gerund

springing

V_ed/pp

sprangsprung

1.
(intransitive)To move or burst forth.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
2.
(transitive)To cause to spring (all senses).
3.
(transitive)To leap over.
4.
(obsolete)(obsolete, of horses) To breed with, to impregnate.
5.
(obsolete, transitive)To wet, to moisten.
6.
(intransitive, usually)(intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
7.
(obsolete)(obsolete, military) To go off.
8.
(ambitransitive, perfective, usually)(ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
The Edward sprang hir foremast.
9.
To come upon and flush out.
10.
(Australia, slang)To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
11.
(obsolete)To begin.
12.
(obsolete, slang)To put bad money into circulation.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

springs

1.
(countable)An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
2.
(countable, uncountable)The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and 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.
Đồng nghĩa: springtime
3.
(figuratively, uncountable)(uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
4.
(countable)(countable, fashion) 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.
5.
(countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
6.
(countable, slang)An erection of the penis.
7.
(countable, obsolete)(countable, nautical, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
8.
(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
9.
(countable)The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
Đồng nghĩa: impetus, impulse
10.
(countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

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Đồng nghĩa

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Trái nghĩa

neap tide

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out), from *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (to burst forth), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (to move, race, spring), from *sperǵʰ- (to hurry).