spring

spring is a 6-letter English word with 41 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To leap; to bound; to jump. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 41 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To leap; to bound; to jump.
2. intransitive verb. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
3. intransitive verb. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
4. intransitive verb. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
5. intransitive verb. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
6. intransitive verb. 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.
7. intransitive verb. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
8. intransitive verb. To grow; to prosper.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. transitive verb. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
11. transitive verb. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
12. transitive verb. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
13. transitive verb. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
14. transitive verb. 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.
15. transitive verb. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
16. intransitive verb. A leap; a bound; a jump.
17. intransitive verb. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
18. intransitive verb. Elastic power or force.
19. intransitive verb. 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.
20. intransitive verb. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
21. intransitive verb. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
22. intransitive verb. That which springs, or is originated, from a source
23. intransitive verb. A race; lineage.
24. intransitive verb. A youth; a springal.
25. intransitive verb. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
26. intransitive verb. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
27. intransitive verb. 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.
28. intransitive verb. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
29. intransitive verb. A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
30. intransitive verb. 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.
31. noun. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

    Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation

32. noun. a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed

    "the spring was broken"

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

    Synonyms: give, springiness

34. noun. a point at which water issues forth
35. noun. a natural flow of ground water

    Synonyms: fountain, outflow, outpouring

36. noun. the season of growth

    "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"

    "he will hold office until the spring of next year"

    Synonyms: springtime

37. verb. develop suddenly

    "The tire sprang a leak"

38. verb. produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly

    "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"

39. verb. spring back; spring away from an impact

    "The rubber ball bounced"

    "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

    Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet

40. verb. move forward by leaps and bounds

    "The horse bounded across the meadow"

    "The child leapt across the puddle"

    Synonyms: bound, jump, leap

41. verb. develop into a distinctive entity

    "our plans began to take shape"

    Synonyms: form

Synonyms

bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation, give, springiness, fountain, outflow, outpouring, springtime, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, jump, form

Common word forms

springs, springal, springed, springer, springes, springly, springful, springing, springless

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