Definition von spring#on im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Spring Heeled Jack
- A mythical character from England, recognized during the 19th century
- spring
- A place where water emerges from the ground
- spring
- The source of an action
discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?.
- spring
- An erection of the penis
- spring
- To jump or leap
Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
- spring
- Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern)
- spring
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched
- spring
- To release or set free, especially from prison
- spring
- The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 20 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See 15px Spring (season) on Wikipedia. for other variations.)
- spring
- A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging
- spring
- The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc
- spring
- To start to exist
Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed.
- spring
- 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
- 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
- spring beauty
- Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia
- spring break
- A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring
- spring chicken
- A chicken for eating while it is still young
- spring clean
- A systematic clean or clear out of something
- spring cleaning
- A systematic cleaning, reorganization, or weeding out of a system
- spring cleaning
- A systematic cleaning of a residence at the end of winter
- spring cleans
- plural form of spring clean
- spring constant
- A characteristic of a spring which is defined as the ratio of the force affecting the spring to the displacement caused by it
- spring equinox
- synonym for vernal equinox
- spring festival
- Chinese New Year
- spring fever
- A feeling of invigoration and restlessness associated with the arrival of the warm weather and renewal of nature in the spring season
Was it a case of spring fever, or just a horse longing for its stable? Whatever the reason, one of the city's normally well-disciplined police horses bolted yesterday, injuring its rider and leading several patrol cars on a milelong chase through Lower Manhattan.
- spring fever
- A feeling of laziness or listlessness associated with the arrival of the warm, comfortable weather of the spring season
Endymion and the Secretary, after sitting on a pier-end watching some barges, . . . were stricken with the very crisis of spring fever and lassitude. They considered the possibility of hiring one of the soldiers' two-tiered beds for the afternoon.
- spring for
- To pay for; to offer money
Wal-Mart . . . would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground.
- spring green
- Of a fresh green colour, that reminds one of spring
- spring green
- A fresh green colour, that reminds one of spring
spring green colour:.
- spring greens
- the dark green leaves of the borecole plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, used as a vegetable; collard greens
- spring gun
- a gun rigged to fire when a string is tripped
- spring in one's step
- enthusiasm, energy or a positive outlook or cheerful attitude
You could see by the spring in his step that he was in love with the girl next door.
- spring line
- A line stretched longways between a docked vessel and a cleat on the pier, or used during berthing to guide the vessel into its slip
- spring lines
- plural form of spring line
- spring onion
- several similar types of onion
- spring onion
- a species of onion (Allium fistulosum) from Asia, with slender bulbs
- spring onions
- plural form of spring onion
- spring roll
- A type of savoury food consisting of shredded vegetables wrapped in a pancake made from rice flour and then fried
- spring roll
- An egg roll
- spring rolls
- plural form of spring roll
- spring tide
- The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced this type of tide is of maximum range
- spring tides
- plural form of spring tide
- spring to mind
- To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something
Two good reasons spring to mind at once.
- spring training
- A set of practices and exhibition games for each Major League Baseball team, preceding the start of the regular season, which are used by a manager to determine the roster for the regular season
Spring training for the Cactus League begins tomorrow.
- spring training
- Of or pertaining to the set of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season
The spring training schedule has been released.
- spring up
- To come rapidly into existence
- spring up
- To appear suddenly
- spring water
- A variant spelling of springwater
- spring-clean
- To engage in spring-cleaning
- spring-clean
- To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc)
- spring-cleaning
- A major cleanup, usually done during the season of spring
- spring-heeled
- Having, or seeming to have, springs on one's heels, and so able to jump much higher than usual
- spring-like
- A variant spelling of springlike
- spring-loaded
- Of a mechanical device, containing a spring that holds a component in a particular position
- spring-release
- Of a mechanical device, containing a component that compresses or extends a spring while held in place and so springs free when released
- spring-roll
- Attributive form of spring roll, noun
- spring-water
- A variant spelling of springwater
- spring
- {v} to grow, arise, start, bound, leap, fire a mine, crack a mast or yard
- spring
- {n} a season of the year, elastic force, leap, skip, leak, fountain, source, rise, cause, original, a transverse crack in a mast or yard, a rope from a ship's stern to a cable
- Spring greens
- (Botanik, Bitkibilim) (plural noun) the leaves of young cabbage plants of a variety that does not develop a heart
- spring
- (Nautical) A rope put out from a vessel and made fast for anchorage or to aid movement or manoeuvring
- spring balance
- a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring
- spring lamb
- A milk-fed lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring
- spring line
- 1. (Nautical) A rope put out from a vessel and made fast for anchorage or to aid movement or manoeuvring.2. a line where the water table reaches the surface and along which springs are numerous
- spring scale
- a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring
- spring scale
- spring balance
- spring to mind
- occur to someone
- Spring Bank Holiday
- a public holiday in the UK, on the last Monday in May
- spring
- Elastic power or force
- spring
- A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow
- 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
- Spring whose water issues under artesian pressure generally through fractures that penetrate from the land surface through a confining bed of rock and into more permeable water-bearing rock where the water is under greater than atmospheric pressure and where the pressure in the water-bearing rock is able to lift the water to the land surface Example: Paradise Springs, Idaho; Great Springs, Montana
- spring
- When a person or animal springs, they jump upwards or forwards suddenly or quickly. He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table Throwing back the sheet, he sprang from the bed The lion roared once and sprang
- spring
- The season of the year which occurs as the sun approaches the summer solstice, and characterized by increasing temperatures in the mid-latitudes Customarily, this refers to the months of March, April, and May in the North Hemisphere, and the months of September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere Astronomically, this is the period between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice
- spring
- an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain; a source of a body or reservoir of water
- 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
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"
- 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 produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring
- {f} jump, leap; move quickly; suddenly appear; quickly come into being, sprout; work loose; twist, warp (of wood); activate; release; free from prison (Slang)
- spring
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken" a point at which water issues forth a natural flow of ground water the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak" produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving" produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife
- spring
- A leap; a bound; a jump
- spring
- The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage
- spring
- A natural fountain that comes from the rocks just below the surface of the Earth; a source of a body or reservoir of water
- spring
- a natural discharge of groundwater at the land's surface
- 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; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain
- spring
- To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power
- spring
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- spring
- A place where ground water naturally comes to the surface resulting from the watertable meeting the land surface
- spring
- a natural flow of ground water
- spring
- To leap; to bound; to jump
- spring
- A concentrated discharge of groundwater coming out at the surface as flowing water
- spring
- The point at which the water table meets earths surface, causing water to flow from the ground
- spring
- To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence
- spring
- If a boat or container springs a leak, water or some other liquid starts coming in or out through a crack. The yacht has sprung a leak in the hull
- spring
- If one thing springs from another thing, it is the result of it. Ethiopia's art springs from her early Christian as well as her Muslim heritage = stem
- 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
- develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"
- spring
- develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape"
- spring
- That which springs, or is originated, from a source; A race; lineage
- spring a leak
- beginning of a leak, start of a dripping
- spring balance
- balance on which one hangs an item for weighing and the weight is determined by the degree of stretching of the balance
- spring beauty
- small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
- spring bed
- bed of coils or wires which return to their original forms after being forced out of shape
- spring board
- Also called "diving"board - A recreational mechanism for entering a swimming pool con- sisting of a semi-rigid board that derives its spring from a fulcrum mounted below the board and attached to the deck
- spring board
- circumstances which aid advancement; springy board used as a takeoff in leaping; diving board
- spring break
- A period of recess, usually lasting one week, during the spring term at school. a holiday from college or university in the spring, usually two weeks long
- spring break
- a week or more of recess during the spring term at school
- spring cankerworm
- variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata
- spring chicken
- a young person (especially a young man or boy)
- spring chicken
- baby chick; young girl (Slang); innocent person (Slang)
- spring cleaning
- extensive cleaning, cleaning the house for a holiday
- spring fever
- A feeling of languor or yearning brought on by the coming of spring. a sudden feeling of energy that you have in the spring
- spring forth
- jump ahead, leap forth
- spring lock
- lock operated by a spring, lock operated by a coiled device
- spring mattress
- a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame
- spring on
- attack, fall on to
- spring onion
- Spring onions are small onions with long green leaves. They are often eaten raw in salads. a strong tasting onion with a small white round part and a long green stem, usually eaten raw American Equivalent: scallion American Equivalent: green onion
- spring out of bed
- leap out of bed, jump out of bed
- spring over
- jump over, leap over
- spring peeper
- small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring
- spring pressure
- stress placed on a spring
- spring seat
- comfortable seat that contains a system of coil springs
- spring squill
- European scilla with small blue or purple flowers
- spring steel
- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, etc
- spring tide
- tide of large range occurring twice per lunar month during full and new moon phases See also Tide
- spring tide
- Tide of maximum range occurring at the new and full moon
- spring tide
- A spring tide is an unusually high tide that happens at the time of a new moon or a full moon. a large rise and fall in the level of the sea at the time of the new moon and the full moon neap tide
- spring tide
- The tide that occurs at new or full Moon when the gravitational influence of the Sun is working primarily in line with the Moon, so that the tidal range is high
- spring tide
- highest level the tide reaches
- spring tide
- condition of the tides resulting from the alignment of the earth and sun As a results of the gravitational and centrifugal effects of the sun and moon reinforcing one another, the tidal range is maximal
- spring tide
- A tide of increased range, which occurs about every two weeks when the moon is new or full
- spring tide
- A tide of increased range, which occurs about every two weeks when the moon is new or full Compare with a neap tide
- spring to one's feet
- jump up, stand up quickly
- spring up
- come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
- spring up
- If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist. New theatres and arts centres sprang up all over the country
- spring up
- {f} appear, develop, come into existence; be formed, take on form
- spring up into the air
- jump into the air, leap into the air
- spring vetch
- herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building
- spring vetchling
- bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers
- spring water
- water from a spring
- spring water
- underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks
- spring-cleaning
- the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter
- spring-like
- of the season after winter and before summer; full of life, young, fresh, clear
- spring-loaded
- containing a compressed spring that presses one part against another