spring

Denizione di  spring - dizionario di inglese del sito grammaticainglese.org - definizione traduzione e spiegazione grammaticale


Definizione monolingua spring



spring


Verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)


  1. To start to exist.
    Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed.
    • 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, BBC:
      Just after the half-hour mark, the contest sprung to life with a frantic passage of play, Lampards first-time ball releasing Drogba, whose slight hesitation allowed Gael Givet to produce a brilliant saving tackle.
  2. To jump or leap.
    He sprang up from his seat.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
      She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
    • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
      Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room Chapter 2
      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.
  3. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
Noun

spring (countable and uncountable; plural springs)


  1. (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.
  2. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern).
  3. (countable) 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 Wikipedia-logo.png Spring (season) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Spring (season) for other variations.)
  4. (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.
  5. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
    This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
  6. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
  7. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
    We fucked so hard the bed springs broke.
  8. (countable, nautical) 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.
  9. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
  10. (countable) The source of an action
    • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 9.
      ... discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?


Definizione italiano>inglese spring


primavera
  season
  Traditionally the first of the four seasons, the season of growth with an ever increasing amount of daytime.
molla
  device made of flexible material
fonte
  water source
saltare
  jump or leap
sorgente
  water source
formarsi
  start to exist
generarsi
  start to exist
nascere
  start to exist
abbrivio
abbrivo
balestra
balzare
balzo
cascata
derivare
discendere
elasticità
fontana
piuma
pozzo
provenire
salto
scattare
scatto
scaturire
schizzare
sgorgare
slancio
sorgere
zampillare

Altri significati:


Traduzione 'veloce'



primavera ,molla ,fonte ,saltare ,sorgente


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