different between skip vs spring

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?p, IPA^(key): /sk?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjan?, *skupan? (“to scoff, mock”), perhaps related to *skeuban? (“to drive, push”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Middle Swedish skuppa (“to skip”).

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

   She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
   • So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   The rock will skip across the pond.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

   I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

   My heart will skip a beat.

   I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

6. To place an item in a skip.
7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

   Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

8. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
   • 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?

     I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

     She really want to skip town

     Get back off me, beast off me

     Get back you flea-infested mongrel

9. To leap lightly over.

   to skip the rope

10. To jump rope.

    The girls were skipping in the playground.

11. (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

Synonyms

• (informal, not to attend): (US) play hookie

Translations

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
   • 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)

     Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.

5. (radio) skywave propagation

Derived terms

• skipping rope

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”).

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
4. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
6. A beehive.

Synonyms

• (open-topped rubbish bin): dumpster (Canada, US)

Translations

Etymology 3

Late Middle English skillper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”), related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
2. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
3. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
4. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
5. (Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Translations

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

Alternative forms

• skippy

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   • 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,

     Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

     Barber: She is Australian.

     Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.

Translations

See also

• limey
• wog

Etymology 5

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (college slang) A college servant.

Related terms

• gyp (Cambridge University)
• scout (Oxford University)

References

Anagrams

• KPIs, kips

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch schip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)

1. ship

Derived terms

• oorlogskip
• seilskip
• stoomskip
• vliegdekskip
• vragskip

Descendants

• ? Northern Ndebele: isikepe
• ? Shona: chikepe
• ? Sotho: sekepe
• ? Tsonga: xikepe
• ? Xhosa: isikhephe
• ? Zulu: isikebhe

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• kips
• spik

Gothic

Romanization

skip

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sc??p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)

1. ship, boat

Declension

Synonyms

• (ship, boat): bátur m, gnoð f, kafs hestur m

Derived terms

• flaggskip
• geimskip

Anagrams

• spik

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Cognate with Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic ???????????????? (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa or skipene)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

References

• “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Akin to English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

For other terms please refer to skip (Bokmål) for the time being.

References

• “skip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic ???????????????? (skip).

Noun

skip n (genitive skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

• skipari

Descendants

References

• skip in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English s?ip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.

Noun

skip n

1. ship

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: schip, schep
  • German Low German: Schipp, Schepp

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)

1. ship
2. shipload
3. nave (of a church)

Further reading

• “skip (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

As a verb, from Middle English springen (“to burst or flow forth, to sprout, to emerge, to happen, to become known, to sprinkle”), from Old English springan (“to burst or flow forth, to sprout, to emerge, to become known”), cognate with Afrikaans spring, West Frisian springe, Dutch & German springen, Danish springe, Swedish springa. Further etymology is uncertain, but usually taken to derive from a Proto-Germanic verb reconstructed as *springan? (“to burst forth”), from a Proto-Indo-European root reconstructed *sper??- whose other descendants may include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (pr?sti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek ?????? (spérkh?, “to hasten”), Sanskrit ???????? (sp?háyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

As a noun, from Middle English spring (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”), from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”) and Old English spryng (“a jump”), from ablaut forms of the Proto-Germanic verb. Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spr?ng, IPA^(key): /sp???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To burst forth.
   1. (of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
      • Beowulf, ll. 2966–7:

        ...for swenge swat ædrum sprong
        forð under fexe.

        ...for the swing, the blood from his veins sprang
        forth under his hair.

      • c. 1540, John Bellenden translating Livy as History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125:

        ...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude...

   2. (of water, now mostly followed by "out" or "up") To gush, to flow out of the ground.
   3. (of light) To appear, to dawn.
      • 1611, Bible (KJV), Judges, 19:25:

        ...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.

   4. (of plants) To sprout, to grow,
      • 1611, Bible (KJV), Job, 38:25–27:

        Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
        To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
        To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

      • 1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p. 42:

        Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.

      • 1974, James Albert Michener, Centennial, p. 338:

        There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.

      • 2006, N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross, vi:

        Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.

   5. (now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
   6. (hunting, especially of birds) To rise from cover.
   7. (of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
   8. (figuratively) to arise, to come into existence.

      Synonyms: arise, form, take shape

   9. (figuratively, Usually with cardinal adverbs, of animals) to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
      • c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v:

        ...into helle spring...

      • 1474, William Caxton translator, Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141:

        Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.

      • 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton:

        ...the Mountain Stag, that springs
        From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
        Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...

      • 1827, Clement Clarke Moore, "(A Visit from St. Nicholas)":

        ...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
        I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

      • 2011 April 11, The Atlantic:

        Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...

      Synonyms: bound, jump, leap

   10. (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from

   11. (figuratively, religion, philosophy) to descend or originate from.

   12. (obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
   13. (obsolete, of knowledge, usually with wide) To become known, to spread.
   14. (obsolete, of odors) To emit, to spread.
2. (transitive, archaic, of beards) To grow.
   • c. 1330,, "Otuel", The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, ll. 1445–6:

     A ?ong kni?t, þat sprong furst [berd],
     Of no man he nas aferd.

3. (transitive) To cause to burst forth.
   1. (rare, of water) To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
   2. (figuratively, of plants) To bring forth.
      1. (obsolete) permit to bring forth new shoots, leaves, etc.
   3. (obsolete, of knowledge) To cause to become known, to tell of.
   4. (figuratively, of animals) To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
      • 1986 April 25, Horse & Hound, p. 40:

        Just before the last pair of cones he sprung his ponies.

      • 2003 July 10, Daily Telegraph, p. 7:

        Simple tricks such as an ‘ollie’—springing the board into mid-air—can be picked up in just a couple of weeks.

   5. (hunting, of birds) To cause to rise from cover.

   6. (obsolete, military, of weapons) To shift quickly from one designated position to another.
      • 1833, Regulations for the Instruction... of the Cavalry, i, i, 29:

        Each man springs his ramrod as the officer passes him, and then returns it.

   7. (obsolete, of horses) To breed with, to impregnate.
      • 1585, Thomas Washington translating Nicolas De Nicolay as The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie..., Bk. IV, p. 154:

        ...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to spring their mares...

   8. (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
      • 1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer

        On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Haif Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To make wet, to moisten.
5. (intransitive, usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.

6. (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
   • 1698, François Froger, A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa, p. 30:

     On the 22nd the mines sprang, and took very good effect.

7. (obsolete, military) to go off.
   • 2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 5:

     The whole contraption appears liable to spring apart at any moment.

8. (transitive, military) To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. II, x, ix:

     They sprung another Mine... wherein was placed about sixtie Barrels of Powder.

9. (intransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
   • 2011, Julian Stockwin, Conquest, p. 177:

     Probably the mast had sprung in some squall.

10. (transitive, nautical) To have something crack.
    • 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:

      The Edward sprang hir foremast.

11. (transitive, nautical) To cause to crack.
    • a. 1653, Zacharie Boyd, "Zion's Flowers":

      A boisterous wind...
      Springs the... mast...

13. (transitive, figuratively) To surprise by sudden or deft action.
    1. To come upon and flush out
       • 1819, James Hardy Vaux, "A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language", Memoirs, Vol. II, s.v. "Plant":

         To spring a plant, is to find any thing that has been concealed by another.

    2. (Australia, slang) to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
       • 1980, John Hepworth & al., Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs..., p. 42:

         He figured that nobody would ever spring him, but he figured wrong.

    3. (obsolete) To begin something.
    4. (obsolete) To produce, provide, or place an item unexpectedly.
       • 1700, John Dryden translating Ovid as "Cinyras and Myrrha" in Fables, p. 178:

         Surpriz'd with Fright,
         She starts, and leaves her Bed, and springs a Light.

       • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, Vol. I, p. 53:

         It's a feast at a poor country labourer's place, when he springs six-penn'orth of fresh herrings.

    5. (obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
    6. (obsolete, of jokes, gags) To tell, to share.
    7. (of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.

    8. (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.

       Synonyms: free, let out, release, spring loose
    9. (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
14. (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.

15. (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.

16. (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
17. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To raise a vessel's sheer.
18. (transitive, obsolete, cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
19. (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
    • 1957, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Over Seventy, p. 137:

      He wouldn't spring a nickel for a bag of peanuts.

20. (obsolete, intransitive, slang) To raise an offered price.
21. (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
22. (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
23. (intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
24. (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
25. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To provide spring or elasticity
26. (figuratively, rare, obsolete) to inspire, to motivate.
27. (transitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
    • 1873 July, Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine, p. 503:

      Don't drive it in too hard, as it will ‘spring’ the plane-iron, and make it concave.

28. (intransitive, now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
29. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
    • 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, Chapter 15, p. 228,^[2]

      “Gee, Dad, Nancy’s springing all right,” Ray said and paused in spontaneous pleasure.

      Stan Parker came, and together they looked at their swelling heifer.

30. (transitive, of rattles, archaic) To sound, to play.
31. (intransitive, obsolete) To spend the springtime somewhere
    1. (of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.

Usage notes

• The past-tense forms sprang and sprung are both well attested historically. In modern usage, sprang is comparatively formal (and more often considered correct), sprung comparatively informal. The past participle, however, is overwhelmingly sprung; sprang as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.

Synonyms

• (come into being): see also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)

1. (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
   • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox":

     The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke;
     Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might,
     And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight.

2. (countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

   Synonym: springtime

   Coordinate terms: summer, autumn or fall, winter

   1. (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.

   2. (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.

3. (uncountable, figuratively) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), 1 Samuel 9:26:

     ...and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house...
4. (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
   1. (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.

      Synonyms: fount, source

   2. (oceanography, obsolete) The rising of the sea at high tide.
   3. (oceanography) Short for spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.

      Antonym: neap tide

   4. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.

      Synonym: coil

   5. (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
      • 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, Vol. III, p. 72:

        He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora.

   6. (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
      • 1769, William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, s.v.:

        Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her.

      • 2007 January 26, Business Times:

        ‘Springs’ are the ropes used on a ship that is alongside a berth to prevent fore and aft movements.

   7. (figuratively) A race, a lineage.
   8. (figuratively) A youth.
   9. A shoot, a young tree.
   10. A grove of trees; a forest.
6. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (countable, nautical, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
   • 1846, Arthur Young, Nautical Dictionary, p. 292:

     A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring.

8. (uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
   1. Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.

      Synonyms: bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness

   2. Elastic energy, power, or force.
      • 1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8:

        Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
        How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!
9. (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Psalms 87:7:

     As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee.

   • 1693, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism..., Sermon 1:

     Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him, he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 1:

     ‘Have you ever contemplated, Adrian, the phenomenon of springs?’
     ‘Coils, you mean?’
     ‘Not coils, Adrian, no. Coils not. Think springs of water. Think wells and spas and sources. Well-springs in the widest and loveliest sense. Jerusalem, for instance, is a spring of religiosity. One small town in the desert, but the source of the world’s three most powerful faiths... Religion seems to bubble from its sands.’

   Synonyms: impetus, impulse

10. (countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
    1. A cause, a motive, etc.
       • 1713, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Cato, a Tragedy by Joseph Addison

         Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move
         The hero's glory, or the virgin's love.

    2. (obsolete) A lively piece of music.

Usage notes

Note that season names are not capitalized in modern English unless at the beginning of a sentence, for example, I can't wait for spring to arrive. Exceptions occur when the season is personified, as in Old Man Winter, is used as part of a name, as in the Winter War, or is used as a given name, as in Summer Glau. This is in contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always capitalized (Thursday or September).

Synonyms

• (time of growth, early stages): See Thesaurus:beginning

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• geyser
• Hooke's law
• seep
• Slinky
• vernal
• well

References

• “spring, n¹.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017
• “spring, n².”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017
• “spring, n³.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017
• “spring, v¹.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017
• “spring, v².”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017
• “spring, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018.
• “springen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018.

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to springe.

Noun

spring n (singular definite springet, plural indefinite spring)

1. spring, jump, vault, leap

Declension

Related terms

Verb

spring

1. imperative of springe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spr??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

spring

1. first-person singular present indicative of springen
2. imperative of springen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???/

Verb

spring

1. singular imperative of springen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of springen

Icelandic

Verb

spring

1. inflection of springa:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

• springe

Etymology

From Old English spring, spryng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprin?/, [spri??]

Noun

spring (plural springes)

1. spring, (natural) fountain, font.
2. sprout, shoot
3. sunrise
4. leap, jump
5. (rare) spring (season)

Descendants

• English: spring
• Scots: spring

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

spring

1. imperative of springe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spring

1. present of springa

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spr??]

Noun

spring (plural springs)

1. spring, springtime
2. growth of vegetation in springtime

Verb

tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springin, simple past sprang, past participle sprung)

1. to spring
2. to leap over, cross at a bound
3. to put forth, send up or out
4. to burst, split, break apart, break into
5. to dance a reel

Swedish

Noun

spring n

1. a running (back and forth)
   • 1918, Goss-skolan i Plumfield, the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)

     Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten.

     The afternoon was spent in arranging things, and when the running and lugging and hammering was over, the ladies were invited to behold the institution.

Declension

Verb

spring

1. imperative of springa.