different between sprint vs surge

English

Alternative forms

• sprunt (dialectal)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijan?, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintan? (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprend?- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
3. (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.

Translations

Anagrams

• prints

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprint m

1. sprint

Related terms

• sprintovat
• sprinter m

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spr?nt/
• Hyphenation: sprint
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)

1. sprint

Derived terms

• eindsprint
• massasprint
• sprinten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?int/

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint, short top-speed race.

Further reading

• “sprint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprint m (invariable)

1. sprint (short, fast race)
2. vivacity, brio

sprint f (invariable)

1. A motor car having strong acceleration

Romanian

Etymology

From French sprint.

Noun

sprint n (plural sprinturi)

1. sprint

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

spr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. sprint

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?p?int/, [es?p??n?t?]

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. Alternative spelling of esprint

Further reading

• “sprint” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surg?, contr. of surrig?, subrig? (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + reg? (“to stretch”); see regent.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: sûrj IPA^(key): /s?d?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?
• Homophone: serge

Noun

surge (plural surges)

1. A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.

2. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
3. (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.

4. (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
5. (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
   • 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6

     He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

   • He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.

6. (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     all great rivers are gorged and assembled of various surges and springs of water

7. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.

Synonyms

• inrush

Derived terms

• countersurge
• surgeless

Translations

Verb

surge (third-person singular simple present surges, present participle surging, simple past and past participle surged)

1. (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
2. To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
3. (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.

Related terms

• source

Translations

References

• surge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• surge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• FM 55-501

Anagrams

• Ruges, grues, urges

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -urd?e

Verb

surge

1. third-person singular present indicative of surgere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sur.?e/, [?s??r??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sur.d??e/, [?surd???]

Verb

surge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of surg?
   • (Matt. IX. v.5)

            Arise, and walk. (KJV)

Portuguese

Verb

surge

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of surgir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of surgir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?xe/, [?su?.xe]

Verb

surge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of surgir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of surgir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of surgir.