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stock
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: st?k, IPA(key): /st?k/
- (US) enPR: stäk, IPA(key): /st?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: stalk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Old English stocc, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Noun
stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks or (obsolete) stocken)
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Ellipsis of film stock
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- lineage, family, ancestry.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A ski pole.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
- Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- (Britain, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (farm or ranch animals): livestock
- (railroad equipment): rolling stock
- (raw material): feedstock
- (paper for printing): card stock
- (plant used in grafting): rootstock, understock
- (axle attached to rudder): rudder stock
- (wide necktie): stock-tie
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Translations
Adjective
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
Translations
See also
- DJIA
- foodstock
Etymology 2
From Italian stoccata.
Noun
stock (plural stocks)
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Anagrams
- 'tocks, tocks
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
Noun
stock m (plural stocks, diminutive stockje n)
- stock, goods in supply
- basic capital
- shares (equity)
Derived terms
- stockdividend n
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?k/
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- stock, goods in supply
- stock, a reserve (generally)
- Supply of (wild) fish available for commerce, stock
Derived terms
- stocker
- stockage
Further reading
- “stock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Noun
stock
- stock, goods in supply, inventory
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?to?/, [es?t?o??]
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- stock, inventory
Further reading
- “stock” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stokker, from Old Norse stokkr, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Noun
stock c
- a log (trunk of a dead tree)
- a stock (of a gun)
- a pack of snus, usually ten, wrapped in plastic film or packed in a light cardboard box
- Synonyms: rulle, limpa
Declension
Related terms
- ekstock
- stocka
- stockeld
- Stockholm
- stockning
- timmerstock
See also
- balk
- bjälke
- flottning
- stam
- stuga
- timmer
- virke
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spring
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)
- (intransitive) To burst forth.
- (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.
- ...for swenge swat ædrum sprong
- 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...
- Beowulf, ll. 2966–7:
- (of water, now mostly followed by "out" or "up") To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- (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.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Judges, 19:25:
- (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.
- Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
- 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.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Job, 38:25–27:
- (now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
- (hunting, especially of birds) To rise from cover.
- (of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
- (figuratively) to arise, to come into existence.
- Synonyms: arise, form, take shape
- (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...
- ...the Mountain Stag, that springs
- 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.
- ...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
- 2011 April 11, The Atlantic:
- Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...
- Synonyms: bound, jump, leap
- c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v:
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- (figuratively, religion, philosophy) to descend or originate from.
- (obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
- (obsolete, of knowledge, usually with wide) To become known, to spread.
- (obsolete, of odors) To emit, to spread.
- (of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- (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.
- A ?ong kni?t, þat sprong furst [berd],
- c. 1330,, "Otuel", The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, ll. 1445–6:
- (transitive) To cause to burst forth.
- (rare, of water) To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- (figuratively, of plants) To bring forth.
- (obsolete) permit to bring forth new shoots, leaves, etc.
- (obsolete, of knowledge) To cause to become known, to tell of.
- (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.
- 1986 April 25, Horse & Hound, p. 40:
- (hunting, of birds) To cause to rise from cover.
- (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.
- 1833, Regulations for the Instruction... of the Cavalry, i, i, 29:
- (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...
- 1585, Thomas Washington translating Nicolas De Nicolay as The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie..., Bk. IV, p. 154:
- (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.
- 1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
- (transitive, obsolete) To make wet, to moisten.
- (intransitive, usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- (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.
- 1698, François Froger, A Relation of a Voyage Made... on the Coasts of Africa, p. 30:
- (obsolete, military) to go off.
- 2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 5:
- The whole contraption appears liable to spring apart at any moment.
- 2012 April 21, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 5:
- (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.
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. II, x, ix:
- (intransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- 2011, Julian Stockwin, Conquest, p. 177:
- Probably the mast had sprung in some squall.
- 2011, Julian Stockwin, Conquest, p. 177:
- (transitive, nautical) To have something crack.
- 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
- The Edward sprang hir foremast.
- 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
- (transitive, nautical) To cause to crack.
- a. 1653, Zacharie Boyd, "Zion's Flowers":
- A boisterous wind...
Springs the... mast...
- A boisterous wind...
- a. 1653, Zacharie Boyd, "Zion's Flowers":
- (transitive, figuratively) To surprise by sudden or deft action.
- 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.
- 1819, James Hardy Vaux, "A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language", Memoirs, Vol. II, s.v. "Plant":
- (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.
- 1980, John Hepworth & al., Boozing Out in Melbourne Pubs..., p. 42:
- (obsolete) To begin something.
- (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.
- Surpriz'd with Fright,
- 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.
- 1700, John Dryden translating Ovid as "Cinyras and Myrrha" in Fables, p. 178:
- (obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
- (obsolete, of jokes, gags) To tell, to share.
- (of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- Synonyms: free, let out, release, spring loose
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To come upon and flush out
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To raise a vessel's sheer.
- (transitive, obsolete, cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
- (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.
- 1957, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Over Seventy, p. 137:
- (obsolete, intransitive, slang) To raise an offered price.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, rare, obsolete) To provide spring or elasticity
- (figuratively, rare, obsolete) to inspire, to motivate.
- (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.
- 1873 July, Routledge's Young Gentleman's Magazine, p. 503:
- (intransitive, now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
- (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.
- 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, Chapter 15, p. 228,[2]
- (transitive, of rattles, archaic) To sound, to play.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To spend the springtime somewhere
- (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)
- (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.
- The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke;
- 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox":
- (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
- (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.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (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...
- 1611, Bible (KJV), 1 Samuel 9:26:
- (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.
- (countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- Synonyms: fount, source
- (oceanography, obsolete) The rising of the sea at high tide.
- (oceanography) Short for spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- Antonym: neap tide
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- Synonym: coil
- (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.
- 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, Vol. III, p. 72:
- (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.
- 1769, William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, s.v.:
- (figuratively) A race, a lineage.
- (figuratively) A youth.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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.
- 1846, Arthur Young, Nautical Dictionary, p. 292:
- (uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- Synonyms: bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness
- 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!
- Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
- 1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8:
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- (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.’
- ‘Have you ever contemplated, Adrian, the phenomenon of springs?’
- Synonyms: impetus, impulse
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Psalms 87:7:
- (countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
- 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.
- Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Cato, a Tragedy by Joseph Addison
- (obsolete) A lively piece of music.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
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)
- spring, jump, vault, leap
Declension
Related terms
Verb
spring
- imperative of springe
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spr??/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
spring
- first-person singular present indicative of springen
- imperative of springen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p???/
Verb
spring
- singular imperative of springen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of springen
Icelandic
Verb
spring
- inflection of springa:
- first-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Middle English
Alternative forms
- springe
Etymology
From Old English spring, spryng.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sprin?/, [spri??]
Noun
spring (plural springes)
- spring, (natural) fountain, font.
- sprout, shoot
- sunrise
- leap, jump
- (rare) spring (season)
Descendants
- English: spring
- Scots: spring
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
spring
- imperative of springe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spring
- present of springa
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [spr??]
Noun
spring (plural springs)
- spring, springtime
- growth of vegetation in springtime
Verb
tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springin, simple past sprang, past participle sprung)
- to spring
- to leap over, cross at a bound
- to put forth, send up or out
- to burst, split, break apart, break into
- to dance a reel
Swedish
Noun
spring n
- 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.
- Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten.
- 1918, Goss-skolan i Plumfield, the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
Declension
Verb
spring
- imperative of springa.
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- what springfield is 800 miles from cincinnati
- what springfield is the simpsons
- what spring clamp is not adjustable
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