springnoun
uk/sprɪŋ/us/sprɪŋ/spring noun (SEASON)
A2 [ C or U ] the season of the year between winter and summer, lasting from March to June north of the equator, and from September to December south of the equator, when the weather becomes warmer, leaves and plants start to grow again and flowers appear:
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- Cutting the bush back in the autumn will help promote vigorous growth in the spring.
- The short hemline is very much in vogue this spring.
- We decided to have a spring break in Paris.
- The blackbird, like most birds, breeds in the spring.
- The papers are predicting that the prime minister will call an election in the spring.
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Names of months
- autumn
- autumnal
- dead
- depth
- estival
- fall
- in the dead of night/winter idiom
- in the depth(s) of winter idiom
- midsummer
- monsoon
- rain
- season
- seasonal
- seasonality
- seasonally
- spring fever
- summertime
- vernal
- winter
- wintertime
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spring noun (CURVED METAL)
[ C ] a piece of curved or bent metal that can be pressed into a smaller space but then returns to its usual shape:
[ U ] something's ability to return to its usual shape after it has been pressed:
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Spherical, circular and annular objects
- ball
- blob
- bobble
- bowling ball
- bubble
- cylinder
- disc
- egg
- game ball
- glob
- globule
- hoop
- orb
- pellet
- pommel
- ring
- roll
- sphere
- spool
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spring noun (WATER)
C1 [ C ] also springs a place where water naturally flows out from the ground:
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Parts of watercourses
- artesian well
- basin
- confluence
- delta
- drainage basin
- estuary
- firth
- geyser
- head
- lock
- lock-keeper
- meander
- midstream
- mooring
- mouth
- reach
- towpath
- tributary
- water table
- weir
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Idiom(s)
springverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/sprɪŋ/us/sprɪŋ/sprang or US also sprung, sprungspring verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] (MOVE QUICKLY)
C2 to move quickly and suddenly towards a particular place:
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- gallop
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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spring verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] (APPEAR SUDDENLY)
C2 informal to appear suddenly:
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Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- emerge
- emergence
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- form
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- wither
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Phrasal verb(s)
springadjective
uk/sprɪŋ//sprɪŋ/US UK sprung(of furniture) using springs (= curved pieces of metal) to give support
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Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- floppy
- flowing
- jointed
- loose
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- slackness
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- yield
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