spring

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
2. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
3. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
4. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move or burst forth.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To move or burst forth.
6. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes) To move or burst forth.
7. (figuratively, intransitive, usually) To move or burst forth.
8. (intransitive, usually) To move or burst forth.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) To move or burst forth.
10. (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
11. (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
12. (transitive) To leap over.
13. (obsolete) To breed with, to impregnate.
14. (obsolete, transitive) To wet, to moisten.
15. (intransitive, usually) To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
16. (obsolete) To go off.
17. (ambitransitive, perfective, usually) To crack.
18. To come upon and flush out.
19. (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
20. (obsolete) To begin.
21. (obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
22. To tell, to share.
23. (US, slang, transitive) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
24. (intransitive, rare, slang) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
25. (transitive) To build, to form the initial curve of.
26. (intransitive) To extend, to curve.
27. (transitive) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
28. (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
29. (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To raise an offered price.
30. (US, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, transitive) Alternative form of sprain.
31. (US, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, transitive) Alternative form of strain.
32. (intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
33. (rare, transitive) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
34. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) to inspire, to motivate.
35. (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
36. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
37. (archaic, transitive) To sound, to play.
38. To find or get enough food during springtime.

Noun

1. (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
2. (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
3. (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
4. (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
5. (figuratively, uncountable) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
7. (countable) 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.
8. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
11. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
12. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
13. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
14. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
16. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
17. (countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
18. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
19. (countable, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
20. (countable, uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
21. (countable, uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
22. (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
23. (countable, uncountable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
24. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

Concepts

printemps

source

sauter

ressort

fontaine

⛲

puits

saut

bondir

bond

émaner

mouillère

jaillir

provenir

printanier

poindre

ricocher

sautiller

se déclencher

origine

piège sauter

quelque chose

quelqu’un

rebondir

remonter

revenir

son

🔉

sourdre

tirer

voler

déchaînement

découler de

élancer

être joyeux

faire des folies

gambade

issu

provenir de

rebond

se dresser

sortir de

être encouragé

être stimulé

rebondire

sauter en l’air

de source

eau thermale

originer

à

fontinal

borne

Opposé de

neap tide

Synonymes

jump

leap

fountain

⛲

bound

source

springtime

well

bounce

hop

skip

fount

vault

rebound

originate

arise

grow

sprout

vernal

saltation

recoil

prance

rise

plunge

stem

key

🔑

come

jump up

natural spring

fountainhead

shoot

cascade

waterfall

elasticity

start

resile

dance

💃

proceed

dive

water source

outpouring

outflow

origin

summer

🏖️

mainspring

machine

leaping

stream

springtide

issue

result

Traductions

primavera

primavera

Frühling

Quelle

lente

Feder

🪶

manantial

fuente

primavera

sorgente

bron

fonte

άνοιξη

Frühjahr

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɹɪŋ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: springen

Hérité de ancien anglais: springan

Appartenant à saterlandais: springe

Appartenant à frison occidental: springe

Appartenant à néerlandais: springen

Appartenant à allemand: springen

Appartenant à danois: springe

Appartenant à suédois: springa

Appartenant à norvégien: springe

Appartenant à féroïen: springa

Appartenant à islandais: springa

Appartenant à lituanien: spreñgti

Appartenant à slavon d’église: прѧсти

Appartenant à latin: spargere

Appartenant à grec ancien: σπέρχω

Appartenant à sanskrit: स्पृहयति

Hérité de moyen anglais: spryng

Hérité de ancien anglais: spring

Hérité de ancien anglais: spryng

In summary

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sper- (“to jerk, twitch, snap, shove”).
Cognates
* Saterland Frisian springe
* West Frisian springe
* Dutch springen
* German Low German springen
* German springen
* Danish springe
* Swedish springa
* Norwegian springe
* Faroese springa
* Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”).
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

Phrases

We went rafting in Switzerland and alpine skiing in Austria this spring .

Nous avons fait du rafting en Suisse et au ski alpin en Autriche ce printemps.