A Quick and Simple Dictionary

spring

1. Verb.  To start to exist.
2. Verb.  To jump or leap.
3. Verb.  (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
4. Noun.  (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.
5. Noun.  (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern).
6. Noun.  (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 20 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See (pedialite, Spring (season)) for other variations.).
7. Noun.  (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.
8. Noun.  (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
9. Noun.  (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
10. Noun.  (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
11. Noun.  (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.
12. Noun.  (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
13. Noun.  (countable) The source of an action.