What part of speech is spring?

Spring can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. spring is a verb, present, 1st person singular of spring (infinitive).
  • 2. spring is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. spring is a noun, singular of springs.

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Verb

Noun

What does spring mean?

Definitions

Verb
spring - develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"
spring - produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"
spring - move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
spring - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
spring - develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape"

Noun
spring - a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"
spring - a natural flow of ground water
spring - the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year"
spring - a point at which water issues forth
spring - a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
spring - the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
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Examples of spring

#   Sentence  
1. noun The spring was broken.
2. noun The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring.
3. noun He will hold office until the spring of next year.
4. noun His explosive temper probably provoked the disastrous siege of Fallujah last spring, killing 600 Iraqis, most of them women and children, in revenge for the deaths of 4 civilian mercenaries, one of them a South African.
5. noun On August 9, 2004, it was announced that in the Spring of 2001, a man named El-Shukrijumah, also known as Jafar the Pilot, who was part of a "second wave," had been casing New York City helicopters.
6. noun Emails from Zawahiri to Atef in the Spring of 1999 indicate that Ayman was a close student of the USAMRIID anthrax program.
7. noun Senator Patrick Leahy at a Congressional hearing in the Spring of 2002 noted that the FBI had collected the Ames strain from 20 sources.
8. noun I would like to come down to Austin this spring to meet with you to further discuss my application file and to personally meet you.
9. noun Bradley's record of 300 phenophases found that even prior to 1999, spring was arriving in higher latitudes several weeks earlier than in the earlier years of her data.
10. noun Throughout the United States, she said, "spring is about two weeks earlier.
11. noun "When dandelions have set the mark of May on Wisconsin pastures, it is time to listen for the final proof of spring," wrote Aldo Leopold in "A Sand County Almanac."
12. noun For example, some snakes will routinely go off their food in both the summer and winter, feeding mainly in spring and fall.
13. noun I graduate in the spring, and so we'd like to go between then and winter.
14. noun Spring (February to April) and Autumn (August to October) make good alternatives, although the country’s ever-growing popularity as a tourist destination can often blur the lines between mid- and high-season tourism.
15. noun We had frosts in October so I wouldn't advise visiting late in the year to be honest, Spring time is your best bet.
16. verb I spring out of the darkness.
17. verb I spring with a start.
18. verb Failures often spring from ignorance.
19. verb English abounds in words like "polydipsiac": never used, but ready to spring into existence when required.
20. verb Tom's peculiar attitude on the matter doesn't spring from any one cause.
21. verb Waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow.
22. verb And thereupon began a mighty combat between George and the dragon; and whenever the dragon came near to George his dog would spring at one of his paws, and when one of the heads reared back to deal with it George's horse would spring to that side, and George's sword would sweep that head away.
23. verb "Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future."
24. verb And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.
25. verb And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
26. verb But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts, to cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields.
27. verb When will spring finally be back?
28. verb Everyone knows Mary is not likely to spring a surprise.
29. verb When on earth will spring come?
Sentence  
noun
The spring was broken.
The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring.
He will hold office until the spring of next year.
His explosive temper probably provoked the disastrous siege of Fallujah last spring, killing 600 Iraqis, most of them women and children, in revenge for the deaths of 4 civilian mercenaries, one of them a South African.
On August 9, 2004, it was announced that in the Spring of 2001, a man named El-Shukrijumah, also known as Jafar the Pilot, who was part of a "second wave," had been casing New York City helicopters.
Emails from Zawahiri to Atef in the Spring of 1999 indicate that Ayman was a close student of the USAMRIID anthrax program.
Senator Patrick Leahy at a Congressional hearing in the Spring of 2002 noted that the FBI had collected the Ames strain from 20 sources.
I would like to come down to Austin this spring to meet with you to further discuss my application file and to personally meet you.
Bradley's record of 300 phenophases found that even prior to 1999, spring was arriving in higher latitudes several weeks earlier than in the earlier years of her data.
Throughout the United States, she said, "spring is about two weeks earlier.
"When dandelions have set the mark of May on Wisconsin pastures, it is time to listen for the final proof of spring," wrote Aldo Leopold in "A Sand County Almanac."
For example, some snakes will routinely go off their food in both the summer and winter, feeding mainly in spring and fall.
I graduate in the spring, and so we'd like to go between then and winter.
Spring (February to April) and Autumn (August to October) make good alternatives, although the country’s ever-growing popularity as a tourist destination can often blur the lines between mid- and high-season tourism.
We had frosts in October so I wouldn't advise visiting late in the year to be honest, Spring time is your best bet.
verb
I spring out of the darkness.
I spring with a start.
Failures often spring from ignorance.
English abounds in words like "polydipsiac": never used, but ready to spring into existence when required.
Tom's peculiar attitude on the matter doesn't spring from any one cause.
Waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow.
And thereupon began a mighty combat between George and the dragon; and whenever the dragon came near to George his dog would spring at one of his paws, and when one of the heads reared back to deal with it George's horse would spring to that side, and George's sword would sweep that head away.
"Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future."
And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.
And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts, to cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields.
When will spring finally be back?
Everyone knows Mary is not likely to spring a surprise.
When on earth will spring come?
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