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# spring

«spring» in Mova's school dictionary: **the season after winter and before summer, when plants…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spring, springs); verb (spring, springs, sprang, sprung, springing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spring is the season after winter and before summer, when plants start to grow. Spring is a season of 3 months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#m1)

2) A spring is a coil of metal that goes back to its shape after you press or pull it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#m2)

3) A spring is a place where water comes up out of the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#m3)

4) To spring is to jump quickly: «the cat sprang onto the wall». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a season of three months; or springs counted as things; in science: in spring days get longer, flowers bloom, birds build nests and lambs are born; springs store energy (in a pen, a trampoline, a bed); in geography: a spring is a source of a river; phrases: «spring cleaning», «spring up» (appear suddenly), «hot spring»

### examples

- In spring they planted 40 trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x1)
- Spring has 3 months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x2)
- A box has 12 springs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x3)
- Birds lay eggs in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x4)
- In spring the days get longer and warmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x5)
- Press the spring and it bounces back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x6)
- The river starts at a spring in the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x7)
- The cat sprang onto the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x8)
- In Australia, spring starts in September. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x9)
- We do our spring cleaning every year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x10)
- Spring came, and the fishing began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/#x11)

### note

Mostly a story word; hidden fact: a season has 3 months. Seasons are opposite in the north (USA, UK) and the south (Australia, New Zealand). In science, a spring stretches more when you hang more weight on it. Past: sprang, sprung.

### In the corpora

- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)
- [The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/12/)
- [Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/5/)
- [Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/10/)
- [The rainbow colours of hot springs in Yellowstone come from different bacteria living at different temperatures, some in water near boiling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.