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Definition: Spring |
SpringAdjective1. Occurring in or appropriate to the season of spring; "spring rains"; "springtime activities". Noun1. The season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year". 2. A natural flow of ground water. 3. A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken". 4. A light springing movement upwards or forwards. 5. The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length. 6. A point at which water issues forth. Verb1. Move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?". 2. Develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape". 3. Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide". 4. Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife". 5. Develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak". 6. Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Spring" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the spring". |
Date "spring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | SPRING String PRocessING language. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Industry | Made from sheet metal, wire or rod of an elastic quality, in such a way that it has the property of returning to its original form even after considerable displacement. Source: European Union. (references) |
19th Century Satire | Formerly a very delightful season but now obsolete except in poetry and the Old Farmer's Almanac. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Spring (Heb. 'ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "well" (q.v.). "Springs" mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. 'ashdoth) should rather be "declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that spring is advancing, is a sign of fortunate undertakings and cheerful companions. To see spring appearing unnaturally, is a foreboding of disquiet and losses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | Ground water seeping out of the earth where the water table intersects the ground surface. (references) |
Geography | A natural flow of water from the earth's surface, generally issuing strongly though at times it may just ooze or seep out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | An issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain; a source of a reservoir of water. (references) |
Industry | In sawmilling, the distortion of timber as it comes from the saw under growth or drying stresses. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A distortion whereby the long(itudinal)edges curve into a shallow arch in the plane of the faces. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. To enlarge the bottom of a drill hole by small charges of a high explosive in order to make room for the full charge; to chamber a drill hole. See also:camouflet b. To chamber. See also:chamber c. A general name for any natural discharge of hot or cold pure ormineralized water. (references) |
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Spring has several meanings:
Spring is also the name of a place in the state of Texas in the United States of America: see Spring, Texas. In addition, there are places named Hot Springs, Sandy Springs, Lithia Springs, Silver Spring, and Silver Springs.
- a mechanical device: spring (device)
- a season of the year: spring (season)
- water from the earth: spring (water)
Springs is a place in South Africa: see Springs This is a Wikipedia disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix it.
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A spring is a flexible elastic object used to store mechanical energy. The most common types of spring are helical spring, coil spring (at left), and leaf spring, and they are commonly made out of steel or brass. (See also shock absorber.)
A belleville spring is a disc shaped spring commonly used to apply tension and also in the initiation mechanism of pressure-activated landmines.
The image at left is a special kind of spring known as a slinky.
In Physics, spring can have potential energy.
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Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. Astronomically, it begins with the spring equinox (around March 21st in the Northern hemisphere, and September 23rd in the Southern hemisphere), and ends with the summer solstice (around June 21st in the Northern hemisphere and December 21st in the Southern hemisphere). Frequently, it is instead counted instead as the whole months of March, April, and May in the Northern hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern hemisphere, especially by meteorologists, and generally by the public.As in summer, the axial tilt of the Earth is toward the Sun, and daylight hours are greater than or equal to 12 hours. The hemisphere begins to warm significantly, causing new plant growth to spring forth, giving the season its name. Snow (if any) begins to melt, and rivers and streams swell with runoff and spring rains. Most flowering plants bloom this time of year, in a long succession beginning even when snow is still on the ground, and continuing into early summer. In normally snowless areas, "spring" may begin as early as February during warmer years, with subtropical areas having very subtle differences, and tropical ones none at all. Subarctic areas may not see "spring" at all until May or even June, or December in the outer Antarctic.
Severe weather most often occurs during the spring, when warm air begins to invade from lower latitudes while cold air is still pushing from the polar regions. Flooding is also most common in and near mountainous areas during this time of year due to snowmelt, many times accelerated by warm rains. In the U.S, Tornado Alley is most active by far this time of year, especially since the Rocky Mountains prevent the surging hot and cold airmasses from spreading westward and instead force them directly at each other. Besides tornados, supercell thunderstorms can also produce dangerously large hail and very high winds, for which a severe thunderstorm warning or even tornado warning is usually issued. Often, spring storms trigger dozens of warnings, one right after the other, often simultaneously along a line hundreds of miles or kilometers long. Even more so than winter, the jet streams play an important role in severe weather in the springtime.
Some of the worst blizzards have occurred in the spring. including the Great Blizzard of 1993, which brought hurricane conditions and then light snow to northern Florida on March 13th, and deposited up to five feet or 1.5 meters of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. A massive springtime "upslope" winter storm in 2003 brought up to eleven feet or 3.3 meters of snow to parts of Colorado and three feet or 90cm to Denver, which gets more snow in March and April (and again in October and November) than during the entire winter (December to February).
Hurricane season also begins in late spring, on May 15th in the northeastern Pacific and June 1st in the northern Atlantic. Prior to these dates, hurricanes are almost unheard of and even tropical storms are exceedingly rare, one of the earliest ever being Tropical Storm Ana in mid-April 2003.
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A spring is a place where an underground stream flows out of the ground. By analogy, a fountain can also be called a spring. See also hot spring, well, source.
As it flows underground, a stream picks up minerals from rocks, and so water flowing from a spring is often bottled and sold as mineral water.
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Spring is a town located in Harris County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 36,385.Klein Bank & Trust is based in Spring.
Geography
Spring is located at 30°3'15" North, 95°23'13" West (30.054127, -95.386991)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 62.1 km² (24.0 mi²). 62.0 km² (23.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.13% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 36,385 people, 12,302 households, and 9,829 families residing in the town. The population density is 586.8/km² (1,520.0/mi²). There are 12,714 housing units at an average density of 205.1/km² (531.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 83.01% White, 6.99% African American, 0.51% Native American, 1.42% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 5.62% from other races, and 2.31% from two or more races. 16.06% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 12,302 households out of which 46.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.9% are married couples living together, 12.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.1% are non-families. 15.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 2.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.96 and the average family size is 3.30. In the town the population is spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 33.8% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 4.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 95.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $56,662, and the median income for a family is $60,934. Males have a median income of $42,134 versus $30,270 for females. The per capita income for the town is $21,027. 4.1% of the population and 3.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.7% are under the age of 18 and 4.5% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spring, Texas."
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In astronomy, the vernal equinox (spring equinox, march equinox, or northward equinox) is the equinox at the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere: the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading northward. The equinox occurs around March 20-22, varying slightly each year according to the 400 year cycle of leap years in the Gregorian Calendar. At the present time, the vernal equinox occurs as the sun moves through the constellation Pisces. 2000 years ago the equinox was in Aries and by 2600 it will be in Aquarius.
In the southern hemisphere, the equinox occurs at the same moment, but at the beginning of autumn. There are two conventions for dealing with this: either the name of the equinox can be changed to the autumnal equinox, or (apparently more commonly) the name is unchanged and it is accepted that it is out of sync with the season. The alternative terms March equinox or northward equinox avoid any such ambiguity.
At the equinox, the sun rises directly in the east and sets directly in the west. In the northern hemisphere, before the vernal equinox, the sun rises and sets more and more to the south, and afterwards, it rises and sets more and more to the north.
This is when the Neopagan Sabbat of Ostara (or Eostar) is celebrated. Also, Vernal Equinox Day (春分の日) is an official national holiday in Japan, and is spent visiting family graves, and holding family reunions.
Also see:
- Solstice
- Summer solstice
- Winter solstice
- First Point of Aries
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Synonyms: SpringSynonyms: spring(a) (adj), springtime(a) (adj), bound (n), fountain (n), give (n), leap (n), leaping (n), natural spring (n), outflow (n), outpouring (n), saltation (n), springiness (n), springtime (n), bounce (v), form (v), jump (v), rebound (v), recoil (v), resile (v), ricochet (v), take a hop (v), take form (v), take shape (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
Elasticity | Noun: elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. |
Adjective: elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant; ductile, stretchable, extendable. | |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Leap | Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes. |
Noun: leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation. | |
Recoil | Ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist. |
Store | Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow. |
Strength | Noun: strength; power; energy; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
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Screenplays | In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream of spring. Ciao (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Maybe next spring you'll teach me how to hit. (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) | |
Lyrics | There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) The only thing I sling is condoms for spring break (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) It looks like spring and (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) When I became a father in the spring of '81 (Love Without End Amen; performing artist: George Strait) It's the last day of spring, see you first day this summer (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spring and Autumn (1972) Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971) Dark spring (1970) Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) The Spring Is Here Oh (1968) | |
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 | Late spring on Mars (centered on roughly 160, 210, and 305 degrees longitude). Credit: NASA. |  | Crossing Amargosa River after spring rains Level crew of Paul Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Survey launch off of PEIRCE Late spring in Penobscot Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | East side of Portsmouth Square, spring of 1850. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 358. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A full moon portends spring tides and clamming season. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Clean Air Facility highlighted by the spring sunrise. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Photo #1 -The first spring flight back on its way to McMurdo. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Looe Key, Florida 1984 Spring. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
 | Upper Spring Creek above the influence of Iron Mountain Mine; note the normal riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Spring Creek , looking into the sun, from Keswick Reservoir near Redding, CA. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Spring flowers (contrast)" by Johanna B. Commentary: "Another version." | "Spring" by PKremer Commentary: "Springbreak." |
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 | A synthesized spring sound. | | A spring coil being sprung; bouncing; jaw harp making a high-pitched boing sound. |
| Short boing of a sprung spring. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. |
Edmund Burke | Falsehood has a perennial spring. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | Now spring brings back balmy warmth. |
Jean De La BruyFre | All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? |
Plutarch | The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. |
Titus Livy | Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Those who say otherwise, speak as if the prince had a distinct and separate interest from the good of the community, and was not made for it; the root and source from which spring almost all those evils and disorders which happen in kingly governments. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The spring I always think requires more than common care |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Twelve! He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Its hurricanes spring sometimes from a wry face |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was a raw spring morning and his eyes were still smarting and weak |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology |
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Health | Adult female ticks lay eggs on the ground in early spring. (references) | |
They induce colds primarily in the winter and early spring. (references) | ||
Rodent spring traps may be set up in households or dwellings where rodent infestations are a concern. (references) | ||
Business | The Spring 2000 launch of trial WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) networks in China’s major cities marked a turning point in China’s Internet. (references) | |
Estonian power, telephone and mobile telephone companies will give their customers the choice of receiving e-bills through the Internet beginning next Spring. (references) | ||
Although OECD negotiations concluded in the spring of 1992 succeeded in establishing criteria which are supposed to govern the eligibility of projects in developing countries to receive tied soft credits. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Guinea | The Government did not close any roads during the year; however, it did require armed escorts in early spring and early summer due to cross border attacks and violence in the region. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The number of individuals arrested for their perceived religious extremism appeared to have decreased overall during the year, although there was a temporary increase during the spring. (references) | |
Russia | Federal refugee policy aimed at repatriating IDP's as soon as possible back to Chechnya; however, federal authorities promised during the spring that no one would be repatriated forcibly. (references) | |
Economic History | Tajikistan | Flooding sometimes occurs during the annual Spring thaw. (references) |
Nigeria | In the spring of 1989, political activity was again permitted. (references) | |
Spain | This presents opportunities for exporters of U.S. Hard Red Spring. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | According to the family members of prisoners, authorities at Jaslik also made some improvements prior to the visit of the ICRC during the spring. (references) |
Lithuania | The commission, which includes historians, human rights representatives, representatives of international Jewish organizations, and lawyers from Lithuania and a number of foreign countries, produced its first reports in the spring. (references) | |
Russia | In 2000 Russian forces began a large-scale offensive military campaign in Chechnya; that offensive campaign largely ended following federal occupation of most of Chechnya by the late spring of 2000, although federal forces remained engaged in an intensive anti-insurgency campaign against Chechen guerillas. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Denmark | A ruling was expected in the spring of 2002. (references) |
Minorities | Ukraine | Jewish community representatives were disturbed by the presence of anti-Semitic slogans in anti-Kuchma demonstrations that took place in the spring. (references) |
Uganda | However, the backlash from the spring 2000 killing of more than 1,000 citizens at the hands of a religious group resulted in negative public attitudes towards fringe Christian groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | Greece | The next national elections must be held by the spring of 2004. (references) |
RUSSIA | Final approval of a new code is not expected until the spring of 2002, at the earliest. (references) | |
UKRAINE | This requirement was slated for removal in the spring of 2000, but it is still in place. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | Pilot elections for the heads of local administrations were held in 16 villages in the spring and in 9 cities during the summer. (references) |
Trade | Russia | By spring 2000, banks in the country experienced moderate improvement as their capital increased 2.8 times over the previous year. (references) |
Switzerland | The revised law, in spite of considerable opposition, is expected to be put into effect as of spring, 2002. This will bring Swiss anti-cartel legislation to the same level as that applied by the EU. (references) | |
Travel | Lithuania | Imported spring water is available at many stores. (references) |
Greece | Growing tourist travel makes advance hotel reservations advisable, particularly beginning in late spring and summer. (references) | |
Costa Rica | The perennial spring climate, scenic beauty, housing, food, and ancillary services make Costa Rica a comfortable place to live. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | On October 13 in Casablanca, the Spring of Equality and other organizations held a conference regarding the role of women in the elections. (references) |
Morocco | However, in September, the ADFM and nine other organizations, collectively named the Spring of Equality, issued a communique concerning the Moudawana. (references) | |
Liechtenstein | Every year in the spring, the Government adopts an action plan to promote equal opportunity for both women and men, and each fall the Government's Bureau for the Promotion of Equal Rights for Women and Men publishes a progress report. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | In June the unions appealed this ruling and the 3 union members were awarded additional leave; however, the Commission denied subsequent requests in the spring by 19 other union members who sought similar compensation. (references) |
Colombia | It has also designed a project to collect more reliable national data on child labor; results are expected in Spring 2002. The law prohibits forced and bonded labor by children; however, the Government is unable to enforce this prohibition effectively. (references) | |
United Kingdom | When introduced in 1999, the new pay thresholds were expected to benefit some 1.5 million workers directly; however, according to Government figures from the spring, 320,000 jobs were held by persons age 18 and over that paid less than the national minimum wage. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm |
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Jim Morris | I missed my kids. I talked to my son on the phone one day in spring training last year when I was with the Dodgers. And he said how much longer are you going to do this. I miss you. And I quit. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The gun boats authorized by an act of the last session are so advanced that they will be ready for service in the ensuing spring. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | As soon as the survey of the coast is completed, which it is expected will be done early in the next spring, the engineers employed in it will proceed to examine for like purposes the northern and northwestern frontiers. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Since last spring our economic growth rate has actually receded. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Your vote this spring on the Peacekeeper missile will be a critical test of our resolve to maintain the strength we need and move toward mutual and verifiable arms reductions. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That is why I will visit there in the spring to reinforce our important tie. |
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| "Spring" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Spring" is used about 5,691 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.47% | 5,092 | 1,927 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.11% | 291 | 17,055 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.65% | 265 | 18,112 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.77% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,691 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "spring" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Spring | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,206 |
| Spring | Last name | 3,000 | 3,871 |
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| "Spring" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the spring". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "spring". | |||
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| Spring | Female | English | The spring |
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| Japan | Chuo Spring Co., Ltd. | USA | Sandy Spring Bancorp |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Spring, TX (CDP, FIPS 69596) |
Expressions using "spring": Air spring ♦ Altamonte Spring ♦ artesian spring ♦ atmospheric spring ♦ balance spring ♦ bearing spring ♦ bee Spring ♦ Beersheba Spring ♦ Belleville spring ♦ Belleville spring washer ♦ big Spring ♦ Boiling spring ♦ boiling Spring L ♦ boiling Spring Lakes ♦ box spring ♦ Brine spring ♦ C spring ♦ Caballine spring ♦ Cambridge Spring ♦ Carolina spring beauty ♦ castalian Spring ♦ cat Spring ♦ cave Spring ♦ China Spring ♦ clap a spring ♦ clear Spring ♦ clutch spring ♦ coil spring ♦ coiled torsion spring ♦ cold Spring ♦ cold Spring Harb ♦ cold Spring Harbor ♦ Connellys Spring ♦ crystal Spring ♦ De Funiak Spring ♦ Driving spring ♦ ebbing and flowing spring ♦ El Dorado Spring ♦ elliptic spring ♦ equinoctial spring tide ♦ Excelsior Spring ♦ Falling Spring ♦ Fort Spring ♦ Glade Spring ♦ Graduated spring ♦ Green Spring ♦ Greenwell Spring ♦ Greenwood Spring ♦ Gum Spring ♦ hand spring ♦ head spring ♦ helical spring ♦ hot spring ♦ Hot Spring County ♦ in early spring ♦ in one spring ♦ in spring ♦ in the early spring ♦ in the spring ♦ Inconel spring clip grid assembly ♦ Jagger spring ♦ Laceys Spring ♦ last spring ♦ Latter spring ♦ leaf spring ♦ Mammoth Spring ♦ Mill Spring ♦ Millboro Spring ♦ mineral spring ♦ Minnehaha Spring ♦ moved by a spring ♦ mud spring ♦ natural spring ♦ North Spring ♦ pierian spring ♦ plate spring ♦ Poland Spring ♦ pull of spring ♦ Reeds Spring ♦ release spring ♦ retracting spring ♦ retraction spring ♦ return spring ♦ Richfield Spring ♦ Ridge Spring ♦ Roaring Spring ♦ Rock Spring ♦ salt spring ♦ Sandy Spring ♦ Sanitaria Spring ♦ sear spring ♦ Shady Spring ♦ Silver Spring ♦ sing of spring ♦ Sinking Spring ♦ Slate Spring ♦ spiral spring ♦ Spout Spring ♦ spring a covey of partridges ♦ spring a leak ♦ spring a mine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spring": spring-assisted, spring-bead, spring-blade, spring-blooming, spring-board, spring-boards, spring-bok, spring-born, spring-button, spring-carriage, spring-cart, spring-clean, spring-cleaned, spring-cleaning, spring-clip, spring-controlled, spring-dash-pot, spring-driven, spring-fed, spring-flower, spring-flowering, spring-form, spring-grass, spring-green, spring-grown, spring-halt, spring-hammer, spring-hanger, spring-hares, spring-head, spring-heading, Spring-heel, spring-heeled, spring-knives, spring-leaf, spring-like, spring-line, spring-lined, spring-load, spring-loaded, spring-loading, spring-making, spring-mechanism, spring-onion, spring-rain, spring-release, Spring-rice, spring-roller, spring-scented, spring-sowing, spring-sown, spring-steel, spring-summer, spring-suspended, spring-tabs, spring-tensioned, spring-tidy-up, spring-time, spring-tined, spring-water. | |
Ending with "spring": hot-spring, Houghton-le-spring, mid-spring, off-spring, Vi-spring. | |
Containing "spring": Discovery-Spring Garden. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spring break | 10,211 | hot spring | 827 |
spring flower | 6,280 | spring break bahamas | 795 |
colorado spring colorado | 5,359 | spring lake new jersey | 707 |
palm spring california | 4,391 | ocean spring mississippi | 672 |
spring | 2,398 | steamboat spring colorado | 664 |
silver spring md | 2,263 | eureka spring arkansas | 600 |
cancun spring break | 2,193 | spring break mexico | 599 |
spring break picture | 2,016 | daytona spring break | 544 |
spring tx | 1,311 | palm spring | 534 |
college spring break | 1,246 | spring hill | 491 |
jamaica spring break | 1,203 | formal spring | 473 |
spring break trip | 1,159 | spring hill nursery | 469 |
south padre spring break | 1,146 | blue spring missouri | 458 |
spring break vacation | 1,042 | spring break 2003 | 456 |
spring break package | 992 | spring break photo | 452 |
spring break girl | 988 | hot spring spa | 377 |
spring hill suite | 940 | glenwood spring | 362 |
daytona beach spring break | 910 | <
