📖 S — The English dictionary · page 84

sprawl — Everyday, meaning 1: To sprawl is to sit or lie with your arms and legs spread out in a relaxed or careless way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sprawl can mean to fall so that you land spread out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A town or city that sprawls spreads out over a large area in an untidy way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sprawl (urban sprawl) is the spreading of houses, shops and roads into the countryside around a city.↗ Example: He sprawled on the sofa after football.↗ · The tackle sent her sprawling onto the grass.↗ · The city sprawls for miles.↗ · Urban sprawl is eating up farmland.↗ · The cat lay sprawled in the sun.↗ · A sprawling old house stood on the hill.↗ · Green belts stop sprawl around London.↗ · "Hallo, Woe! why are you always idly sprawling there?"↗

spray — Everyday, meaning 1: Spray is many tiny drops of liquid flying through the air, like sea spray from waves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spray is a can or bottle that pushes out a liquid in tiny drops, such as hair spray or bug spray.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To spray is to send out liquid in tiny drops, or to cover something that way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A spray of flowers is a small bunch of them.↗ Example: The waves sent salty spray over the rocks.↗ · Spray some water on the plants.↗ · Mum used bug spray before the camp.↗ · A skunk can spray a terrible smell.↗ · The firefighters sprayed water on the fire.↗ · Do not spray cleaner near your face.↗ · I put on sunscreen spray at the beach.↗ · He gave her a spray of roses.↗ · Splash! splash! the water leaped upward into spray.↗

spread — Everyday, meaning 1: To open or stretch out something.↗ e.g. "spread your arms".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put a thin layer of something over a surface.↗ e.g. "spread butter on toast".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To move into more places or reach more people.↗ e.g. "The fire spread." "↗ Germs spread."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To share out over time or space.↗ e.g. "spread the work over a week".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: As a noun, a soft food you put on bread, or a big meal.↗ Example: Spread butter on your bread.↗ · The fire spread to the trees.↗ · Cover your mouth so germs don't spread.↗ · Spread out so you have more space.↗ · The news spread quickly.↗ · The bird spread its wings.↗ · Don't spread rumours.↗ · Spread the payments over six months.↗ · The confusion spread wider and wider.↗ · And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.↗ (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917)↗ · But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917)↗ · But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.↗ (Torah EXO.1.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.↗ (Prophets 2SA.5.18, JPS 1917)↗ · For in vain the net is spread in the eyes of any bird; (Writings PRO.1.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.↗ (Prophets JDG.15.9, JPS 1917)↗

spreadeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «spreadeth» means «spreads», a form of «spread»: To open or stretch out something.↗ e.g. "spread your arms".↗ Example: As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions —↗ (Torah DEU.32.11, JPS 1917)

spreading — Everyday, meaning 1: Covering a surface with a thin layer of something soft, like spreading butter on toast.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Opening something out to its full size: spreading out a map, a bird spreading its wings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Getting bigger or reaching more places or people: a fire spreading, germs spreading, news spreading.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sharing out over time or among people: spreading the work.↗ Example: She is spreading jam on her toast.↗ · Cover your sneeze to stop germs spreading.↗ · The fire was spreading quickly through the dry grass.↗ · The eagle is spreading its huge wings.↗ · Please stop spreading rumours about Tom.↗ · We are spreading the map out on the table.↗ · The redness around the cut is spreading, so we'll see the doctor.↗ · The good news is spreading around the school.↗ · It had a tall trunk with a wide-spreading top, and was very old.↗ · Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?↗ (Writings JOB.36.29, JPS 1917)↗ · I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a leafy tree in its native soil.↗ (Writings PSA.37.35, JPS 1917)↗ · She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.↗ (Prophets EZK.26.5, JPS 1917)↗

spree — Everyday, meaning 1: A short time when you do a lot of something you enjoy, without holding back: a shopping spree, a spending spree.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wild time of fun.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (serious, news) a spree of crimes means many crimes one after another.↗ Example: Mum went on a shopping spree in the sales.↗ · He spent all his pocket money in one spree.↗ · Toad's motor-car spree ended in court.↗ · The kids had a cake-baking spree on Saturday.↗ · After the spending spree, there was no money left for the bills.↗ · The team went on a scoring spree in the second half.↗ · Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start.↗

sprig — Everyday, meaning 1: A sprig is a small twig or shoot with leaves or flowers on it.↗ Example: He was waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant.↗ · She plucked a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary.↗ · For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.↗ (Prophets ISA.18.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose tendrils might turn toward him, and the roots thereof be under him; so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.↗ (Prophets EZK.17.6, JPS 1917)↗

sprightly — Everyday, meaning 1: Sprightly means lively, quick and full of life and cheer.↗ Example: «I see that, but I'll sew this!» replied the sprightly tailor.↗

spring — Everyday, meaning 1: Spring is the season after winter and before summer, when plants start to grow.↗ Spring is a season of 3 months.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spring is a coil of metal that goes back to its shape after you press or pull it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A spring is a place where water comes up out of the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To spring is to jump quickly: «the cat sprang onto the wall».↗ Example: In spring they planted 40 trees.↗ · Spring has 3 months.↗ · A box has 12 springs.↗ · Birds lay eggs in spring.↗ · In spring the days get longer and warmer.↗ · Press the spring and it bounces back.↗ · The river starts at a spring in the hills.↗ · The cat sprang onto the fence.↗ · In Australia, spring starts in September.↗ · We do our spring cleaning every year.↗ · Spring came, and the fishing began.↗ · Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it — (Torah NUM.21.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.↗ (Torah EXO.15.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there.↗ (Torah NUM.33.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?↗ (Writings JOB.38.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Who sendest forth springs into the valleys; they run between the mountains; (Writings PSA.104.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.↗ (Writings PRO.5.16, JPS 1917)↗

springbok — Everyday, meaning 1: A springbok is a small, fast antelope (a deer-like animal) of southern Africa, brown and white, famous for jumping high into the air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Springboks are the national rugby union team of South Africa, named after the animal.↗ Example: A springbok can jump higher than a grown-up's head.↗ · Cheetahs and lions hunt springboks.↗ · Springboks live on dry grasslands in southern Africa.↗ · The Springboks beat New Zealand in the final.↗ · We saw a herd of springboks on the safari video.↗ · The springbok is South Africa's national animal.↗ · When scared, springboks leap with stiff legs; this is called pronking.↗

springtail — Everyday, meaning 1: A tiny, wingless, six-legged animal that lives in soil and leaf litter and jumps by flicking a spring-like tail under its body.↗ Example: We found springtails in the leaf litter under the hedge.↗ · A springtail jumps by flicking its tail.↗ · Springtails help break down dead leaves.↗ · You need a magnifying glass to see a springtail.↗ · Thousands of springtails can live in one square metre of soil.↗ · Springtails are not insects, though they look like them.↗

springtime — Everyday, meaning 1: The season of spring, between winter and summer, when plants start to grow, flowers bloom and many baby animals are born.↗ Example: In springtime the lambs play in the fields.↗ · Mole felt the springtime calling him out of his hole.↗ · Daffodils bloom in springtime.↗ · Birds build their nests in springtime.↗ · In Australia springtime starts in September.↗ · We planted beans in the springtime.↗ · Springtime is when frogs lay frogspawn in ponds.↗ · By thus appearing before the springtime you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my destruction also.”↗

springy — Everyday, meaning 1: Springy means bouncy: it goes back to its shape after you press, squash or stretch it, like a spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A springy walk or step is light, quick and full of energy.↗ Example: The grass felt soft and springy under our feet.↗ · A trampoline is very springy.↗ · The sponge is springy: squeeze it and it pops back.↗ · Press the cake; if it is springy, it is ready.↗ · She walked with a springy step on her birthday.↗ · My curly hair is springy.↗ · Moss on the hill was thick and springy.↗ · A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play.↗

sprinkle — Everyday, meaning 1: To sprinkle is to scatter small drops or bits over something, like salt, sugar, water or seeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sprinkle is a small amount scattered.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sprinkles are tiny coloured sugar pieces for decorating cakes and ice cream.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «It's sprinkling» means it is raining lightly.↗ Example: Sprinkle some cheese on top of the pasta.↗ · She sprinkled seeds on the soil.↗ · Can I have sprinkles on my ice cream?↗ · It's only sprinkling, so we don't need umbrellas.↗ · Sprinkle a little water on the plants.↗ · We sprinkled glitter on our cards.↗ · Then she sprinkles her lover's corpse with the water, and he revives.↗ · And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.↗ (Torah LEV.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.14.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.↗ (Torah LEV.8.11, JPS 1917)↗ · In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling.↗ (Prophets ZEC.13.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.↗ (Prophets EZK.36.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Throw her down.'↗ So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and she was trodden under foot.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.33, JPS 1917)↗

sprinkler — Everyday, meaning 1: A device that sprays water over grass or plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A device on a ceiling that sprays water automatically when there is a fire.↗ Example: We ran through the sprinkler on a hot day.↗ · The sprinkler watered the lawn.↗ · The fire sprinklers turned on when there was smoke.↗ · Don't hang anything on the sprinkler on the ceiling.↗ · The sprinkler sprays water in a circle 6 m wide.↗ · Water bans meant no sprinklers.↗

sprint — Everyday, meaning 1: To sprint is to run as fast as you can for a short distance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sprint is a short, very fast race, like the 100 metres.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sprint can also be a short burst of hard work done quickly.↗ Example: She sprinted to catch the bus.↗ · The 100-metre sprint is the shortest race on sports day.↗ · He won the sprint by a metre.↗ · We sprinted across the field when the bell rang.↗ · You can't sprint for a whole marathon.↗ · The cheetah can sprint faster than any other land animal.↗ · Her sprint time was 15 seconds.↗

sprinter — Everyday, meaning 1: A sprinter is a runner who races over short distances very fast.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any animal or person who can run very fast for a short time can be called a sprinter.↗ Example: The sprinter crossed the line first.↗ · Sprinters crouch in the starting blocks.↗ · Our class's best sprinter runs the last part of the relay.↗ · A cheetah is a great sprinter but tires quickly.↗ · The sprinters waited for the starting gun.↗ · She wants to be an Olympic sprinter.↗ · The sprinter's time was 12.5 seconds.↗

sprit — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A sprit is a thin, stiff stalk of rush or reed, used to tie things, such as halters for cattle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sailing) A sprit is a pole that slants across a sail.↗ Example: The goodman was plaiting sprit-binnings for the cows.↗ · Binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes.↗