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 →

2) A spring is a coil of metal that goes back to its shape after you press or pull it. tree →

3) A spring is a place where water comes up out of the ground. tree →

4) To spring is to jump quickly: «the cat sprang onto the wall». tree →

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 →
• Spring has 3 months. tree →
• A box has 12 springs. tree →
• Birds lay eggs in spring. tree →
• In spring the days get longer and warmer. tree →
• Press the spring and it bounces back. tree →
• The river starts at a spring in the hills. tree →
• The cat sprang onto the fence. tree →
• In Australia, spring starts in September. tree →
• We do our spring cleaning every year. tree →
• Spring came, and the fishing began. tree →

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.
• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
• Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.
• Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.
• The rainbow colours of hot springs in Yellowstone come from different bacteria living at different temperatures, some in water near boiling.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.