All spring synonyms
spring
S s noun spring
- malleableness β The quality of being malleable.
- gush β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- ascent β An ascent is an upward journey, especially when you are walking or climbing.
- linchpin β a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
- impulsion β the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- embarkation β The act of embarking.
- awol β If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- hairspring β a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- greenness β the quality or state of being green.
- constraint β A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- easter β an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- initiator β SCSI initiator
- flight β an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- hangup β Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- loch β a lake.
- jet β a compact black coal, susceptible of a high polish, used for making beads, jewelry, buttons, etc.
- adolescence β Adolescence is the period of your life in which you develop from being a child into being an adult.
- elusiveness β The state of being elusive.
verb spring
- liven β to put life into; rouse; enliven; cheer (often followed by up): What can we do to liven up the party?
- flare up β to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- lollop β British Dialect. to loll; lounge.
- hoof it β the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- gear up β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- caper β Capers are the small green buds of caper plants. They are usually sold preserved in vinegar.
- gallop β to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
- welling β a hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water, petroleum, natural gas, brine, or sulfur.
- let bygones be bygones β past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
- emerge β Move out of or away from something and come into view.
- get going β an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- hold over β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- innervated β to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- guttering β a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- jig β a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- let off steam β a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
- clock in β When you clock in at work, you arrive there or put a special card into a device to show what time you arrived.
- appear β If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- dog it β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- livening β Present participle of liven.
- get the hook β a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- bailed β Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- got it β simple past tense and past participle of get it.
- blow in β to arrive or enter suddenly
- absolve β If a report or investigation absolves someone from blame or responsibility, it formally states that he or she is not guilty or is not to blame.
- forgive β to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- cuing β a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flash β a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- foot it β (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- give out β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.