<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object), sprang or, often, sprung; sprung; springing.</li><li>To rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.</li><li>To be released from a constrained position, as by resilient or elastic force or from the action of a spring: A trap springs.</li><li>To issue forth suddenly, as water, blood, sparks, fire, etc. (often followed by forth, out, or up): Blood sprang from the wound.</li><li>To come into being, rise, or arise within a short time (usually followed by up): Industries sprang up in the suburbs.</li><li>To proceed or originate from a specific source or cause.</li><li>To rise or extend upward, as a spire.</li><li>To take an upward course or curve from a point of support, as an arch.</li><li>To start or rise from cover, as a pheasant, woodcock, or the like.</li><li>To explode, as a mine.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A leap, jump, or bound.</li><li>A sudden movement caused by the release of something elastic.</li><li>An elastic or bouncing quality: There is a spring in his walk.</li><li>Elasticity or resilience: This board has spring in it.</li><li>A structural defect or injury caused by a warp, crack, etc.</li><li>An issue of water from the earth, taking the form, on the surface, of a small stream or standing as a pool or small lake.</li><li>The place of such an issue: mineral springs.</li><li>A source or fountainhead of something: a spring of inspiration.</li><li>An elastic contrivance or body, as a strip or wire of steel coiled spirally, that recovers its shape after being compressed, bent, or stretched.</li><li>The season between winter and summer.</li><li>The first stage and freshest period: the spring of life.</li><li>A popular movement calling for liberal reforms and opposing authoritarian restrictions on freedom and information access.</li><li>A period of growth, recovery, or regeneration (usually used in combination): signs of an economic spring.</li><li>The point at which an arch or dome rises from its support.</li><li>The rise or the angle of the rise of an arch.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable for the season of spring: spring flowers.</li><li>Resting on or containing mechanical springs.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>