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spring noun

  /spɹɪŋ/
  • (countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
  • (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
kevät
  • (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
lähde, kevät
  • A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
jousi, vieteri, joustin
  • (countable, nautical, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
halkeama
  • (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
lähde
  • (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
  • (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
springi
  • Elastic energy, power, or force.
voima

spring verb

  /spɹɪŋ/
  • (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
vapauttaa

springing

jousitus

springed adjective

  /spɹɪŋd/
  • (usually with preceding modifier) Having (a given type of) springs; equipped with (a given type of) springs.
-jousinen, jousitettu
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