Spring vs Line - What's the difference?
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To jump or leap.
* Philips
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
To pass over by leaping.
To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
* Dryden
* Jonathan Swift
* 29 February 2012 , Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News
(slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
* Otway
To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; often with in'', ''out , etc.
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
* Dryden
To fly back.
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up'', ''forth'', or ''out .
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 27
* Rowe
* Alexander Pope
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
* Milton
(obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
* Dryden
To build (an arch).
To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
* 1850 , Samuel Prout Newcombe, Pleasant pages (page 197)
A leap; a bound; a jump.
* Dryden
(countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.
(countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Anna Lena Phillips
, title=Sneaky Silk Moths
, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See for other variations.)
(countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.
(countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
(uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
Elastic power or force.
* Dryden
(countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
(countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
(countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 9.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxvii
* Bentley
Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
* Alexander Pope
That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
# A race; lineage.
# A youth; a springald.
# A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
(obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
* Bible, 1 Sam. ix. 26
* Shakespeare
(countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.
(nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
(nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’ ); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
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*{{quote-book, year=1816, author=(w)
, title= *
*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-book, year=2009, author=Jory Sherman, title=Sidewinder
, passage=For their present position, he drew an inverted V. Then he drew a line and on either side he inscribed landmarks, ridges, passes. At the other end he drew a number of inverted Vs to represent the Arapaho village.}}
#(label) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
# A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
#(label) An edge of a graph.
#(label) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
# The equator.
#*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=(Herman Melville), title=
, chapter=54, passage=She [a ship called Town-Ho] was somewhere to the northward of the Line .}}
#(label) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
#(label) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
#(label) The goal line.
#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Clive Lindsay, work=BBC Sport
, title= A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
*{{quote-book, year=1884, author=(Mark Twain), title=(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), chapter=9
, passage=Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner.}}
*{{quote-book, year=2007, author=Robert Newcomb, title=A March Into Darkness, page=29
, passage=
*{{quote-book, year=2008, author=Joshua Plunkett, Jeanne K. Hanson, title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs, page=164
, passage=Use fabric or nursery grade webbing around stakes and trunk, loosely tying the line to the tree about 6 inches below the point where the tree bounces back in your hand when you grab the trunk.}}
#(label) A hose.
Direction, path.
:the line''' of sight; the '''line of vision
The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
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A letter, a written form of communication.
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A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
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(label) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=(John Masefield)
, title= The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
*{{quote-book, year=1674, author=(John Milton), title=
, volume=IV, passage=Eden'' stretch'd her Line / From ''Auran'' Eastward to the Royal Towrs / Of great ''Seleucia ,}}
A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
(label) A measuring line or cord.
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*:The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line ; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
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*:The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
*{{quote-book, year=1651, author=(John Cleveland), chapter=Fuscara
, title=Minor poets of the Caroline period, editor=(George Saintsbury), year_published=1921)
, passage=He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines .}}
*{{quote-book, year=1812-1818, author=(Lord Byron), title=(w, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
, passage=Though on his brow were graven lines austere.}}
*{{quote-song, year=1975, composer=(Bob Dylan), title=(Tangled Up in Blue), album=Blood on the Tracks
, passage=I muttered somethin' underneath my breath / She studied the lines on my face / I must admit I felt a little uneasy / When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe / Tangled up in blue.}}
Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
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A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
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*{{quote-book, year=1817, author=(w), title=
, passage=A band of brothers gathering round me, made, / Although unarmed, a steadfast front
(label) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery etc.
(senseid) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage .
*{{quote-book, author=(Geoffrey Chaucer), title=
, passage=Of his lineage am I, and his offspring / By very line ,}}
*{{quote-book, year=c.1604, author=(William Shakespeare), title=
, passage=They hail'd him father to a line of kings.}}
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*:Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
*{{quote-book, year=1651, author=(Thomas Hobbes), title=
, passage=[T]he rest of the history of the Old Testament derives the succession of the line' of David to the Captivity, of which ' line was to spring the restorer of the kingdom of God
A small amount of text. Specifically:
#A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
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#A verse (in poetry).
#*{{quote-book, year=1609, author=(William Shakespeare), title=
, passage=Nay if you read this line , remember not, / The hand that writ it.}}
#A sentence of dialogue, especially or the like.
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#A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
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Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
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The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
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The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
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(label) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
A measure of length:
#(label) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
#*{{quote-book, year=1906, title=Reports of military observers to the armies in Manchuria, page=261
, passage=The arm of the Russian infantry is the three-line rifle, model 1891 (caliber 0.299 inch)
#*{{quote-book, year=2013, title=The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia, page=561, ISBN=1135684464
, passage=A “line” was a unit of measurement used in tsarist Russia and equal to about a tenth of an inch. The 3-line' rifle, therefore, had a bore of three ' lines , or approximately .30 caliber.}}
#One twelfth of an inch.
#*{{quote-book, year=1883, author=Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, title=The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence
, passage=The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line' to a '''line''' and a half (a ' line is one-twelfth of an inch).}}
#One fortieth of an inch.
#*{{quote-book, year=1922, title=Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, chapter=Statement of James Turner, Representing Universal Button Fastening Co., Detriot, Mich., page=5337
, passage=In case any of the committee do not understand what is meant by a rate per line', I may say that buttons, being very small, are not measured by the foot or inch, but by the line, a line being one-fortieth of an inch. For example, that is a 27-' line button
(label) Alternative name for a maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Alfred Eugene Wiener, title=Practical calculation of dynamo-electric machines, page=47
, passage=At the same time, however, for calculation in the metric system, one metre is taken as the unit for the length of the conductor, one metre per second as the unit velocity, and one line per square centimetre as the unit of field density.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Richard Kelsey, title=Continuous current dynamos and motors and their control, page=39
, passage=The density will now be only one quarter of a line per square centimetre, and therefore a unit pole placed at a distance of 2 centimetres from a similar pole, will only be acted on with a force of one quarter of a dyne,
*{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Silvanus Phillips Thompson, title=Dynamo-electric machinery: a manual for students of electrotechniques: Volume 1, Part 1, page=74
, passage=The Paris Congress of 1900 adopted the name gauss as that of the unit of intensity of field, one gauss'' signifying one line per square centimetre. The same Congress also named one ''line'' as one ''maxwell'', but everybody still uses the term ''line .}}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Henry Metcalf Hobart, title=Electricity: a text book designed in particular for engineering, page=58
, passage=A magnetic flux is said to have a density of one line per square centimeter when it exerts on a unit north pole a force of one dyne.}}
The batter’s box.
The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
*{{quote-book, year=1861, author=George Chapman, title=Foil Practice, with a Review of the Art of Fencing, page=12
, passage=Thus, for example, in the line' of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite '''line''' (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the '''line''' of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite ' line (that of Quarte).}}
(label) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
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A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
*{{quote-book, year=1998, author=Luke Davis, title=Candy
, passage="Let's have a line'." He pulled a razor blade from his pocket and scooped out a couple of mounds. He laid out seven thick '''lines''' on a mirror. He rolled up a fifty-dollar note and snorted a ' line .}}
*{{quote-book, year=2004, author=Burl Barer, title=Broken Doll, page=64
, passage="Yes, we did. We both did a line', but maybe close to a half gram of crystal meth. I did a '''line''' and he did a way much bigger ' line ."}}
*{{quote-book, year=2007, author=D. C. Fuller, title=Meth Monster: Crankin' Thru Life a Look Into the Abyss, page=474
, passage=Snorting it was a much slower blast off and a longer less intense buzz, that was much easier to function on. A few minutes after you snort a line you can feel the niacin rush coming up your back and washing over your head,
(label) Instruction; doctrine.
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*:Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
(lb) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
A catheter introduced in a vein or peripheral artery.
(label) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
(label) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
* {{quote-book
, year=1599
, author=
, title=
, section=ii 4
, passage=Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.}}
To form a line along.
* {{quote-book
, year=1899
, author=Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
, title=We and the world: a book for boys
, page=19
, passage=
* {{quote-book
, year=1909
, title=Road Notes : Cuba
, publisher=, Second Section, General Staff
, page=359
, section=No. 16
, passage=The mountains which have lined the road on the left here cross it and the road makes a very sharp ascent, going over them.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=2009
, author=Jon Fasman
, title=The Unpossessed City
, passage=Knee-high garden lamps lined the path; Jim was careful to stay in their pools. Assuming he was being watched, the last thing he wanted to do was give them any reason to chase after him in the dark.}}
(label) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
* {{quote-book
, year=1598
, author=
, title=
, section=iii 2
, passage=All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind.}}
(label) To read or repeat line by line.
To form or enter into a line.
To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
(label) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
* {{quote-book
, year=1590
, author=
, title=, Book V, Canto VII, VI
, chapter=
, passage=And clothed all in Garments made of line .}}
(label) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
* {{quote-book
, year=1963
, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
* {{quote-book
, year=1891
, title=English mechanics and the world of science
, volume=52
, page=306
, passage=
* {{quote-book
, year=1895
, volume=VIII
, title=The British Printer
, page=94
, passage=Then again line the back, again bringing the paper a little further in than the second lining, and repeat the operation according to what you think the weight and size of the book demands in extra strength,
(label) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
* {{quote-book
, title=Carew's Survey of Cornwall
, page=34
, author=
, editor=Thomas Tonkin
, year=1602
, year_published=1811
, passage=because the charge amounteth mostly very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto
to copulate with, to impregnate.
* {{quote-book
, year=1825
, author=A Lawson
, title=The Modern Farrier
, passage=A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1855
, author=William Youatt
, title=The Dog
, passage=Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them.}}
* 1868 September, The Country Gentleman's Magazine , page 292:
As a proper noun spring
is spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.As a noun line is
line.spring
English
Verb
- The mountain stag that springs / From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
- She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
- Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched—Sabor, the huge lioness—lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground — a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
- Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
- to spring over a fence (in this sense, the verb spring must be accompanied by the preposition 'over'.)
- She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light.
- The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes
- North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
- watchful as fowlers when their game will spring
- to spring a pheasant
- to spring a mast or a yard
- to spring in a slat or a bar
- And sudden light / Sprung through the vaulted roof.
- A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
- A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
- to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth
- Do not blast my springing hopes.
- O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
- [They found] new hope to spring / Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
- What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, / At whose command we perish, and we spring ?
- They sprung an arch over the lintel.
- I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
Usage notes
* The past-tense forms sprang and sprung are both well attested historically. In modern usage, as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.Synonyms
* bound, jump, leap * (release or set free) free, let out, release, spring looseDerived terms
* hope springs eternal * outspring * overspring * respring * spring a butt * spring an arch * spring a leak * spring a rattle * spring at * springel * springer * spring for * spring forth * spring-hare * spring in * springing * spring into action * spring-jack * spring-lobster * spring loose * spring on * spring the luff * spring to life * spring to mind * spring-tree * spring up * upspringNoun
- The prisoner, with a spring , from prison broke.
- Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
- I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
- You can visit me in the spring , when the weather is bearable.
citation, passage=Last spring , the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
- This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
- the spring of a bow
- Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
- We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
- ... discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?
- All my springs are in thee.
- A secret spring of spiritual joy.
- Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move / The hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
- (Chapman)
- (Spenser)
- (Spenser)
- (Milton)
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- The spring of the day.
- O how this spring of love resembleth / The uncertain glory of an April day.
- You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
Usage notes
(season name spelling)Synonyms
* (place where water emerges from the ground): fount, source * (property of a body of springing to its original form): bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness * boner, chubby, hard-on, stiffy, woody; see also * (source of an action): impetus, impulseAntonyms
* (spring tide): neap tideDerived terms
* advance spring * after-spring * afterspring * air spring * air-spring * anti-rattle spring * (Arlington Springs Man) * (w) * artesian spring * austral spring * autumn-spring * auxiliary spring * balance spring * Barton Springs salamander * bedspring * (Beijing Spring) * Belleville spring * bending spring * (Berber Spring) * boiling spring * border spring * bow spring * box spring, box-spring * brine spring * brush spring * buckling spring * Caballine spring * Cambridge Springs defence, Cambridge Springs defense * cantilever spring * card spring * cart spring * cee spring, cee-spring, C spring, c-spring * clock spring * closed spring * coiled spring sign * coil spring * coil spring clutch * (ColdSpring) * compression spring * contact spring * (Croatian Spring) * cupped spring washer * (Damascus Spring) * damper spring * day-spring, dayspring * detent ball and spring * diaphragm spring * door hold-open spring * draw-spring, drawspring * driving spring * extension spring * extra spring * farewell-to-spring * finger spring * flat spring * float bumper spring * footsteps-of-spring * forest-spring encephalitis * garter spring * gas spring * graduated spring * haemoglobin Constant Spring, hemoglobin Constant Spring * hairspring * hand-spring, handspring * harbinger-of-spring * headspring * helical spring * helper spring * hot spring * hydrospring * Indian spring low water * innerspring * inside spring caliper * jagger spring * Jesus spring * Kesling spring * laminated spring * land-spring * laspring * latter spring * leaf spring, leaf-spring * lifespring * locating spring * loop spring * mainspring * master-spring * mean high water spring * mean low water spring * meshing spring * mid-spring * mineral spring * motor spring * natural spring * negative spring * offspring * ofspring * open spring * (Operation Spring Awakening) * (Operation Spring Cleanup) * (Operation Spring of Youth) * outside spring caliper * outspring * overload spring * paddle spring * parabolic spring * Pierian Spring * piston spring * (Prague Spring) * progressive rate spring * progressive valve spring * progressively wound valve spring * rattle spring * restoring spring * retainer spring tool * retro-spring * return spring * Russian spring-summer encephalitis * saddle-spring * salt spring * sear spring * sea-spring * seepage spring * semi-elliptic spring * separating spring * shoe return spring * single rate spring * soda spring * spiral spring * splayed spring * spreader spring * spring-action * (Spring and Autumn Period) * spring azure * spring back, spring-back * (Springbal) * spring balance * Spring Bank Holiday * spring bar * spring-based * spring baton * spring beam, spring-beam * spring beating * spring beating spoon * spring beauty, spring-beauty * spring bed * spring beetle, spring-beetle * spring-bell * spring-biased * spring binder, spring-binder * spring-binding * spring-bladed * spring bloom * spring-board, springboard * spring bolt * spring booster * spring bow * spring bows * spring box * spring brake * spring branch, spring-branch * spring break * spring cabbage * spring cankerworm * spring cap * spring-carriage * spring-cart * spring catch * spring channel binder * spring chicken * spring choke * spring clamp * spring-cleaning * spring cleavers * spring clip * spring clutch * spring collar * spring collet * spring compressor * spring conjunctivitis * spring constant * spring cress * spring crocus * spring crust * Spring Day * spring disease * spring divider * spring drive * spring dwindling * springed * spring ephemeral * spring equation * spring equinox * springet * spring eye * (Springfest) * spring festival * spring fever * spring finger * springfish * spring-flood * spring fly * spring force * springform pan * spring frog * spring-froth * springful * spring garden * spring gentian * spring ginger * spring grass, spring-grass * spring green * spring greens * spring gun, spring-gun * spring hanger * spring hare, spring-hare, springhare * spring-head, springhead * spring-headed * spring heath * spring-heeled * spring herring * spring hock * spring-hole * Spring Holiday * spring hook * spring-house, springhouse * spring in one's step * springish * spring isolator * spring juices * spring-keeper, springkeeper * spring lamb * spring lancet * spring latch * springle * springless * springlet * spring ligament * spring-like, springlike * spring line, springline * spring line settlement, springline settlement * springling * spring-loaded * spring lock, spring-lock, springlock * spring lock washer * spring-locked * spring mattress * spring melt * spring mix * (The Spring of Arda) * (The Spring Offensive) * (w) * spring of pork * spring of the leaf * spring of the year * spring onion * spring ophthalmia * spring overshoot * spring overturn * (Spring Palace) * spring pasque flower * spring peeper * spring pin * spring-pit * spring planting * spring plate * spring-pottage * spring rail * spring rate * spring-release * spring ring clasp * spring roll * spring-run fish * spring runoff * spring rye * spring sail * spring salmon * spring-salt * spring scale * spring scalecap * spring seat * spring shackle * spring sludge * spring snow * spring soup * springspotter * spring squill * spring stay * spring steel * spring suspension * spring sweep * spring tail, spring-tail, springtail * spring tapping * spring-teller * spring temper * spring thaw * spring tide * spring-tide, springtide * spring time, spring-time, springtime * spring-tooth * spring training * spring-tree * Spring Triangle * spring-type brake actuator * spring usher * spring vetch * spring vetchling * spring wagon * spring wagtail * spring washer * spring water, spring-water, springwater * spring-well * spring wheat * spring windup * spring wood, spring-wood, springwood * springy * steel spring * sulfur spring, sulphur spring * tensioning spring * tension spring * thermal spring * thermostatic spring choke * throttle return spring * torsion spring * trailing spring * truss spring steel * underspring * upholstery coil spring * uprighting spring * upspring * valve spring * valve spring cap * valve spring collar * valve spring compressor * valve spring depressor * valve spring lifter * valve spring retainer * valve spring seat * variable rate spring * variable spring * vauclusian spring * vintage spring * volute spring * V-spring * wall spring * warm spring * watch main spring steel * watch-spring * water-spring * wave spring * weeping spring * well-spring, wellspring * zero-length spring * Z springSee also
* * geyser * Hooke's law * seep * Slinky * vernal * wellReferences
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(wikipedia line)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Influenced in (etyl) by (etyl) , from Latin (m). More at (l). The oldest sense of the word is "rope, cord, thread"; from this the senses "path", "continuous mark" were derived.Noun
(en noun)The Daemon of the World, passage=The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew; / And where the burning wheels / Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak / Was traced a line of lightning.}}
Kilmarnock 1-2 St Johnstone, passage=St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.}}
The Old Front Line, passage=This description of the old front line, as it was when the Battle of the Somme began, may some day be of use.
Synonyms
* straight line * line segment * (letter) epistle, letter, note * (row of text) rowDerived terms
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(lin)Etymology 2
(etyl) . For more information, see the entry "linen".Noun
(-)Verb
(lin)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
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(terms derived from the verb "line") * line one's pocketsEtymology 3
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(lin)- Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black.