The season of growth:
— The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring.
— He will hold office until the spring of next year.

synonym: springtime.

Roget 159: strength; power etc. 157; energy etc. 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.    stoutness etc. adj.; lustihood^†, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.    athletics, athleticism^†; gymnastics, feats of strength.    adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone.    athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus^†, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.    strengthening etc. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation^†.    [Science of forces] dynamics, statics.    ... show more

Roget 125: morning, morn, forenoon, a.   m., prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring^†, foreday^†, sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing^†; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.    spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.    noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.    summer, midsummer.    ... show more

Roget 633: machinery, mechanism, engineering.    instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.    gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde^†; equipment, equipmentage^†; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia etc. (belongings) 780.    mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike^†, gavelock^†, jemmy^†, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan etc. (lift) 307; wheel etc. (rotation) 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald^†, heddle^†, jenny, parbuckle^†, sprag^†, water wheel.    handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.    hammer etc. (impulse) 276; edge tool etc. (cut) 253; borer etc. 262; vice, teeth, etc. (hold) 781; nail, rope etc. (join) 45; peg etc. (hang) 214; support etc. 215; spoon etc. (vehicle) 272; arms etc. 727; oar etc. (navigation) 267; cardiograph, recapper^†, snowplow, tenpenny^†, votograph^†.    ... show more

Dutch: lente, lentetijd, voorjaar
Polish: wiosna

A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed.

Polish: sprężyna

A natural flow of ground water.

synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring.

Roget 153: cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner^†, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author etc. (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation etc. (support) 215.    spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo [Lat.], genesis; descent etc. (paternity) 166; remote cause; influence.    pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans [Lat.]; straw that breaks the camel's back.    ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause etc. (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes [Fr.]; undercurrents.    rudiment.    egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule^†, radicle, semen, sperm.    nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed.    causality, causation; origination; production etc. 161.    ... show more

Roget 636: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.    stock in trade, supply; heap etc. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche [Fr.].    crop, harvest, mow, vintage.    store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay etc. (provision) 637.    storehouse, storeroom, storecloset^†; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory^†, repertory; repertorium^†; promptuary^†, warehouse, entrepot [Fr.], magazine; buttery, larder, spence^†; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom^†; thesaurus; bank etc. (treasury) 802; armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery^†, menagerie.    reservoir, cistern, aljibar^†, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer^†.    budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer etc. (receptacle) 191.    conservation; storing etc. v.; storage.    ... show more

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt^†, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss^†; lin^†, linn^†; ghyll^†, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe^†, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout.    rain, rainfall; serein^†; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology^†, hyetography^†; predominance of Aquarius^†, reign of St.    Swithin; mizzle^†, drizzle, stillicidum^†, plash; dropping etc. v.; falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.    stream, course, flux, flow, profluence^†; effluence etc. (egress) 295; defluxion^†; flowing etc. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.    spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet^†; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike^†, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.    geyser, spout, waterspout.    body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^†, hygre^†; fresh, freshet; indraught^†, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^†, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation^†.    wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma [Gr.]; beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.    [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics^†; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology^†.    irrigation etc. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti^†, mussuk^†.    ... show more

Dutch: fontein, bron, wel

A point at which water issues forth.

The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.

synonyms: give, springiness.

Roget 325: elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy.    rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.    flexibility, Young's modulus.    ... show more

Dutch: veerkracht
Polish: sprężystość, prężność

A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.

synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation.

Roget 309: leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation^†.    ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade^†, gambado^†; capriole, demivolt^†; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade^†.    kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper^†; wallaby.    ... show more

Roget 277: recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration^†; kick, contrecoup [Fr.]; springing back etc. v.; elasticity etc. 325; reflection, reflexion [Brit.], reflex, reflux; reverberation etc. (resonance) 408; rebuff, repulse; return.    ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist^†.    elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.    ... show more

Move forward by leaps and bounds.

synonyms: bound, jump, leap.

Roget 309: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk etc. (amusement) 840; jump about etc. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.    ... show more

Roget 293: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.    leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose [Slang], vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye etc. n.; disappear etc. 449; abscond etc. (avoid) 623; entrain; inspan^†.    ... show more

Roget 274: move quickly, trip, fisk^†; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle^†; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush etc. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.    hurry etc. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.    keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip etc. 303; outmarch^†.    ... show more

Dutch: opspringen, voordringen, opschrikken, springen

Develop into a distinctive entity.

synonyms: form, take form, take shape.

Dutch: vorm krijgen

Spring back; spring away from an impact.

synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop.

Dutch: veren, zwiepen

Develop suddenly.

Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.