Spring

Spring

Spring may refer to:
* Spring (season), a season of the year
* Spring (device), a mechanical part
* Spring (hydrosphere), a natural source of water

Art

* "Spring" (painting), an oil by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
* "Spring", a painting by Christopher Williams

Business

* Spring!, a brand of bottled water
* Spring Airlines, a Chinese airline
* Spring (store), a Canada-based shoe retailer

Fiction

* Spring, a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland

Film and television

* "The Spring", a 1989 film about the Fountain of Youth
* "Spring" ("Pee-wee's Playhouse"), an episode of "Pee-wee's Playhouse"
* "Spring" (television soap), a Flemish-Belgian television series

Mathematics and computing

* Spring (mathematics), in geometry, a surface of revolution in the shape of a helix with thickness
* Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
* Spring Framework, "Spring" for short, an open source application framework for the Java platform
* Spring project, an open-source RTS engine inspired by "Total Annihilation"

Music

Works

* "Spring" (concerto), "La primavera", from Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"
* "Spring" (symphony), Symphony No. 1 by Robert Schumann
* "Spring" (sonata), Violin Sonata No. 5 by Beethoven
* "In Spring", a symphony by John Knowles Paine
* "Spring" (Rammstein song)

Albums

* "Spring" (Cyann & Ben album)
* "Spring" (Finn Coren album)
** "", a follow-up album
* "Spring" (Jon Foreman EP)
* "Spring" (Clay Hart album), an album by Clay Hart
* "Spring", an EP by Subtle

Performers

* Spring (band), an English band, or the band's only album
* Spring (American band), a 1970s pop music duo, known outside the U.S. as American Spring
* Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock 2004
* Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuki Yoshita, Ayaka Itō

People

* Springa, born David Spring, American writer and singer
* Cecil Spring-Rice, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States 1912 to 1918
* Dick Spring, Irish businessman and politician
* Howard Spring, Welsh author
* Jack Spring, American baseball pitcher
* Sherwood C. Spring, United States Army officer and astronaut

Places

* Springs, New York, a part of East Hampton, New York, US
* Springs, Pennsylvania, US
* Spring, Texas, US
* Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
* Şpring, a commune in Alba County, Romania

Other uses

* Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
* SPRING Singapore, a governmental department of Singapore

pringtime

* "Springtime" (1920 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy
* "Springtime" (2004 film), a South Korean film

ee also

* (for articles related to the season)
*
* Sprung (disambiguation)


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  • Spring — Spring, n. [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See {Spring}, v. i.] 1. A leap; a bound; a jump. [1913 Webster] The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Spring — (spr[i^]ng), v. t. 1. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant. [1913 Webster] 2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Spring — steht für: einen Bestandteil zahlreicher Ortsnamen in englischsprachigen Ländern, siehe Springfield (Ortsname), Spring Valley, Spring Hill oder Blue Spring eine Festmacherleine und die Springflut in der Seemannssprache Spring (Engine), ein Open… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • spring — [spriŋ] vi. sprang or sprung, sprung, springing [ME springen < OE springan, akin to Du & Ger springen < IE * sprenĝh , to move quickly (< base * sper , to jerk) > Sans spṛhayati, (he) strives for] 1. to move suddenly and rapidly;… …   English World dictionary

  • Șpring — Gespreng Spring Hilfe zu Wappen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • SPRING — directs here, for other uses of the word, see Spring SPRING is GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment …   Wikipedia

  • Spring — (spr[i^]ng), v. i. [imp. {Sprang} (spr[a^]ng) or {Sprung} (spr[u^]ng); p. p. {Sprung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Springing}.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. spe rchesqai to hasten.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Spring — puede referirse a: Abreviatura científica del botánico Antoine Frédéric Spring 1814 1872. Spring Framework, un framework para desarrollo de aplicaciones Java. Spring, una banda británica de rock progresivo de los años 1970. Spring, único álbum de …   Wikipedia Español

  • şpring — ŞPRING, şpringuri, s.n. (mar.) Parâmă folosită pentru a ancora o navă (1). – var. (după alte surse) spring. – Din engl. spring. Trimis de cata, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  şpring s. n., pl. şprínguri Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa …   Dicționar Român

  • spring — ► VERB (past sprang or chiefly N. Amer. sprung; past part. sprung) 1) move suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards. 2) move suddenly by or as if by the action of a spring. 3) operate by or as if means of a spring mechanism: spring a trap. 4) (sp …   English terms dictionary

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