Metric system () See Metric, a. |
Springing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spring |
Spring (v. i.) To leap |
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring (v. i.) To fly back |
Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring (v. i.) To grow |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring (v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring (v. i.) A leap |
Spring (v. i.) A flying back |
Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring (v. i.) Any active power |
Spring (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring (v. i.) A race |
Spring (v. i.) A youth |
Spring (v. i.) A shoot |
Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring (v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring (v. i.) 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 |
Springing (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, springs. |
Springing (n.) Growth |
System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific |
System (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole |
System (n.) Regular method or order |
System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. |
System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ |
System (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |