Clamp (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together |
Clamp (n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. |
Clamp (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. |
Clamp (n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. |
Clamp (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. |
Clamp (n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned |
Clamp (n.) A mollusk. See Clam. |
Clamp (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps |
Clamp (v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth. |
Clamp (n.) A heavy footstep |
Clamp (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily |
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 |
leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
friction detrition rubbing | effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure |
spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
leopard frog spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
bench clamp | a clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench |
box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
Clamp | a clamp in the shape of the letter C |
clamp clinch | a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together |
coil spring volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
cone clutch cone friction clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone-shaped |
friction clutch | a clutch in which one part turns the other by the friction between them |
friction tape insulating tape | a wateresistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors |
leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
match lucifer friction match | lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical, ignites with friction, he always carries matches to light his pipe, as long you've a lucifer to light your fag |
pipe vise pipe clamp | a clamp for holding pipe that is to be cut or threaded |
set gun spring gun | a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
slip clutch slip friction clutch | a friction clutch that will slip when the torque is too great |
spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed, the spring was broken |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
spring mattress | a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame |
give spring springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
green onion spring onion scallion | a young onion before the bulb has enlarged, eaten in salads |
egg roll spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
spring water | water from a spring |
spring | a point at which water issues forth |
Hot Springs National Park | a national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs, bathing is said to have therapeutic effects |
Hot Springs | a town in west central Arkansas, a health resort noted for thermal springs |
Colorado Springs | a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy |
Saratoga Springs | a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing |
Rock Springs | a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border |
hot spring thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature ofF or above |
spring fountain outflow outpouring natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
young person youth younker spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
friction rubbing | the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another |
grip traction adhesive friction | the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) |
Carolina spring beauty Claytonia caroliniana | similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers, eastern North America |
spring beauty Clatonia lanceolata | small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm |
Virginia spring beauty Claytonia virginica | small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, eastern North America |
spring cress Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
winter heath spring heath Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
spring squill Scilla verna sea onion | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
spring vetchling spring vetch Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |
spring vetch Vicia sativa | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building |
cleavers clivers goose grass catchweed spring cleavers Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |