I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cat leaps/springs
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Then the cat leapt up into the tree.
a spring tide (= a large rise and fall in the level of the sea, that happens when there is a new moon and when there is a full moon )
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It must be a spring tide.
a spring/summer etc evening
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On a summer evening, the streets are full of people.
a spring/summer/autumn/winter flower
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The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
early spring/summer etc
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These plants produce flowers from early spring to late summer.
hope springs eternal (= used to say that people will always hope for something )
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It is unlikely these diets will work, but hope springs eternal.
hot spring
spring a surprise (on sb) (= give someone a surprise )
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The chairman sprang a surprise this week by announcing his intention to quit.
spring break
spring chicken
spring fever
spring into existence (= suddenly start to exist )
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After the invasion, a French resistance movement sprang into existence.
spring onion
spring roll
spring tide
spring training
spring water (= water that comes naturally out of the ground and has not been treated with any chemicals, usually sold in bottles )
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I ordered a glass of spring water.
sprung a leak (= a hole had appeared in it )
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The boat had sprung a leak .
swing/spring/leap into action (= suddenly start doing something )
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The fire crew immediately swung into action.
the spring/summer/autumn term
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Mrs Collins will be leaving us at the end of the summer term.
the spring/summer/autumn/winter sunshine
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She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
the summer/autumn/winter/spring months
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It's very cold here during the winter months.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time.
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He hopes to unveil it by early spring .
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In these species mating occurs in early spring and rapid breeding may be an adaptation to avoid predation.
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Since early this spring , the president has aggressively dominated the political dialogue and controlled the campaign agenda.
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Feeling desperate and willing to try anything, Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring .
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I last saw them in the early spring while the snow was melting.
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If it flowers after midsummer, leave it until the autumn or very early next spring .
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We tour a lot in late winter and early spring , too, when sleet likes to put in an appearance.
following
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If layered in August, the new plant should be ready to move by late autumn or the following spring .
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The following spring the town of Niagara Falls was lit for the first time by electricity.
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Transplant unused roots to borders the following spring , as both have attractive flowers.
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A further operation began the following spring in order to find further sections of the fuselage which were still missing.
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Loose oxygenators can be removed altogether, keeping back just a few rooted cuttings for the following spring .
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The majority of these become arrested in the abomasum as EL4 and do not complete development until the following spring .
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He departed after announcing that he would return for his answer with a larger squadron the following spring .
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The round black seed germinated that autumn and the following spring the plants developed long, woody tubers.
hot
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The helium would seep up through fissures, and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs .
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Scientists hope the coming generation of Mars probes will detect former hot springs .
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Close by are the famous Dimmuborgir, Grjótagjá and Stóragjá underground hot springs .
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Hippie dips, or hot pots, are circles of rocks built around natural hot springs .
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The lake is noted for its hot springs , steam jets and geysers.
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Are they always among the first colonizers, the weeds of this hot spring ecosystem?
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Then, on the second day, we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs .
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And though the researchers had suspected all along that these hot springs existed, the real thing had far surpassed their imaginings.
late
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Cover young plants with garden fabric to protect them from late spring chills.
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Overwinter under cover and plant out in late spring .
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Fortunately, the weather remained warm, and as late spring moved into summer, there was little rain.
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The breeding season lasts from late spring until late summer, depending to some degree upon temperature.
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The first browser boxes, expected to cost about $ 300, are due in late spring .
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Sometimes listed as a deep water aquatic as it will also tolerate deep water. Late spring and early summer.
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The afternoon was overcast, gray and chilly for late spring .
■ NOUN
break
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Instead, his cheerleading coach said, he chose to spend his spring break on a cruise ship.
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For a while the conditions are so propitious that by spring break I have a rough draft of my book.
day
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The spring day was unseasonably warm, and after two hour's tuition she went into the clubhouse.
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Luciano Villoslada remembers that humid spring day that his sister Luz sealed her fate by deciding to become a revolutionary.
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But on a spring day in the late 1700s, toil was a long way from John Binks' mind.
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On a spring day in 1941, Margarett sat in the Ritz dining room.
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I met him one spring day thirty years ago in the beautiful Kentish countryside where he lived.
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The Colonel was as crisp as a spring day .
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Most of those from Liverpool who were here on that fateful spring day believe the return should have been delayed longer.
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It has been a soft, breezy surprise spring day .
flower
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Trees such as Sorbus aucuparia serve the all-seasons garden well with spring flowers , abundant autumn berries and bright foliage colours.
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An outstanding feature of many spring flowers is the range of colours that they produce.
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Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers .
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All the bridesmaids carried posies of spring flowers , and wore antique pearl and gold necklaces and bracelets.
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The mountainsides were strewn with spring flowers .
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He stared at the spring flowers , looked up at a blackbird on a branch, and came slowly indoors again.
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And don't forget Britain's commonest spring flower -- bluebells.
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The furniture was white and chrome, and even the many vases of spring flowers were white.
onion
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Melt the butter gently in it, then add the mushrooms and spring onions and cook until soft, about 3 minutes.
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It is carved into small squares and rolled up inside a thin wheat pancake with hoisin sauce and spring onions .
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Chop ¼ red pepper, 2 spring onions , 1 celery stalk, 2 cooked new potatoes, cucumber and 2 mushrooms.
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Lunch was a collation of local salami, black olives, spring onions and dark soft rye-bread.
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Stir in the parsley, then spoon into a serving dish and scatter over the remaining spring onions .
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Add the Quorn and spring onions and cook for a few minutes.
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Serve, sprinkled with spring onion greens, over rice.
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Plump red tomatoes, crisp green salads fresh with the bite of radish, spring onion and a trickle of salad dressing.
sunshine
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She was sitting downstairs, by an open window, enjoying the spring sunshine .
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We finished our coffee and watched the seagulls whirling and shrieking over the harbour in the spring sunshine .
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The new arcade looked very attractive in the spring sunshine .
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These accumulate as the snow melts under spring sunshine , and the resulting discoloration hastens the melting.
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On the day a march estimated at 100,000 people threaded through central London in spring sunshine to Grosvenor Square.
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The spring sunshine was almost warm and a soft breeze was blowing in from the sea.
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The Markt was bathed in spring sunshine , and everywhere looked so clean and pristine as befitted the fine morning.
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But already I have the impression of warm spring sunshine .
term
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In the spring term the students will be back in the School of Education.
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For the spring term , about 58 students have enrolled.
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The first materials will be published in the spring term of 2001 and will be revised and added to during the year.
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It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term .
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Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be invited to an interview during the spring term .
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This extra effort paid dividends when she won the school dancing competition at the end of the spring term in 1976.
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Each of the main pieces of work was allocated approximately one week in the spring term of 1981.
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Taught by one supervisor by regular tutorial instruction; essays and reports required during autumn and spring terms .
tide
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While the Conference met, high spring tides were oozing through the paving of the Piazza San Marco.
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Outside, the mob surged around me, retiring and returning like a spring tide .
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The highest of the spring tides might wash up all around the houseboat but it would never float again.
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A month later in the high spring tides , his body was washed up in Cadgwith Cove.
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But next day we were ready to take advantage of the high spring tide and fly.
water
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A young man can live on love and spring water , n'est-ce pas?
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Shaw took Mountain Valley spring water along whenever he traveled.
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Chlorine was first used to treat water after the Maidstone epidemic of 1897-8 when hop-pickers contaminated spring water.
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They seem more like a symbol of some unknown cause than just six ounces each of chunk white packed in spring water .
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Edwards Aerated Elderflower Spring is made from freshly-picked and cold-pressed elderflowers infused in aerated Kentish spring water .
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Below his window, the new spring water softly lapped against the rocks.
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The drink, of course, was a choice between herb tea, apple juice or straight spring water .
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Camping by a stream of pure Rocky Mountain spring water in colorful Colorado?
■ VERB
begin
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Resistance began in spring 1968 but developed only slowly.
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The two companies had begun negotiations last spring .
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The position began to improve in spring .
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March begins the big spring planting season.
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A further operation began the following spring in order to find further sections of the fuselage which were still missing.
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Deliveries are planned to begin in spring .
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Natural History Museum: $ 25 million museum expansion, due to begin in spring for completion in 2000. 12.
follow
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With legs slowly turning to jelly, I skied down hard, icy snow, followed by spring snow, then slush.
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The case likely would be heard next fall, with a Supreme Court opinion not expected before the following spring or summer.
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After the harvest he planted the beet again the following spring , hoping to obtain seed from the specimen.
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The school was apparently a failure; by the following spring Emily was set to return to Philadelphia.
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Encouraged by her new friend, Farnham resolved to stick with farming and to plant a crop again the following spring .
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Here is part of one to Augusta and Thomas, then following the spring northward into the Alps.
mind
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That written, qualifications immediately spring to mind .
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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind .
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Sheridan and Cantona are the prime examples that spring to mind .
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They are not words which spring immediately to mind when considering the honours system in general.
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Leading Leisure and Corton Beach spring to mind .
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Geographically based organisations Geographically based organisations such as retail businesses readily spring to mind .
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It will be useful for processor hungry applications - spreadsheets, graphics applications, and multitasking spring readily to mind .
open
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Voice over Service areas are being built, but this one near junction ten at Ardley won; t open until spring .
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The torpedo door opens , its closing spring operates and all the hull rivets are tight.
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The stores will be converted into Value City stores and are expected to open this spring , the company said.
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Construction is to get under way immediately, with opening envisaged by the spring of 2002.
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The new building at Hillhall Presbyterian Church is expected to be completed and officially opened in the spring of 2002.
start
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Martin Kunz assures potential visitors that small-scale exhibitions will start in the spring .
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Construction is scheduled to start in the spring with the first models set to open in the fall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come/spring to mind
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All of this comes to mind because of the movies.
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As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind .
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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind .
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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
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He waited for something to come to mind .
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Multiple calamities had come to mind .
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Three possible explanations come to mind .
sb is no spring chicken
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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spring flowers
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The hot springs in the mountain smell of sulfur.
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There's not much spring left in this mattress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A ruling is expected by spring .
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Last spring , he counted 26 of them at the mouth of the Charles River.
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Nothing except the altar built in the heart of the wood, next to the spring .
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The Board of Education was far from happy with the rules and throughout the spring and summer the dispute rumbled on.
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The company also plans a new sub-compact in the spring .
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The day the peony falls I will be sunk already in the sorrow of a lost spring .
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The majority of these become arrested in the abomasum as EL4 and do not complete development until the following spring .
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Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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The material sprang back into the uneven creases that had been shaped by Maidstone's nervous, insistent fingers.
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Push the center of the center muffin and see if it springs back .
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His thick hair, still damp and scored with comb marks, was springing back into its usual lustrous waves.
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If even one of the cited companies faltered, even though it might later spring back , it became front-page news.
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He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts.
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Every one of them sprang back , mended, into its rightful place in the line.
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Pour batter into pan and bake until cake springs back when touched lightly in center, 45 to 30 minutes.
forward
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Even before its last twitch they sprang forward , securing the room.
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Three or four pupils danced at a distance of thirty or forty yards and occasionally sprang forward to catch the ball.
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Without any warning, he sprang forward and slapped me across the cheek-once, very hard.
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As I turned, she sprang forward like a cat, leaping up to straddle my hips with her thighs.
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It had been half sitting in the corner, now it seemed to crouch, as if ready to spring forward .
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At the sight of them she sprang forward and offered to get them a cup of coffee.
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Molassi growled, sprang forward , and shoulder-butted Sendei to the ground.
immediately
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If the area is pinched the skin puckers and ripples and does not spring immediately back into place.
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As I ran my thumb over them, they immediately sprang back into place perfectly.
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Not all parishes enclosed by parliamentary act immediately sprang fully-hedged into view.
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District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue.
next
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Sow the biennial honesty-Lunaria annua-in situ to produce beautiful flowers next spring .
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You might apply a 12-24-12 fertilizer early next spring to encourage blooms.
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The every-other-week sports mag is expected on newsstands next spring .
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Next spring the whole place would turn purple; there were azaleas everywhere.
out
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Macready raised his stick, cruel mouth curving like a second scar, and a foot-long blade sprang out .
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The bright beam of a floodlight sprang out and flickered up and down the length of our vessel, examining us.
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Hooded waves sprang out at her like muggers from underwater alleyways.
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As she cried, the garden roses sprang out of the ground from beneath her tears.
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They would be able to gallop hard away from anything that might spring out at them.
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The highwayman had assumed it was a lance, but now a curved blade sprang out and glittered blue along its edges.
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He had sprung out at her from nowhere, not even giving her the time to brace herself against him.
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As they stood off guard, two young men both carrying suitcases sprang out from the passageway behind the tomb.
suddenly
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A rabbit can suddenly spring forwards, upwards and away.
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Behind his grandfather the path leading up the bank suddenly sprang alive with first the black kid and then the white.
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The parliament building suddenly springs to life.
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They have been seen to spring suddenly into existence, to change shape, merge and split.
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It was as if the dark man of her dreams had suddenly sprung to life, and was now heading to claim her.
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The boy turned and Corbett suddenly sprang back.
up
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Later, they had returned on sailboards, taking advantage of the breeze that had sprung up around lunchtime.
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And a new kind of restaurant had sprung up with expensive menus and a young, confident clientele.
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Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour.
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A breeze had sprung up , rustling the trees.
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And in other areas strong regional bodies have sprung up on their own, such as the Cape Cod Commission.
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But such conversations, unless they spring up spontaneously among friends, are usually poor and wretched things.
■ NOUN
action
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He sprang into action when wife Ann, 26, suddenly went into labour in the middle of the night.
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Bellas and her crew sprang into action .
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The brave granny sprang into action when she heard Kathleen Wallace scream.
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The six kids who have organized this trip spring into action .
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When a black freshman is threatened with racist graffiti, she is the first to spring into action .
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Faced with such an unprecedented threat, Church leaders sprang into action .
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And the cold war procedures, routines and language sprang back into action .
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You know, lulling you to sleep before springing into action .
attention
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Groups of men in bare feet and tattered clothes spring to attention as strangers approach.
defence
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Equally notable figures will spring to the defence of the secret deal, however.
existence
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A Xerox machine is capable of copying its own blueprints, but it is not capable of springing spontaneously into existence .
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It may be possible to think of a universe springing into existence out of nothing at all.
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They have been seen to spring suddenly into existence , to change shape, merge and split.
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Finally new businesses do not spring into existence simply because taxes are reduced in a given area.
foot
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He rolled, sprang on to his feet , and started to wash himself.
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He wanted to walk on his land, to feel it springing under his feet even after only three days away.
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As Liz sprang to her feet , the house seemed to darken about her.
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Suddenly, Boz sprang to his feet and strode towards the group outside the caravan, his face screwed up in fury.
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Fedorov writhed from his attacker's grip and sprang to his feet .
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Both men sprang to their feet .
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Viol sprang to his feet , politely drawing back to allow his superior to precede him.
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District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue.
leak
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Electricity shares bucked the trend and rallied, but water sprang a few leaks .
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When one of the cofferdams sprang a huge leak , it was plugged with old mattresses.
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If the cooling system sprang a leak pilots had to land and mend the pipe with chewing gum and insulation tape.
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By the time we had learned to sail, poor Elizabeth had sprung a rather serious leak .
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An old galvanised iron cistern is liable to spring a leak eventually.
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Water supplies to Bristol were threatened in 1990 when the Gloucester Sharpness canal sprang a leak and temporary pipelines had to installed.
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If it is partly submerged, it has sprung a leak and filled with water.
life
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Amy flicked switches and her enormous kitchen sprang into life .
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Suddenly new possibilities are springing to life where previously deadlock and despair held sway.
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Videos Nor is the video industry, which has sprung into life in barely a decade, necessarily a sign of semi-literacy.
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In part, this religion sprang into life again through the discoveries of archaeology.
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Buddhist pagodas have sprung back to life .
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Awakening to the softness of Bethany pressed into her caused heat to spring life into her loins.
mind
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Noble was the word which sprang to Amabel's mind .
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If the gay gene is in the mitochondria, then a conspiracy theory springs to the devious minds of Hurst and Haig.
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A flurry of harsh retorts sprang into her mind , but she bit them back.
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A swift picture of the sort of women he would have in his bed sprang unasked into her mind .
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Some fresh picture of danger had sprung into her mind .
surprise
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Calvin Smith, the world-record holder, could always spring a surprise .
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Perhaps they will spring a surprise player or two in Atlanta.
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And she can spring a surprise .
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Theo distracted him from this gloomy conclusion by springing a surprise on him.
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And even when you think you know the island intimately, it will keep on springing surprises .
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And they can spring some surprises .
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Glasser orders his events thematically, while also wanting to tell a story and to spring surprises .
tear
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A tear sprang up in his eye and meandered across his cheek.
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With that avowal, tears sprang to her eyes, leaving Farini nonplussed.
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Joy went crimson and tears sprang into her eyes.
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For a moment the boy was so intent, Lois thought tears would spring to his eyes.
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With every crack of the wood he was seeing Madra's face, and the tears springing into it.
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Panicked, angry and perilously close to tears , Isabel sprang for the door.
trap
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Arrange a net to entangle game when it springs the trap .
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At the same instant, the uniformed regulars from the North decided to spring their trap .
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It was then that he finally sprang his trap .
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He sprang traps and ambushes on the Witch King's forces.
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He curled a 20-yard chip past Walkerafter springing Tottenham's offside trap to pounce on Ebbrell's clever through-ball.
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On the one hand, Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance - perhaps only soas to spring a trap .
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Will you spring the time trap ?
word
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Noble was the word which sprang to Amabel's mind.
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At Hermes' words she sprang up joyfully, eager to go.
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But such words never spring easily to the Chancellor's lips.
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Devastating was the word that sprang to mind, so devastating that she wasn't sure she could handle a second shot!
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Impressive was the first word that sprang to mind.
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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
■ VERB
begin
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But already a change of attitude had begun , springing from Rousseau's Nouvelle Heloise, published in 1761.
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Soon patient organizations began to spring up.
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When the lights of Canewdon village began to spring up on their hill they looked like lights through frosted glass.
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Today, well-managed production-line law services have begun to spring up.
seem
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Official inertia and resistance to change have at times seemed to spring from a sense of hopelessness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wind sprang from the east, an idea of rain, sudden, pervading the air.
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And a new kind of restaurant had sprung up with expensive menus and a young, confident clientele.
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By the time we had learned to sail, poor Elizabeth had sprung a rather serious leak.
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Equally notable figures will spring to the defence of the secret deal, however.
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He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts.
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In some spots, towns of 10, 000 residents sprang up literally overnight.
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It is frighteningly easy to picture our children bald-gummed, big-headed as the babies they sprang out of.