Spring vs. String — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spring and String
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Definitions
Spring
To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap
The goat sprang over the log.
String
Material made of drawn-out, twisted fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.
Spring
To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring
I let the branch spring forward. The door sprang shut.
String
A strand or cord of such material.
Spring
To start doing something suddenly
The firefighters sprang into action.
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String
A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.
Spring
To appear or come into being quickly
New businesses are springing up rapidly.
String
Strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments, especially violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
Spring
To issue or emerge suddenly
A cry sprang from her lips. A thought springs to mind.
String
Strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.
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Spring
To arise from a source; develop
Their frustration springs from a misunderstanding.
String
Something resembling a string or appearing as a long, thin line
Limp strings of hair.
Spring
(intransitive) To burst forth.
String
A plant fiber.
Spring
(of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
String
(Physics) One of the extremely minute objects that form the basis of string theory.
Spring
To gush, to flow out of the ground.
String
A set of objects threaded together or attached on a string
A string of beads.
Spring
(of light) To appear, to dawn.
String
A number of objects arranged in a line
A string of islands.
Spring
(of plants) To sprout, to grow,
String
(Computers) A set of consecutive characters.
Spring
(now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
String
A series of similar or related acts, events, or items
A string of victories.
Spring
To rise from cover.
String
A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.
Spring
(of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
String
A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management
A string of boutiques.
Spring
(figurative) to arise, to come into existence.
Hope springs eternal.
He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
String
A group of players ranked according to ability within a team
He made the second string.
Spring
To move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
He sprang to his feet.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Don't worry. She'll spring back to her cheerful old self in no time.
It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
She sprang to her husband's defense and clocked the protestor.
String
A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.
Spring
(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
He sprang from peasant stock.
String
A stringboard.
Spring
To descend or originate from.
The Stoics sprang from the Cynics.
String
A stringcourse.
Spring
(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
String
(Games) The balk line in billiards.
Spring
To become known, to spread.
String
(Informal) A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural
A gift with no strings attached.
Spring
To emit, to spread.
String
To fit or furnish with strings or a string
String a guitar.
String a tennis racket.
Spring
To grow.
String
To stretch out or extend
String a wire across a room.
Spring
(transitive) To cause to burst forth.
String
To thread on a string
String popcorn.
Spring
To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
String
To arrange in a line or series
Strung the words into a sentence.
Spring
To bring forth.
String
To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings
String a hammock between trees.
Spring
To cause to become known, to tell of.
String
To strip (vegetables) of fibers.
Spring
To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
String
To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession
"We followed the others stringing through the narrow paved paths" (Susan Richards Shreve).
Spring
To cause to rise from cover.
His dogs sprang the grouse and partridges and flushed the woodcock.
String
(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
Spring
To shift quickly from one designated position to another.
String
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
Spring
To breed with, to impregnate.
String
(countable) A thread
Spring
(of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
He sprang the trap.
String
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
Spring
To make wet, to moisten.
String
(musical instrument) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
A violinstring
A bowstring
Spring
To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
String
(sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
Spring
To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
String
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
A string of shells or beads
A string of sausages
Spring
To go off.
String
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
Spring
To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
String
(countable) A series of items or events.
A string of successes
Spring
To crack.
String
(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
Spring
To have something crack.
String
(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
Spring
To cause to crack.
String
(collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
Spring
To surprise by sudden or deft action.
String
An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
Spring
To come upon and flush out
String
A stringed instrument.
Spring
To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
String
The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
Spring
(obsolete) To begin something.
String
The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
No strings attached
Spring
(obsolete) To produce, provide, or place an item unexpectedly.
String
The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
Spring
To put bad money into circulation.
String
(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
Spring
To tell, to share.
String
(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
Spring
(of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
String
The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
Spring
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
String
The points made in a game of billiards.
Spring
To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
String
The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
Spring
To build, to form the initial curve of.
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
String
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
Spring
To extend, to curve.
The arches spring from the front posts.
String
(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
Spring
To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
String
(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
Spring
To raise a vessel's sheer.
String
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
Spring
To raise a last's toe.
String
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
The strings of beans
Spring
(transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
String
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
Spring
To raise an offered price.
String
(architecture) A stringcourse.
Spring
To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
String
A hoax; a fake story.
Spring
To equip with springs, especially to equip with a suspension.
String
Synonym of stable
Spring
To provide spring or elasticity
String
(oil drilling) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
Spring
To inspire, to motivate.
String
(transitive) To put (items) on a string.
You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
Spring
(ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
He sprang in the slat.
String
(transitive) To put strings on (something).
It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
Spring
To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
String
(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
Spring
To swell with milk or pregnancy.
String
To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
Spring
To sound, to play.
String
(birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
Spring
(intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere
String
A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
Spring
(of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.
String
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
Spring
(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
String
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
Spring
(countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
String
The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
Me softer airs befit, and softer stringsOf lute, or viol still.
Spring
(astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
String
The line or cord of a bow.
He twangs the grieving string.
Spring
(meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
The spring issue will be out next week.
String
A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
Spring
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
String
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
The string of his tongue was loosed.
Spring
A period of political liberalization and democratization
Arab Spring
String
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
Spring
Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
String
The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
Spring
(countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
String
A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
Spring
(geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
String
Same as Stringcourse.
Spring
The rising of the sea at high tide.
String
The points made in a game.
Spring
(oceanography) nodot=a, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
Neap tide
String
In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
Spring
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
String
The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; - called also string line.
Spring
(nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
String
A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
Spring
(nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
String
A sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.
Spring
(figurative) A race, a lineage.
String
A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory.
Spring
(figurative) A youth.
String
To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feetWith firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
Spring
A shoot, a young tree.
String
To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
Spring
A grove of trees; a forest.
String
To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
Spring
An erection of the penis. en
String
To make tense; to strengthen.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
Spring
A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
String
To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
Spring
(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
String
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
Spring
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
The spring of a bow
String
A lightweight cord
Spring
Elastic energy, power, or force.
String
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow;
The strings played superlatively well
Spring
(countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
String
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
Spring
(countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
String
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;
A string of islands
Train of mourners
A train of thought
Spring
A cause, a motive, etc.
String
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
Spring
(obsolete) A lively piece of music.
String
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening;
He pulled the drawstring and closed the bag
Spring
To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springsFrom height to height, and bounds along the plains.
String
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand
Spring
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden lightSprung through the vaulted roof.
String
A necklace made by a stringing objects together;
A string of beads
A strand of pearls
Spring
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
String
Thread on or as if on a string;
String pearls on a string
The child drew glass beads on a string
Thread dried cranberries
Spring
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
String
Add as if on a string;
String these ideas together
String up these songs and you'll have a musical
Spring
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
String
Move or come along
Spring
To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; - often followed by up, forth, or out.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
String
Stretch out or arrange like a string
Spring
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to springOut of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
String
String together; tie or fasten with a string;
String the package
Spring
To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,At whose command we perish, and we spring?
String
Remove the stringy parts of;
String beans
Spring
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.
String
Provide with strings;
String my guitar
Spring
To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
Spring
To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
Spring
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
Spring
To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
Spring
To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; - often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
Spring
To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
Spring
To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison.
Spring
A leap; a bound; a jump.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
Spring
A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Spring
Elastic power or force.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
Spring
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
Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
Spring
Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to moveThe hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
Spring
That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
Spring
That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
Spring
The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
Spring
The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life.
O how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day.
Spring
A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
Spring
The season of growth;
The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring
He will hold office until the spring of next year
Spring
A natural flow of ground water
Spring
A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;
The spring was broken
Spring
A light springing movement upwards or forwards
Spring
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
Spring
A point at which water issues forth
Spring
Move forward by leaps and bounds;
The horse bounded across the meadow
The child leapt across the puddle
Can you jump over the fence?
Spring
Develop into a distinctive entity;
Our plans began to take shape
Spring
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang a new haircut on his wife
Spring
Develop suddenly;
The tire sprang a leak
Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving
