Spring vs. Fountain

Springverb

To jump or leap.

Springverb

To pass over by leaping.

Springverb

To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.

Springverb

(slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.

Springverb

To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules.

Springverb

To come into being, often quickly or sharply.

Springverb

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Springverb

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.

Springverb

(nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.

Springverb

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.

Springverb

To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

Springverb

To move suddenly when pressure is released.

Springverb

(intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.

Springverb

To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out.

Springverb

To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

Springverb

(obsolete) To grow; to prosper.

Springverb

To build (an arch).

Springverb

To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).

Springnoun

A leap; a bound; a jump.

Springnoun

(countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.

Springnoun

(countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern.

Springnoun

(countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See Spring (season) for other variations.)

Springnoun

(countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.

Springnoun

(countable) A place where water or oil emerges from the ground.

Springnoun

(uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.

Springnoun

Elastic power or force.

Springnoun

(countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.

Springnoun

An erection of the penis.

Springnoun

(countable) The source of an action or of a supply.

Springnoun

Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

Springnoun

That which springs, or is originated, from a source.

Springnoun

A race; lineage.

Springnoun

A youth; a springald.

Springnoun

A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

Springnoun

(obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Springnoun

The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

Springnoun

A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.

Springnoun

(nautical) 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; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Springnoun

(nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

Springverb

To leap; to bound; to jump.

Springverb

To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

Springverb

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Springverb

To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

Springverb

To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

Springverb

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.

Springverb

To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

Springverb

To grow; to thrive; to prosper.

Springverb

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.

Springverb

To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.

Springverb

To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

Springverb

To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

Springverb

To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

Springverb

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.

Springverb

To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

Springverb

To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison.

Springnoun

A leap; a bound; a jump.

Springnoun

A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.

Springnoun

Elastic power or force.

Springnoun

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.

Springnoun

Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

Springnoun

Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

Springnoun

That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

Springnoun

That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Springnoun

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.

Springnoun

The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life.

Springnoun

A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

Springnoun

the season of growth;

Springnoun

a natural flow of ground water

Springnoun

a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;

Springnoun

a light springing movement upwards or forwards

Springnoun

the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

Springnoun

a point at which water issues forth

Springverb

move forward by leaps and bounds;

Springverb

develop into a distinctive entity;

Springverb

spring back; spring away from an impact;

Springverb

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;

Springverb

develop suddenly;

Springverb

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;

Fountainnoun

(originally) A natural source of water; a spring.

Fountainnoun

An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

Fountainnoun

The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.

Fountainnoun

A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.

Fountainnoun

A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).

Fountainnoun

(heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.

Fountainnoun

(juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.

Fountainnoun

(US) A soda fountain.

Fountainverb

(intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

Fountainnoun

A spring of water issuing from the earth.

Fountainnoun

An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

Fountainnoun

A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

Fountainnoun

The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

Fountainnoun

a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises

Fountainnoun

a natural flow of ground water

Fountainnoun

an artificially produced flow of water

Fountainnoun

a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

Fountain

A fountain (from the Latin (genitive ), a source or spring) is a structure which squirts water into a basin to supply drinking water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect.