Spring refers to an act of springing: a leap, a jump. It commonly describes the season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as, the time of something's growth; the early stages of some process, and 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, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly, an erection of the penis, and a crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or a plank or seam, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Spring as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly, the source from which an action or supply of something springs, something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly, to weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation, and to burst forth, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.
