Difference between Spring and Jump

What is the difference between Spring and Jump?

Spring as a verb is to start to exist. while Jump as a verb is to propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

Spring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To start to exist. To jump or leap. To release or set free, especially from prison.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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. Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere (or September, October and November in the southern). The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 20 in the northern hemisphere (September 22 in the southern), to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21 (December 22). 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. A place where water emerges from the ground. The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched. A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging. An erection of the penis. The source of an action

Example sentence: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Jump

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.To attack suddenly and violently.To force to jump.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: exactly; precisely

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of propelling oneself into the air.An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.A jumping move in a board game.An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.An early start or an advantage.A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

Example sentence: I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We hope you now know whether to use Spring or Jump in your sentence.

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