🇬🇧 Spring meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A spring is a piece of metal that is curled or bent into a coil. When you push, pull, or squish a spring, it gets smaller or stretches out, but it doesn’t stay that way. As soon as you let go, it uses its stored energy to jump back to its original shape. Springs are used in many things, like pens that click, mattresses that bounce, toy cars, and doorbells, to help them move, bounce, or push things back into place.

I sat on the mattress and one lonely spring poked me like it was saying, “Get your own seat, human.”

When the teacher clicked her pen too hard, the spring flew out and retired under the bookshelf forever.

The old toy jack-in-the-box had such a rusty spring that the clown just peeked out slowly like, “I’m too tired for this.”

When I sat on Grandma’s old chair, every spring in the cushion squeaked, “Ouch!” at the same time.

Dad fixed the couch, but now one spring makes a boing sound every time someone sits on it.

A child finds a tiny brass spring in a dusty box. She presses the spring between finger and thumb; it squishes flat and snaps back, surprising her. She fits the spring into a broken toy, winds it, and the spring turns the wheel. The toy hops; the child laughs, clutching the saved spring.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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