What's the difference between chubby and spring?

Chubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He points to the whippet-like Andy Bond at Asda, the lean Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco and the "little bit chubby" Justin King at Sainsbury's as proof of his theory.
  • (2) His defence was, and remains, that negro simply means black in Spanish, and is acceptable in his culture – like calling somebody chubby or skinny.
  • (3) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
  • (4) Chubby, bright-eyed babies were passed around and distant relatives traced out how they were connected (“I think the brother of your auntie’s husband was married to my cousin’s daughter”).
  • (5) • Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator' • Crispin Hunt slams Kim Dotcom as 'chubby Che Guevara' • Beware, copyright holders: the Kim Dotcom copyright saga isn't over Megaupload may be defunct, but Dotcom has since launched a successor cloud storage service called Mega, before moving on to work on other projects including digital music service Baboom, recording and releasing his own albums, and launching a political party in New Zealand, where he is fighting extradition to the US to face the criminal charges.
  • (6) It was meant to be a quick knock-off of a novelty dance fad single, in the vein of Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time or Dee Dee Sharp's Do the Bird, and on one level, a quick knock-off was clearly what it was: Reed couldn't even be bothered to write his own riff, pinching it from the Crystals' 1963 smash Then He Kissed Me .
  • (7) Owner Steve Woodman, grandson of Chubby, took me down the river on his boat to see where they come from.
  • (8) American Bandstand provided the first national television appearances for the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chubby Checker.
  • (9) Muhammad looked at Chubby and asked, “Did you drive all the way from Philadelphia just to see me?” Chubby said yes.
  • (10) That must be horrible – but that feeling can be short-term and the pros (snuggling up to your warm, chubby baby) surely outweigh that particular con?
  • (11) Taking this to heart, we should be less blind and keep a cool head while kissing the cheeks of the chubby blue guy.” In South Korea, where a ban on Japanese popular culture has been lifted in increments since the late 1990s, disputes over territory and the legacy of the second world war show little sign of easing.
  • (12) He was a snub-nosed little creature, with clenched fists and wide eyes, a child who, a decade on, has kept his chubby-cheeked, infant looks.
  • (13) Perhaps in the early 60s, when music seemed to gush out of him in an unceasing torrent, songs so dazzling in their perfection that the Beach Boys became enshrined in the public imagination as the living embodiment of the perfect Californian youth they sang about, despite a lot of physical evidence to the contrary – the almost unnecessarily handsome Dennis Wilson was hidden behind the drums, which left audiences looking at his two chubby brothers Carl and Brian, his balding cousin Mike Love and the diminutive, jug-eared guitarist Al Jardine.
  • (14) The majority of black South African men prefer chubby women,” said the 34-year-old scientist.
  • (15) The profile patterns of the lower third face in the esthetic group become well-developed and chubby convexity which looks relatively straight.
  • (16) BACK ABOARD THE JOURNEY SOUTH AND ROY CHUBBY BROWN ALTERNATIVE ENGLAND WORLD CUP SONG BANDWAGON.
  • (17) Since his debut 45 years ago Doraemon has become one of Asia’s best-loved animated characters – but in the eyes of some Chinese media the chubby, earless cat with the gaping smile is now on a mission to corrupt the nation’s youth.
  • (18) Roy "Chubby" Brown is far filthier than Manning ever was.
  • (19) When I tour council-funded venues I am often surprised that they host people such as Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson, hosts of dubious mediums, and Jon "Gaunty" Gaunt, who no doubt offend the sensibilities of arts administrators who learned their craft at polytechnics during the PC era of the 80s and 90s.
  • (20) For instance, M&S find they do very well with fake fur, despite this not being a 'traditional' look – for next season there are fake shearlings, chubbies, sleek glossy furs, and Shrimpy-esque dip-dyes – while simultaneously doing excellent business with practical fabrics such as the Thinsulate modern thermal.

Spring


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.
  • (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
  • (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
  • (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
  • (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
  • (v. i.) To grow; to prosper.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
  • (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
  • (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
  • (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.
  • (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
  • (v. i.) Elastic power or force.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
  • (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
  • (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
  • (v. i.) A race; lineage.
  • (v. i.) A youth; a springal.
  • (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
  • (v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
  • (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
  • (v. i.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (2) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
  • (5) The anthropometric data of women in the spring and autumn group were similar.
  • (6) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (7) The phage is also thermostable in water of the hot spring from which this phage was isolated.
  • (8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
  • (9) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (10) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
  • (11) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
  • (12) The curved configuration of the cervico-thoracic vertebral column embedded in long spring-like muscles is interpreted to function as a shock absorber.
  • (13) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
  • (14) As soon as you close down one company, another one will spring up in its place," she said.
  • (15) Differences between F3 or F4 and WP were lower in autumn than in spring.
  • (16) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
  • (17) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
  • (18) The doses were calculated as average monthly doses for each of 454 municipalities during 36 consecutive months after the accident in spring 1986.
  • (19) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (20) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.