What's the difference between seep and spring?

Seep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Alt. of Sipe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate the presence of ANP in canine CSF and that it does not come from blood that has seeped across the blood-CSF barriers but may originate in the brain.
  • (2) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
  • (3) It has been estimated that natural oil seeps may also contribute as much as 10% of the hydrocarbons in the global marine environment.
  • (4) The unusually long period of time that the tooth survived might be attributed to a different approach to the replantation technique, such as occlusion adjustment prior to replantation, preoperative reduction of oral cavity bacteria and of the harmful aerosols commonly found in the dental operatory, placement of a noneugenol periodontal packing under the acrylic splint to prevent residual liquid monomer from seeping into the periodontal space, use of the patient's own blood and no other material to moisten the root while it was out of the socket, a short extraoral period, loose splinting, complete isolation of the operative site in the oral cavity, and completion of periodontal therapy before intentional replantation.
  • (5) For these palmiers, however, – full of chocolate and honey – I've found the rolling method is best for keeping the filling contained in the swirls of dough and stopping it from seeping across the baking tray.
  • (6) Today's news shows the poison of bad credit continues to seep through the veins of the world's financial markets.
  • (7) Over the following days, every drop of the 119,328 tonnes of crude oil borne by this 300m-long supertanker seeped into the Atlantic.
  • (8) Porous rocks under the Martian surface might hold frozen water that melts in the summer months and seeps up to the surface.
  • (9) Shorten said he hoped debate would shift from the “toxic, malignant, poison of Hansonism that seeps to surface of our politics”.
  • (10) Noble gases are one of four things the organisation looks out for in its nuclear monitoring process, because the gases can be released by either slowly seeping through rock and sediment from underground to the surface after a nuclear test or come from activity at a test site.
  • (11) Even as the radiation levels above ground stabilise, the legacy for Tomioka and Fukushima Prefecture in general will be a long one, as caesium seeps deeper into the ground on its slow journey to the groundwater.
  • (12) But the arts are of importance to all voters, and seep into areas well beyond the confines of the Department for Culture .
  • (13) By the 13th fetal day cerebrospinal fluid begins to seep into and replace it.
  • (14) Somehow the story seeped into our bones, expressed in our best-loved sitcoms – with their tales of frustrated men, from Captain Mainwaring to David Brent, made ridiculous by delusions of grandeur – and by a brand of newspaper whose unspoken daily message is that the country is going to the dogs.
  • (15) The organism was recovered from the clay layer of the soil profile as well as from water that seeps into this layer during the "wet" season.
  • (16) Oil is spreading across the creeks and mangrove forests and seeping deeper into the water table.
  • (17) If bleeding persists in spite of ligation, this does not mean that the wrong vessel has been tied off but that arterial anastomoses are allowing blood to seep from the ethmoidal to the sphenopalatine area of the nose.
  • (18) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
  • (19) Lahm was 12 years old when he joined the Bundesliga’s record title winners and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the club’s you-have-to-win-everything attitude to the game has seeped deep into Lahm’s psyche.
  • (20) Brendan didn’t obsess about telling us about opponents constantly, but through working on certain exercises the message seeped into our minds.

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.