(superl.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.
(superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(3) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
(4) People throughout Asia use springy bamboo poles to carry the loads of everyday life.
(5) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.
(6) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(7) I put the recorder inside and hit it: a kind of springy reverb sound.
(8) In two other versions the pins are movable by means of special springs and volumetric elastic (springy) materials which allows to ensure electrical contact with uneven body surface.
(9) the process of healing was followed by regular structure of new aorta walls together with well developed flexible and springy fibre and neglidgeble immunological reactions.
(10) Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the sponges are well risen and springy to the touch and have shrunk slightly from the sides of the tin.
(11) Present problems are related to the possible need of an implant material of a more springy character tan that of the 2353 (316L) steel implant, used at present and also to reduce the manufacturing costs.
(12) Allow the dough to prove for 1½–2 hours, until it has doubled in size and is springy to the touch.
(13) The new design is characterized by functional mechanical action and by the presence of a system of springy planes.
(14) During more pronounced exercise loading, a reversible "springiness" of the fracture results, which might stimulate callus formation and improved stability.
(15) Check him out with a springy, teddyboy quiff, causing a fracas on the dancefloor in his first film, The Wild And The Willing , from 1962, or as a smouldering gypsy in 1965's Sky West And Crooked .
Stringy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
(3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
(4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
(5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
(6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
(7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
(8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
(9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
(10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
(11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
(12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
(13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
(14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
(15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
(16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
(17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
(18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
(19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.