What's the difference between sprung and sprunt?

Sprung


Definition:

  • () of Spring
  • (p. p.) of Spring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Spring.
  • (a.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (3) Besides, his tax cuts are already factored in with voters.” The Tories had no bounce when Cameron first sprung these tax cuts.
  • (4) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
  • (5) Several dozen former Gaddafi administration officials arrested for war crimes in recent weeks were sprung from jail during the uprising.
  • (6) Salafist communities operating outside the official mosques have sprung up in three districts, Gornja Maoča, Osve and Dubnica, and “pop-up” radical mosques, often funded from the Gulf, have appeared in Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla.
  • (7) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
  • (8) Several other senior al-Qaida figures have been killed in drone strikes in recent years, and in each case a successor has quickly sprung up.
  • (9) Four weeks later, it was found in the specimens that the growth of neurofibers sprung out from the end of the proximal stump directed towards the distal nerve stump rather than towards the tendon end or the vacant limb of the tube.
  • (10) Over the past year, vigilante groups like this have sprung up in towns and villages across Mexico , especially in the Pacific coast states of Guerrero and Michoacán.
  • (11) "The popular verdict clearly renders the bailout deal null," said the politician, whose stridently anti-austerity coalition of the radical left, known as Syriza, sprung the surprise of the weekend's poll, coming in second with 16.8% of the vote.
  • (12) A wave of fantastical new buildings followed, sci-fi-like structures that seemed to have sprung from the writing of JG Ballard.
  • (13) Business-backed medical chains have sprung up: patients can see a GP in a centre owned by Capio, be sent to a physician in the community employed by Capio, and if their medical condition is serious enough end up being treated by a consultant in a hospital bed in St Göran, run by Capio.
  • (14) In recent months many companies have sprung up offering to buy gold jewellery and other items in exchange for cash.
  • (15) Tapsell and, after some early palpitations, Fabricant, enjoyed their punishment; Prescott and Martin, sprung from the working class and feeling that they were mocked for it, vehemently did not.
  • (16) Kebab stalls that sprung up in the tiniest towns of Thuringia became regular targets for young neo-Nazis.
  • (17) Since Friday, talks between House Republican leaders and the White House have fallen apart, and talks between the party leaders in the Senate have sprung up.
  • (18) What might be even less acceptable to purists are the ballpark traditions that have sprung up around Fenway recently.
  • (19) The route from the hospital runs along the base of the Downs, where the blackthorn has already sprung in the sunshine.
  • (20) The tens of thousands of organic campaigners that have sprung up around the March movement and who participate in anti-government twitter hashtags in equal numbers are the communication infrastructure that Labor should be harnessing to a strategy to overcome the political obstacle of an LNP-aligned mass media filter.

Sprunt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
  • (n.) Anything short and stiff.
  • (n.) A leap; a spring.
  • (n.) A steep ascent in a road.
  • (a.) Active; lively; vigorous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sprunt and Evans recommended therefore the term "infectious mononucleosis" in 1920.

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