Meaning of "sprang" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SPRANG

sprang  [spræŋ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRANG

Sprang is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sprang in English.

WHAT DOES SPRANG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sprang

Sprang is an ancient method of constructing fabric that has a natural elasticity. Its appearance is similar to netting, but unlike netting sprang is constructed entirely from warp threads. Archaeological evidence indicates that sprang predates knitting; the two needlework forms bear a visible resemblance and serve similar functions but require different production techniques. Although examples of sprang have been unearthed from as early as the bronze age, sprang was almost entirely undocumented in written records until the late nineteenth century when archaeological finds generated interest in Europe. Museum examples of sprang had been misidentified as knitting or lace until discoveries of ancient examples prompted reexamination of newer pieces. Subsequently, sprang has been identified in a variety of cultures and traditions across several continents. Its practice as a folk art waned during the twentieth century and sprang traditions have disappeared in most locales. Knitting has largely supplanted sprang.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPRANG

PRESENT

Present

I spring

you spring

he/she/it springs

we spring

you spring

they spring

Present continuous

I am springing

you are springing

he/she/it is springing

we are springing

you are springing

they are springing

Present perfect

I have sprung

you have sprung

he/she/it has sprung

we have sprung

you have sprung

they have sprung

Present perfect continuous

I have been springing

you have been springing

he/she/it has been springing

we have been springing

you have been springing

they have been springing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sprang

you sprang

he/she/it sprang

we sprang

you sprang

they sprang

Past continuous

I was springing

you were springing

he/she/it was springing

we were springing

you were springing

they were springing

Past perfect

I had sprung

you had sprung

he/she/it had sprung

we had sprung

you had sprung

they had sprung

Past perfect continuous

I had been springing

you had been springing

he/she/it had been springing

we had been springing

you had been springing

they had been springing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will spring

you will spring

he/she/it will spring

we will spring

you will spring

they will spring

Future continuous

I will be springing

you will be springing

he/she/it will be springing

we will be springing

you will be springing

they will be springing

Future perfect

I will have sprung

you will have sprung

he/she/it will have sprung

we will have sprung

you will have sprung

they will have sprung

Future perfect continuous

I will have been springing

you will have been springing

he/she/it will have been springing

we will have been springing

you will have been springing

they will have been springing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sprang

you would sprang

he/she/it would sprang

we would sprang

you would sprang

they would sprang

Conditional continuous

I would be springing

you would be springing

he/she/it would be springing

we would be springing

you would be springing

they would be springing

Conditional perfect

I would have sprang

you would have sprang

he/she/it would have sprang

we would have sprang

you would have sprang

they would have sprang

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been springing

you would have been springing

he/she/it would have been springing

we would have been springing

you would have been springing

they would have been springing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you spring
we let´s spring
you spring

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to spring

Past participle

sprung

Present Participle

springing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SPRANG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sprang» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sprang

arise · beginning · bounce · bounciness · bound · brio · buck · buoyancy · cause · come · derive · descend · elasticity · emanate · emerge · energy · flexibility · fount · fountainhead · geyser · give · grow · hop · hot spring · issue · jauntiness · jump · leap · life · liveliness · origin · originate · proceed · rebound · recoil · resilience · root · saltation · source · spirit · springiness · springlike · springtide · springtime · start · stem · thermal spring · vault · vernal · verve · vigour · vitality · vivacity · well · wellspring · welly

TRANSLATION OF SPRANG

Find out the translation of sprang to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sprang from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sprang» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 窜出
• Translator English - Spanish: sprang
• English: sprang
• Translator English - Hindi: sprang
• Translator English - Arabic: ينبع
• Translator English - Russian: Sprang
• Translator English - Portuguese: Sprang
• Translator English - Bengali: Sprang
• Translator English - French: bondit
• Translator English - Malay: Muncul
• Translator English - German: Sprang
• Translator English - Japanese: sprang
• Translator English - Korean: 생겨났다
• Translator English - Javanese: Sprang
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Sprang
• Translator English - Tamil: Sprang
• Translator English - Marathi: Sprang
• Translator English - Turkish: sprang
• Translator English - Italian: Sprang
• Translator English - Polish: Sprang
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Sprang
• Translator English - Romanian: Sprang
• Translator English - Greek: ξεφύτρωσαν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Sprang
• Translator English - Swedish: Sprang
• Translator English - Norwegian: Sprang

10 QUOTES WITH «SPRANG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sprang.

1

Regina Brett

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

2

Scott Brooks

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

3

Robert Casey

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

4

Emanuel Celler

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

5

Joshua Chamberlain

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

6

Andrew Gross

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

7

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

8

Linton Kwesi Johnson

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

9

Quincy Jones

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

10

Agnes Macphail

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRANG»

Discover the use of sprang in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sprang and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Techniques of Sprang: Plaiting on Stretched Threads

The definite work on an ancient fabric-making process A groundbreaking study first published more than twenty years ago and long unavailable, this is the definitive work on the fabric-making process known as sprang.

Peter Collingwood, 1999

Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the ...

Sprang is "plaiting with stretched threads," as van Reesema calls it (van Ree- sema 1926, 5), and is closely related to the string game known to every American child as "cat's cradle." Threads are stretched between two parallel beams, much ...

E. J. W. Barber, 1991

#810 HCA New York Comic and Comic Art

CHEJSTMAS TO ALITHE CHILDREN 1477 Dick Sprang - Original lllustration of Batman and Robin (No Publisher, 1993). The Dynamic Duo wish ait the chitdren a Merry Christmas in this wonderful full color pin-up from one of the most beloved  ...

Ivy Press, James L. Halperin (Editor), 2004

The Book of the Bee

the children of `Ôbâr 2 ,Shebâ and Havîlâ, from whom sprang the Indians, the Amorites, the Samrâyê, the Metrâyê, and all the dwellers of the south. And of Cush was born Nimrod, who was the first king after the flood. The beginning of his ...

Bishop Solomon

The Book of the Bee

whom sprang the L6daye; La'bim, from whom sprang the Lubaye; Lahbim, from whom sprang the Tebtaye ; Yaphtuhim, Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom went forth the Philistines, the Gedraye' (Gadarenes), and the people of Sodom.

Solomon (Bishop of Basra), Solomon of Akhlat, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, 2006

The history of the ancient Irish from their reception of ...

Rossa Failge, sprang the noble family of O Connor Falie; and from O Connor Falie sprang ... and O Dempsy, lords of Clanma- lier ; of the same race or line sprang O Brannain, O Riagain in Leinster, Mac Colgain, Clan Carbry, O Moalchiarain, ...

Geoffrey Keating, Dermod O'Connor, 1820

Garner's Modern American Usage

Language-Change Index sprightly misspelled ✳spritely: Stage 1 spring > sprang > sprung. So inflected. But springed is correct when the sense is “equipped with springs” <a springed mattress> <springed hinges> or “to spend the season ...

Bryan Garner, 2009

History of Ireland:

Mairghcas, K. C. ; [Brother to this Muirgheas was Diarmaid, from whom sprang MacOirechtagh, in English MacGeraghty.] son of 25. Tomaltach ; (Brother to this Tc- maltach was Diarmaid, from whom sprang MacConcannonand 0'Fallon.J son of ...

Geoffrey Keating, 1998

Practical Text Mining with Perl

For example, output 6.3 shows the first 10 matches of sprang in The Call of the Wild. This reveals several phrasal verbs: to springat,tospring for, to springto,and so forth. Now sorting the lines by the word right after the match is of interest.

Roger Bilisoly, 2011

Sprang

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sprang is an ancient method of constructing fabric that has a natural elasticity. Its appearance is similar to netting, but unlike netting sprang is constructed entirely from warp threads.

Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRANG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sprang is used in the context of the following news items.

Legendary Batman Artist Dick Sprang Would Be 100 Today

Today is the 100th birthday of legendary Batman artist Dick Sprang. Though he passed away in 2000, Sprang's influence and contributions to the Batman ... «Comicbook.com, Jul 15»

Lockheed Hands Marine Corps F-35 Training, Fleet Mgmt Systems …

The Autonomic Logistics Information System is designed to help military users operate and maintain the fighter aircraft, James Sprang, Lockheed's ALIS field ... «ExecutiveBiz, Jul 15»

Alan Van Sprang Joins 'Shadowhunters' On ABC Family

Shadowhunters has found its rogue villain. Coming off his stint as King Henry II on Reign, Alan Van Sprang has been cast as a recurring guest star in ABC ... «Deadline, May 15»

Bus rider: Teens sprang into action to help 2 girls shot at on school bus

Duval County Public Schools has confirmed that two students were shot at in a school bus near 118th Street and Blanding Boulevard. «ActionNewsJax.com, May 15»

How Kathmandu's 'kung fu nuns' sprang into action after the quake

RAMKOT, Nepal — The earthquake shook the sprawling Buddhist nunnery near this village in the western valley of Kathmandu so violently that the nuns jumped ... «Washington Post, May 15»

A Trust Fund That Sprang a Leak

The roots of today's transportation funding dilemma date to the 1990s, when the economy was roaring, deficits were shrinking and gas tax revenue was reliably ... «Roll Call, Apr 15»

Hawaii tourism sprang from downtown saloon

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It may come as new information to some that tourism got its initial funding in the 1800s from a small plot of land in a small saloon at the corner of Nuuanu ... «Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Apr 15»

'A Girl Like Her' sprang from personal experience

'A Girl Like Her' sprang from personal experience. As both a victim and a bully, Amy S. Weber says she wanted to show every perspective in the film drawn from ... «The Detroit News, Mar 15»

Former Caroline deputy sprang into action to nab YMCA murder …

In an area where it's common to see kids playing outside, Woolridge, now a former Caroline deputy, sprang into action after hearing the gunfire. CAROLINE ... «wtvr.com, Mar 15»

Gardner's leaky roofs imperil art treasures within

The Tapestry Room, one floor down, sprang several leaks that same night, museum officials said. Buckets and rubber mats were deployed on the floor in this ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»