| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The initial stage of a developmental process: beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, start. See START. 2. A sudden lively movement: bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See MOVE. 3. A basis for an action or a decision: cause, ground (often used in plural), motivation, motive, reason. See START. 4. The quality or state of being flexible: bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, springiness, suppleness. Obsolete : flexure. See FLEXIBLE. 5. The act of jumping: jump, leap, vault2. See MOVE, RISE. 6. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, well1. See START. 7. A light bounding movement: hop, skip. See MOVE. 8. The season of the year during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive: seedtime, springtide, springtime. See TIME. 9. The time of life between childhood and maturity: adolescence, greenness, juvenescence, juvenility, puberty, salad days, youth, youthfulness. See YOUTH. | | VERB: | 1. To move in a lively way: bounce, bound1, jump, leap. See MOVE. 2. To have hereditary derivation: derive, descend, issue. Idioms: trace one's descent. See KIN. 3. Slang. To set at liberty: discharge, emancipate, free, liberate, loose, manumit, release. Idioms: let loose. See FREE. 4. To move off the ground by a muscular effort of the legs and feet: hurdle, jump, leap, vault2. See MOVE, RISE. 5. To bound lightly: hop, skip, skitter, trip. See MOVE. 6. To have as a source: arise, come, derive, emanate, flow, issue, originate, proceed, rise, stem, upspring. See START. | | ADJECTIVE: | Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the season of spring: vernal. See TIME.
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