Winter vs. Spring: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Published on January 9, 2024
Winter is the coldest season of the year with shorter days and often snow, while spring is the season following winter, characterized by rising temperatures, longer days, and blooming nature.
Key Differences
Winter is the coldest season of the year, often bringing snow, ice, and freezing temperatures in many regions. It's a time when many plants become dormant, and animals may hibernate or migrate. Spring, in contrast, marks a gradual increase in temperatures and a transition into warmer weather. It's a period of thawing, where snow and ice melt and the chill of winter fades away.
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In winter, nature is often at rest; trees lose their leaves, and the landscape can become barren in colder climates. The days are shorter, and nights are longer. As spring arrives, nature begins to awaken; flowers start blooming, trees bud and regain their leaves, and animals become more active, with many species mating and giving birth during this season.
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Winter is often associated with holidays and festivals such as Christmas and New Year, celebrated in many cultures around the world. It's a time for indoor activities, reflection, and family gatherings. Spring symbolizes rebirth and renewal, celebrated in festivals like Easter and traditional spring cleaning rituals. It's a time for starting new projects and outdoor activities.
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During winter, people often engage in activities like skiing, snowboarding, and other snow-related sports, and there's a general focus on staying warm and cozy indoors. Spring encourages outdoor activities like gardening, hiking, and enjoying the blossoming nature, as people start spending more time outdoors.
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Winter begins with the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, typically around December 21st in the Northern Hemisphere. Spring starts with the vernal equinox, around March 20th or 21st in the Northern Hemisphere, when day and night are approximately equal in length, leading to increasing daylight hours.
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Winter and Spring Definitions
Winter
The time of year characterized by short days and long nights.
The winter nights were long and cold.
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A time of growth and renewal.
Spring is a great time for starting new projects.
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Winter
A time for indoor activities and reflection.
They enjoyed cozy winter evenings by the fireplace.
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Winter
A season for snow-related sports and activities.
Winter is the best time for snowboarding.
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Spring
A resilient device used for applying force or supporting weight.
The mechanic replaced the worn springs in the car's suspension.
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Winter
In the Northern Hemisphere, usually the coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring and including the months of December, January, and February. In the Southern Hemisphere austral winter includes June, July, and August.
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Spring
To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap
The goat sprang over the log.
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Winter
The season extending from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
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Spring
To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring
I let the branch spring forward. The door sprang shut.
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Spring
To start doing something suddenly
The firefighters sprang into action.
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Winter
A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
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Spring
To appear or come into being quickly
New businesses are springing up rapidly.
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Spring
To issue or emerge suddenly
A cry sprang from her lips. A thought springs to mind.
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Spring
To arise from a source; develop
Their frustration springs from a misunderstanding.
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Spring
(of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
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Winter
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter
Wintering the sheep in the stable.
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Winter
Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
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Winter
Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
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Winter
(obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
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Winter
(intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
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Spring
(figurative) to arise, to come into existence.
Hope springs eternal.
He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
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Winter
(transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
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Spring
To move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
He sprang to his feet.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Don't worry. She'll spring back to her cheerful old self in no time.
It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
She sprang to her husband's defense and clocked the protestor.
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Winter
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
And after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
Winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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Spring
(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
He sprang from peasant stock.
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Winter
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
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Winter
To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
Because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence.
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Spring
(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
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Winter
To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
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Winter
The coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
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Winter
The coldest season of the year.
They went skiing in the mountains during winter.
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Winter
A period of inactivity or decay.
The business faced a winter of low sales.
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Spring
To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
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Spring
To cause to rise from cover.
His dogs sprang the grouse and partridges and flushed the woodcock.
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Spring
(of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
He sprang the trap.
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Spring
To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
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Spring
(of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
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Spring
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
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Spring
To build, to form the initial curve of.
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
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Spring
(ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
He sprang in the slat.
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Spring
(countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
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Spring
(astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
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Spring
(meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
The spring issue will be out next week.
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Spring
Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
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Spring
(countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
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Spring
(geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
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Spring
(oceanography) nodot=a, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
Neap tide
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Spring
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
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Spring
(nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
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Spring
(nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
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Spring
A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
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Spring
(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
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Spring
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
The spring of a bow
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Spring
(countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
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Spring
(countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
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Spring
To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springsFrom height to height, and bounds along the plains.
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Spring
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden lightSprung through the vaulted roof.
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Spring
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
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Spring
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
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Spring
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
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Spring
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.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
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Spring
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to springOut of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
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Spring
To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,At whose command we perish, and we spring?
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Spring
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.
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Spring
To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
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Spring
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
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Spring
To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
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Spring
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.
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Spring
A leap; a bound; a jump.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
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Spring
A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
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Spring
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.
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Spring
Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
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Spring
Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to moveThe hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
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Spring
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.
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Spring
The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life.
O how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day.
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Spring
A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
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Spring
The season of growth;
The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring
He will hold office until the spring of next year
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Spring
A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;
The spring was broken
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Spring
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
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Spring
Move forward by leaps and bounds;
The horse bounded across the meadow
The child leapt across the puddle
Can you jump over the fence?
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Spring
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
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Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang a new haircut on his wife
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Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving
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Spring
The season following winter, characterized by warming weather.
The garden bloomed beautifully in spring.
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Spring
The period when nature awakens from winter dormancy.
Birds returned and flowers bloomed as spring arrived.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What defines spring?
A season marked by warming temperatures and blooming nature.
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What are typical spring activities?
Gardening, outdoor sports, and enjoying nature.
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Why do some animals hibernate in winter?
To conserve energy during the coldest months when food is scarce.
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What is winter?
The coldest season of the year, often with snow and shorter days.
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Is spring the same worldwide?
No, spring months vary depending on the hemisphere.
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What's the winter solstice?
The shortest day of the year, marking the beginning of winter.
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When does winter occur?
Generally from December to February in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Does nature change in spring?
Yes, with new growth, blooming flowers, and active wildlife.
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What's the vernal equinox?
When day and night are nearly equal, marking the start of spring.
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What holidays are celebrated in winter?
Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day in many cultures.
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What flowers are associated with spring?
Tulips, daffodils, and cherry blossoms.
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Is spring a good time for planting?
Yes, it's ideal for planting many flowers, vegetables, and trees.
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Is spring cleaning a global tradition?
While not global, it's a common practice in many cultures.
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What's a spring tide?
A tide just after a new or full moon, with the greatest difference between high and low water.
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Do people travel differently in winter?
Yes, often to snowy destinations for winter sports or warmer climates to escape the cold.
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Can winter affect mood?
Yes, shorter days and less sunlight can lead to seasonal affective disorder for some.
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Are allergies common in spring?
Yes, due to increased pollen from blooming plants.
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How do people stay warm in winter?
Through heating, warm clothing, and indoor activities.
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