The difference between Free and Spring

Free as an adjective (social):

Unconstrained. Not imprisoned or enslaved. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust Generous; liberal. Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent. Without obligations. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc. With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

Free as an adjective (by extension, chiefly, advertising slang):

Obtainable without any payment. complimentary

Free as an adjective (abstract):

Unconstrained. Unconstrained by relators. Unconstrained by quantifiers. Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.

Free as an adjective (physical):

Unconstrained. Unobstructed, without blockages. Unattached or uncombined. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. Not attached; loose.

Free as an adjective:

Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

Free as an adjective (dated):

Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

Free as an adjective (dated):

Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.

Free as an adjective (UK, legal, obsolete):

Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

Free as an adjective (legal):

Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.

Free as an adverb:

Without needing to pay.

Free as an adverb (obsolete):

Freely; willingly.

Free as a verb (transitive):

To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.

Free as a noun (Australian rules football, Gaelic football):

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Free as a noun:

free transfer

Free as a noun (hurling):

The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

Spring as a verb:

To jump or leap.

Spring as a verb:

To pass over by leaping.

Spring as a verb:

To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.

Spring as a verb (slang):

To release or set free, especially from prison.

Spring as a verb (Australia, slang):

To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules.

Spring as a verb:

To come into being, often quickly or sharply.

Spring as a verb:

To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Spring as a verb:

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.

Spring as a verb (nautical):

To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.

Spring as a verb:

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.

Spring as a verb:

To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

Spring as a verb:

To move suddenly when pressure is released.

Spring as a verb (intransitive):

To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.

Spring as a verb:

To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out.

Spring as a verb:

To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

Spring as a verb (obsolete):

To grow; to prosper.

Spring as a verb (architecture, masonry, transitive):

To build (an arch).

Spring as a verb (transitive, archaic):

To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).

Spring as a noun:

A leap; a bound; a jump.

Spring as a noun (countable):

Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.

Spring as a noun (countable):

Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern.

Spring as a noun (countable):

The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See for other variations.)

Spring as a noun (countable):

Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.

Spring as a noun (countable):

A place where water or oil emerges from the ground.

Spring as a noun (uncountable):

The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.

Spring as a noun:

Elastic power or force.

Spring as a noun (countable):

A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.

Spring as a noun (countable, slang):

An erection of the penis.

Spring as a noun (countable):

The source of an action or of a supply.

Spring as a noun:

Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

Spring as a noun:

That which springs, or is originated, from a source. A race; lineage. A youth; a springald. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

Spring as a noun (obsolete):

That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Spring as a noun:

The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

Spring as a noun (countable, nautical):

A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.

Spring as a noun (nautical):

A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Spring as a noun (nautical):

A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.