The difference between Grass and Springtime
When used as nouns, grass means any plant of the family poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain, whereas springtime means the season of spring, between winter and summer.
Grass is also verb with the meaning: to lay out on the grass.
check bellow for the other definitions of Grass and Springtime
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Grass as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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Grass as a noun (countable):
Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable):
A lawn.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Marijuana.
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Grass as a noun (countable, Britain, slang):
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, physics):
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
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Grass as a noun:
The season of fresh grass; spring.
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Grass as a noun (obsolete, figurative):
That which is transitory.
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Grass as a noun (countable, folk etymology):
Asparagus.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
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Grass as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, slang):
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To cover with grass or with turf.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Examples:
"to grass a fish"
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Springtime as a noun:
The season of spring, between winter and summer.