The phrase "depressed spring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to mechanics, physics, or metaphorically to describe a state of low energy or mood.
Example: "The engineer noted that the depressed spring was causing the mechanism to malfunction."
Alternatives: "compressed spring" or "stressed spring".
Regulators also initially took a dim view on earnings, basing their projections on depressed 2008 year results.
Don't expect much bucking in the near future, though: Bentley expects sales for at least the first half of '09 to remain at their depressed 2008 levels.
I was so depressed yesterday – for the show, for Jules and for the producers themselves, because they are not horrible people.
The novel was the first in a series that he continued with Texasville (1987), Duane's Depressed (1999), When the Light Goes (2007), and Rhino Ranch (2009).
For the first time since the depressed 1930s, the Baby Bells have begun to lose home-phone lines to competition from wireless, long-distance and cable companies.
Photograph: POOL/REUTERS Updated at 9.04pm GMT 8.21pm GMT Michael McFaul, who was Washington's envoy to Moscow until last month, has given his grim assessment of the Ukraine crisis on his Facebook page: I am very depressed today.
Obviously I am just a few credits short of that misanthropy certificate and my elective good humour bypass is, in these dank, depressed winter months, when the air smells only of stale farts and desperation, just a few days away.
"Liam" follows the travails of a working-class Catholic family in the depressed 1930's; Mr. Frears was born far from the River Mersey, in Leicester, to an upper-middle-class Jewish family.
Georg Milbradt, the prime minister of Saxony, said that Bavaria was able to reverse an exodus of people during the depressed 1950's by turning Munich into a center for the automotive and computer industries.
Supermarket group Tesco slipped 20.2p to 323p as it revealed signs of a slowdown in its Asian businesses, while other retailers slipped back in anticipation of a depressed Christmas.
The S.& P. 500 companies showed a collective earnings gain of 14.9 percent for 2009, and analysts polled by S.& P. expect growth of 69.6 percent for the first quarter, compared with the deeply depressed first quarter of 2009.
