spring board

[spring-bawrd, -bohrd]

spring·board

[spring-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
1.
a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
2.
a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps.
3.
something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure: a lecture to serve as a springboard for a series of seminars.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4.
to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard.

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Spring board is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

Origin:
1865–70; spring + board
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