[spring-bawrd, -bohrd] 
| 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. |
| 4. | to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard. |
| diving board n. A flexible board from which a dive may be executed, secured at one end and projecting over water at the other. Also called springboard. |
| spring·board (sprĭng'bôrd', -bōrd') n.
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