springboard
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noun
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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| —n | |
| 1. | a flexible board, usually projecting low over the water, used for diving |
| 2. | a similar board used for gaining height or momentum in gymnastics |
| 3. | (Austral), (NZ) a board inserted into the trunk of a tree at some height above the ground on which a lumberjack stands to chop down the tree |
| 4. | anything that serves as a point of departure or initiation |
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Example sentences
It became the springboard for her professional life.
It might give them a springboard to continue with better funding if they were doing other sciences as well.
Synchronized divers jumped from the three-meter springboard, undoubtedly happy to get into water warmer than the rain and the air.
Our natural concepts are as much a hindrance to thought as they are a springboard for it.
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