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springboard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun springboard has 2 senses
- springboard(n = noun.artifact) Array - a flexible board for jumping upward; Array is a kind of board
- springboard(n = noun.act) jumping-off point, point of departure - a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out" is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: diving board
CIDE DICTIONARY
springboard, n.
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
springboard, n.
1 a springy board giving impetus in leaping, diving, etc.
2 a source of impetus in any activity.
3 US & Austral. a platform inserted in the side of a tree, on which a lumberjack stands to chop at some height from the ground.
1 a springy board giving impetus in leaping, diving, etc.
2 a source of impetus in any activity.
3 US & Austral. a platform inserted in the side of a tree, on which a lumberjack stands to chop at some height from the ground.
THESAURUS
springboard
Lastex, baleen, battledore, chewing gum, elastic, elastomer, gum, gum elastic, handball, jumping jack, racket, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, spandex, spring, stretch fabric, trampoline, whalebone
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