Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flexible board mounted on a fulcrum with one end secured, used by gymnasts to gain momentum, as in vaulting.
- noun Something that helps to launch a career or activity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An elastic board used in vaulting, etc.
- noun In lumbering, a short, board, shod atone end with an iron calk, which is inserted in a notch cut in a tree, on which the faller stands while felling the tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
diving board consisting of aflexible ,springy ,cantilevered platform , used for diving into water. - noun gymnastics A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or
vault onto other equipment. - noun figuratively Anything that gives a person or thing
energy orimpulse , or that serves tolaunch orbegin something. - verb transitive To launch or propel as if from a springboard.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
- noun a flexible board for jumping upward
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now that is what I call the springboard situation.
Mystery Man on Film 2008
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They are what I call springboard situations, where suspense starts practically in the first reel.
Mystery Man on Film 2008
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The Times suggests that Palin is following in Obama's footsteps, whose book "The Audacity of Hope" is what they called his springboard to the presidency.
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Abby Johnston is not really sure when the last time a U.S. woman won an Olympic medal in springboard diving.
London calling: U.S. female divers on springboard to success in 2012 2010
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U.S. women won five bronze medals in springboard (two individual and three in synchronized — all by different teams) in the recent three-event FINA World Series, which had Olympic and world champions in the field.
London calling: U.S. female divers on springboard to success in 2012 2010
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The point guard from Harvard, a college better known as a springboard to the U.S. presidency than the NBA, went undrafted and was cut by Golden State and Houston before finding a place at the end of the Knicks bench in December.
Jeremy Lin does it again with last second victory over Toronto Raptors 2012
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This essay endeavors to show that the politics of community-based legal action is a remedy too often out of the reach of liberal lawyers, even when their springboard is the work of John Hart Ely in Gideon v.
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Now with this particular one, we have a little module that's put in here because the visor has something called springboard, where you can put different modules in to make it do all kinds of thing.
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