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Springboard

noun

A flexible board for jumping upward.

A beginning from which an enterprise is launched. Synonyms: jumping-off point, point of departure. "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"

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"Springboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... with trees, while in the shallower parts a forest of green, feathery reeds bordered it, swaying and rustling all day, no matter how soft the breeze. The deeper end had been artificially hollowed out, and a bathing box had been built, with a springboard jutting out over the water. Under the raised floor of the bathing box a boat was moored. Norah pulled it out and dropped down into it, stowing her tin of worms carefully in the stern. Then she paddled slowly into the deepest part of the lagoon, ...

— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... steamboat, the Hudson River, and maybe the steam cars. For several days in advance I hunted the woods for game to stock the provision box so as to keep down the expense. I killed my first partridge and probably a wild pigeon or two and gray squirrels. Perched high on that springboard beside Father, my feet hardly touching the tops of the firkins, at the rate of about two miles an hour over rough roads in chilly November weather, I made my first considerable journey into the world. I crossed the Catskill ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... utilize the native esthetic resources of his speech. He may be thankful if the given palette of colors is rich, if the springboard is light. But he deserves no special credit for felicities that are the language's own. We must take for granted this language with all its qualities of flexibility or rigidity and see the artist's work in relation to it. A cathedral on the lowlands ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... sat in silence, while further up the beach girls were wading and swimming and splashing each other, their shouts of laughter making a merry din. Some were diving from the pier, and one stood on a high springboard. Suddenly this one flung out her arms and sprang off, her slim body seeming to float between sky and water, as she swept downward in a ...

— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston

... into a millpond from a springboard ... with all her clothes on ... we were seeing who dared "teeter" nearest the end.... I had difficulty in saving her. It was by the hair, with a chance clutch, that I ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp