Associations to the word «Springboard»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
SPRINGBOARD, noun. A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
SPRINGBOARD, noun. (gymnastics) A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
SPRINGBOARD, noun. (figuratively) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
SPRINGBOARD, verb. (transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard.
Dictionary definition
SPRINGBOARD, noun. A flexible board for jumping upward.
SPRINGBOARD, noun. 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".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.