spring|board

spring|board
spring|board «SPRIHNG BRD, -BOHRD», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a flexible board used to give added spring in diving, jumping, or vaulting. It is mounted at one or both ends.
2. Figurative. anything that serves as a way to get to something else: »

Hard work was his springboard to success. This will give us among other things entry into the British market and a springboard to the Continent (Wall Street Journal).

–v.i., v.t.
to make a great leap or departure, as if by using a springboard: »

Robert H. Goddard and other 20th-century experimenters springboarded from the heritage of the 19th-century rocket motor design (Science). Matisse springboarded his way into the mid-twentieth century already in 1899, when he painted the “Still Life with Oranges” (Sunday Times).


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