springboard
IPA: sprˈɪŋbɔrd
noun
- A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
- (gymnastics) A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
- (figuratively) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
verb
- (transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
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Examples of "springboard" in Sentences
- Now that is what I call the springboard situation.
- He won the gold medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
- The song helped the album springboard the band's success.
- He won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
- In 1948 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
- At the 1948 Summer Olympics, he was 26th in the 3 metre springboard.
- It has a kind of springboard and symbolizes the freedom of the mountains.
- In 1924, she won the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard competition.
- Bornett reached the final in the springboard event, finishing sixth overall.
- They stood on springboards and carried double bladed axes and crosscut saws.
- At the 2006 National Championships, he won the silver medal on the springboard.
- They are what I call springboard situations, where suspense starts practically in the first reel.
- Abby Johnston is not really sure when the last time a U.S. woman won an Olympic medal in springboard diving.
- Abby Johnston is not really sure when the last time a U.S. woman won an Olympic medal in springboard diving. olympics | Comment | Recommend
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.