Crossword clues for springboard
springboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Springboard \Spring"board`\ (-b[=o]rd`), n. An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water. 2 (context gymnastics English) A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment. 3 (context figuratively English) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something. vb. (context transitive English) To launch or propel as if from a springboard.
WordNet
n. a flexible board for jumping upward
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" [syn: jumping-off point, point of departure]
Wikipedia
SpringBoard is the standard application that manages the iOS home screen. Other tasks include starting WindowServer, launching and bootstrapping applications and setting some of the device's settings on startup.
A springboard is a platform set upon one or usually multiple springs used in artistic gymnastics to propel a gymnast who jumps upon it further than if they had otherwise jumped off a fixed platform. The springboard is a vital part of the vault event, and is commonly used in some routines of other events, such as the balance beam, or uneven bars, to start the event by springing onto the apparatus. The springboard is usually about wide and long. The number of springs in a springboard depends on the gymnast.
Category:Artistic gymnastics apparatus
A springboard is a cantilever-type board used as a diving platform. "Springboard" may also refer to:
- SpringBoard, the College Board's Pre- AP program
- Springboard (gymnastics), a platform used in gymnastics
- SpringBoard, the home screen of the iOS operating system
- Springboard, the codename for the enhanced security features included in Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Springboard, one of the professional wrestling aerial techniques
- Springboard Expansion Slot, an expansion slot devised for Handspring's range of Palm OS PDAs
- Springboard Press, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, which is a part of Hachette Book Group USA
Springboard is the name of a business incubator formed by Cambridge-based company Red Gate Software. Over the course of ten weeks, Red Gate provides startups with office space, money to live on, food and mentoring, including weekly talks from successful entrepreneurs. In return, Red Gate doesn't take equity or seats on the board but instead hope that the program will benefit the tech eco-system in Cambridge in general and help Red Gate forge useful relationships for the future.
Usage examples of "springboard".
They're using the cat and the car as a springboard to get even angrier about the list.
Once these pincers snapped shut, Kustrin would fall and the linking of the two bridgeheads would provide the Russians with a major springboard on the western bank for their drive on Berlin.
And reports from Earth, which Sax forced himself to watch for an hour a day, made it clear that some forces there were trying to keep things the way they had been before the flood, in sharp conflict with other groups trying to take advantage of the flood in the same way the Martian revolutionaries had, using it as a break point in history and a springboard to some new order, some fresh start.
And although I have been very busy, here in New Guinea, preparing the springboard for my return, the Filipinos don't know about any of this, and many of them probably think I have forgotten about them entirely.
The sudden release made him feel as if he were tumbling head over heels, as if he had been catapulted off the end of that same springboard and was falling through the air doing forward rolls.
To the very end of the springboard the emulator keeps up his courage and his desire to follow.
I patted one of the ladies affectionately on the shoulder with that easy familiarity that overcomes me when I am drunk and used her as a kind of springboard to propel myself towards the stairs, where I smiled a farewell to the room-everyone was by now watching me with interest-and descended the stairs in one fluid motion.
Instead of rushing from one problem-solving crisis to another, they’re focused on coming up with synergistic springboards to future contribution and fulfillment.
Hypotheses not taken as the springboard for real action may be false but not fatal.
With a flying kick, Logan planted one foot in his opponent's stomach, the other on his shoulder, and sprang upward, using Sabretooth as a springboard that allowed him to get up and out, to the observation area on the statue's crown.
The switch was in the right side pocket of his shorts, and his shorts, along with his other clothes and those of his companions, lay in a heap under the springboard at the edge of the pool.
Her back was now beginning to protest at the strain the hold had put her under, but she replied to this by tautening and tensing her frame so that her spine formed an arc that spread the tension throughout her body and used it as a springboard for her own move.
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.
They took the exposed maximum-classified memorandum and used it as a springboard for the wild waters of heroic speculation, knowing their issues would be grabbed by their unsceptical readership.