Search Result for "jumping-off_point":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a beginning from which an enterprise is launched;
- Example: "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"
- Example: "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"
- Example: "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
[syn: springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jumping-off point
    n 1: 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: springboard, jumping-off point, point of
         departure]