Search Result for "point of departure":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched;
- Example: "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"
- Example: "my point of departure was San Francisco"
[syn: jumping-off place, point of departure]

2. 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):

point of departure
    n 1: a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched;
         "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I
         decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure
         was San Francisco" [syn: jumping-off place, point of
         departure]
    2: 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]