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Origin vs Springboard - What's the difference?

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Origin is a related term of springboard.


As nouns the difference between origin and springboard

is that origin is the beginning of something while springboard is a diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.

As a verb springboard is

to launch or propel as if from a springboard.

origin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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  • (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  • (cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • (in the plural) Ancestry.

    • Synonyms

    * (source) source * (mathematics) zero vector

    Antonyms

    * (source) destination * (anatomy) insertion

    Related terms

    * orient * original * originate * originator * origination

    See also

    * provenance

    External links

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    springboard

    English

    (wikipedia springboard)

    Noun

    (en 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.
    • The opportunity served a springboard to their success.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To launch or propel as if from a springboard.
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    • , passage=Such a change could amount to a seismic shift in the nation’s electoral dynamics, potentially springboarding a Republican into the White House, and the possibility has animated hopeful Republicans and fearful Democrats. }}