<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A flexible board projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring</li><li>A flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps</li><li>Something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To impel or launch on or as if on a springboard</li></ul>