point of departure
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- source hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own
Types & categories
- commencement hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | source |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | commencement |