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launch·ing pad

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area, padnoun

    a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

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  1. launching pad

    A launching pad is a platform or base designed to support the takeoff or launch of vehicles, spacecrafts, missiles, or other projectiles, often with the necessary equipment and structures for fueling, maintenance, and operation. It can also refer metaphorically to a starting position or a place that helps facilitate or propel someone or something towards a particular goal or ambition.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of launching pad in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of launching pad in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of launching pad in a Sentence

  1. De La Hoya:

    Right now, the 'next guy' is Canelo, november 21 is so important. If he wins in spectacular fashion, we have the next superstar in boxing. It’s a great launching pad.

  2. Lynne Austin:

    Just about everything I do, Hooters is always my base, my heart, any success I’ve ever had, I always brought them along with me. They were a launching pad for me. And the Hooters girl? She’s an icon. All you need to do is see those orange shorts.

  3. Zach Galifianakis:

    It’s been a real launching pad for whites, you have'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.' James Corden has' Carpool Karaoke.' What’s next in lazy car-based, non-comedy ?

  4. Omar Sharmarke:

    There is a corridor they use as a launching pad, there are efforts to close down this corridor which they have been using for the last few years.

  5. Denis Watley:

    If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.


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