The word 'launchpad' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a platform for launching a project, career, or new idea. For example, "This event will be the perfect launchpad for my new business venture."
A superb screenplay, co-written by Odets, was the launchpad for Alexander Mackendrick's vividly achieved portrait of obsession and betrayal.
That those three were, like The Imitation Game, of British pedigree, further cements the festival's reputation as an especially friendly launchpad for UK film.
As brand new shows found audiences online, established web series had already proved the viability of the medium as a career launchpad: Broad City, a New York-based comedy about best friends Ilana and Abbi, was picked up by Comedy Central; Children's Hospital, a kind of nightmarish Scrubs, is now shown on Adult Swim; and Burning Love, a Ben Stiller spoof of The Bachelor, won an Emmy.
12 Years a Slave was tipped by some to premiere at this year's Cannes film festival but it's now set to now premiere in Toronto (a more reliable Oscar launchpad anyway), from where it will be rolled out to the US (on 18 October) and the UK (24 January).
Such unions are durable and provide an excellent launchpad for children, who are showered with love and stimulation and grow up to do well in school and the workplace.Among non-graduate mothers, however, 58% of first births are out of wedlock.
The hope was to re-ignite the stage's engines and then test a few of the manoeuvers that will eventually be required to fly it back to its launchpad.
It has already been experimenting with a rocket called Grasshopper, which sports odd-looking metal struts designed to allow it to land back on its launchpad after take-off, much as a child's cartoon rocket might.For the debut mission of the Falcon 9 v1.1, the firm decided to explore the idea in a full-on flight test.
But once it had cleared the launchpad, it performed perfectly.
Militant groups there have used the peninsula as a launchpad for rocket-attacks on Israel.
Now Chinese firms are selling their handsets abroad in ever-greater numbers and a battle is set to be fought that will reshape the global marketplace for handsets.China's smartphone-makers have a ready launchpad.
These mimic the feel of an iOS device without requiring a touchscreen.In a typical sequence, one might pinch four fingers together, and bring up Launchpad.
