STEPPING STONE Synonyms

• encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• gradual improvement or growth or development

• a productive insight

• making an important discovery

• a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

• (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected

• something that causes an important event to happen

• the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape

• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend

• a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

• an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken

• a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

• stone post at side of a road to show distances

• a significant event in your life (or in a project)

• any distinct time period in a sequence of events

• (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary

• a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

• (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun)

• arrange in phases or stages

• adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition

• gradual improvement or growth or development

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• a movement forward

• develop in a positive way

• move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

• form or accumulate steadily

• a flexible board for jumping upward

• a beginning from which an enterprise is launched

• any distinct time period in a sequence of events

• a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

• a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience

• the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')

• a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns

• a section or portion of a journey or course

• any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something

• a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

• perform (a play), especially on a stage

• plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

• the act of passing from one state or place to the next

• an event that results in a transformation

• a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another

• a musical passage moving from one key to another

• a passage that connects a topic to one that follows

• cause to convert or undergo a transition

• make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)