Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

14579827-n 'a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made';

汉语	立足点 , 踏脚尖的地方
英语	toehold

Definitions

英语: a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made
― American diplomacy provided a toehold on which to proceed toward peace talks; his father gave him a toehold in the oil business
日语: 将来的に成長するかもしれない、比較的わずかな場所
― アメリカの外交は和平会談に向かって続く足掛かりを提供した; 彼の父親は石油産業における足掛かりを彼に与えた

Relations

Hypernym:	status
Semantic Field:	state_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.002; Future: 0.983)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.12)