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Word definitions for launch in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES embark on/launch a programme (= start it ) ▪ The company has embarked on an expansion programme. introduce/launch a scheme ▪ The scheme was launched last autumn by the company’s education officer. launch a boat (= ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A launch is an open motorboat . The forward part of the launch may be covered. Prior to the era of engines on small craft, a launch was the largest boat carried on a sailing vessel, powered by sail or by oars. In competitive rowing, a launch is a motorized ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large boat carried on a warship," 1690s, from Portuguese lancha "barge, launch," apparently from Malay lancharan , from lanchar "quick, agile;" English spelling influenced by launch (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Launch \Launch\, v. i. To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; ...
Usage examples of launch.
Both were launched with great support from the advertising community and, in the case of Working Mother, the audience.
At any rate, it was believed at least in Prague and London that Hitler was about to launch aggression against Czechoslovakia.
Professor Agrest, a Russian physicist, also maintains that a strange rock platform in Lebanon, whose origin and original purpose have baffled archeologists and geologists for several years, was constructed by aliens as a launching pad.
Perhaps Professor Agrest would regard it as another launching platform for nuclear rockets.
He left the clinic long enough to launch the album with a party at his house on Chapel Street but returned to the Priory after the party.
Stanford University launched a drive to raise one billion dollars in alumnae contributions.
In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.
The amphibian shot ahead, then rose into the air like a graceful bird, circled the police launch.
Close around her on all sides, the amphibious squadron launched their wing-mounted torpedoes.
Each was authorized to use as much time each day after regular working hours as he considered necessary to conduct his training, which would not be limited to docking and undocking, anchoring and unanchoring, but would include towing and being towed, fueling and provisioning while under way, and launch and recovery.
Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.
Owner Ramsey Osborn yesterday hedged his Arc bets by selling a half-share in his four-year-old colt to arbitrageur Malcolm Pembroke, who launched into bloodstock only this week with a two million guineas yearling at the Premium Sales.
Fighters launched by Croom, the dependable protector of the Argyle treasures.
I was about to launch into one of my old-time harangues about the sheer vanity of decorative dress, when my eye rested on the moving figures in asbestos, and I stopped.
All that I can remember is, that on every ascensional motion, we were hoisted up with ever increasing velocity, as if we had been launched from a huge projectile.