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Launched

Launch \Launch\ (l[add]nch or l[aum]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Launched (l[add]ncht or l[aum]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Launching.] [OE. launchen to throw as a lance, OF. lanchier, another form of lancier, F. lancer, fr. lance lance. See Lance.] [Written also lanch.]

  1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

  2. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. [Obs.]

    Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
    --Spenser.

  3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

    With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
    --Pope.

  4. To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

    All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England.
    --Eikon Basilike.

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vb. (en-past of: launch)

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A ship may also be launched, see Ship naming and launching

Launched is the second album from German hardcore punk band, Beatsteaks. It was released in March, 2000 on Epitaph Records and follows the band's debut release 48/49 in 1997 on XNO Records. The album contains an interesting half acoustic cover version of a song by heavy metal band, Manowar, "Kings of Metal". The band stayed with Epitaph Records for their next release, Living Targets, in 2002.

Usage examples of "launched".

Almost daily over the next seven weeks, between eight and ten bombers launched, refueled over the North Pole, and continued south across the Russian border to their assigned locations.

With only seconds to spare, the Russians might well have launched a counterattack, with devastating results.

U-2 had been launched from West Germany four years earlier, on Independence Day of 1956.

On the beach, nearly out of bullets and mortars, the brigade launched a futile counterattack against Cuban army soldiers pushing relentlessly in from the west.

But now that U-2 missions were being launched without notice, NSA had no way of knowing when a plane was over Cuba.

Two rescue missions were launched but had to turn back because of severe weather.

In June 1967, as Israel launched the Six-Day War, the Ravens were able to detect East German missile equipment being moved close to the West German border.

It had originally been built by the Japanese with the idea of establishing a northern base from which long-range bombers could be launched toward Alaska.

Twice daily, missions would be launched from either Taipei, at the north end of the island, or Tainan, at the southern end.

An over-the-pole attack launched from one of the ICBM bases close to the Barents Sea was the most likely scenario for World War III.

Simultaneously, Israeli officials put out false reports to the press saying that Egypt had launched a major attack against them and that they were defending themselves.

The NSA recorders whirred as the Egyptians launched an abortive air attack on an advancing Israeli armored brigade in the northern Sinai, only to have their planes shot out of the air by Israeli delta-wing Mirage aircraft.

June 8, three days after Israel launched the war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become nuisances.

The location of every Egyptian ship would have been a key piece of intelligence before Israel launched its war.

NSA-Navy operation, Carter knew he was going to have a great deal of explaining to do, particularly about why such a risky mission was launched in the first place.