Definitions of launch [ɔntʃ, lɑntʃ]

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Definition of 'launch'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) launch
to set (a boat or ship) in the water.

2.  launch
to float (a newly constructed boat or ship) usu. by allowing it to slide down an incline into the water.

3.  launch
to send forth, catapult, or release:
to launch a spacecraft.

4.  launch
to start (a person) on a course, career, etc.

5.  launch
to set going; initiate.

6.  launch
to throw; hurl.

7. (v.i.) launch
to burst out or plunge boldly or directly into action, speech, etc.

8.  launch
to start out or forth; push out or put forth.

9. (n.) launch
the act of launching.

10. (n.) launch
a heavy open or half-decked boat propelled by oars or by an engine.

11.  launch
a large utility boat carried by a warship.

Etymology: (1690–1700; < Sp, Pg lancha, earlier Pg lanchara)

Definition of 'launch'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) launch
a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

2. (verb) launching, launch
the act of propelling with force

3. (verb) establish, set up, found, launch
set up or found
"She set up a literacy program"

4. (verb) launch
propel with force
"launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"

5. (verb) launch
launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage
"launch a ship"

6. (verb) plunge, launch
begin with vigor
"He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

7. (verb) launch, set in motion
get going; give impetus to
"launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"

8. (verb) launch
smoothen the surface of
"launch plaster"

Definition of 'launch'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) launch
to start an activity involving many people
Organizers are launching the festival next month.; to launch an attack

2.  launch
to begin to sell or make available for use
He launched his new book/website/blog.; companies launching new products

3.  launch
to send a weapon or spacecraft up or toward a target
to launch a missile/rocket

4.  launch
to send a new boat into the water
when the first cruise ship was launched

Definition of 'launch'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) launch
the act of launching

2. (noun) launch
the movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built

3. (noun) launch
the boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like

4. (verb) launch
to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly

5. (verb) launch
to strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce

6. (verb) launch
to cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship

7. (verb) launch
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

8. (verb) launch
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; -- often with out

Translation of 'launch'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a boat or ship) slide into the water or (a rocket) leave the ground As soon as the alarm was sounded, the lifeboat was launched; The Russians have launched a rocket.
Afrikaans: tewaterlating, lansering	Arabic: يُطْلِقُ صاروخا أو يُنْزِ	Bulgarian: изстрелвам
Brazilian: lançar	Czech: spustit; vypustit	German: ins Wasser lassen, abschi
Danish: søsætte; opsende	Greek: καθελκύω, εκτοξεύω	Spanish: botar, echar al mar
Estonian: vette laskma,üles lennuta	Farsi: به آب انداختن؛ راه انداخت	Finnish: laskea vesille, laukaista
French: lancer	Hebrew: לְהַשִׁיק	Hindi: जलावतरण
Croatian: lansirati	Hungarian: vízre bocsát (hajót); kil	Indonesian: meluncurkan
Icelandic: hleypa af stokkunum; skjó	Italian: lanciare; mettere in acqu	Japanese: 発射する
Korean: (보트 등을) 수면에 띄우다	Lithuanian: nuleistiį vandenį, paleis	Latvian: nolaistūdenī (kuģi); pala
Malay: melancarkan	Dutch: te water laten, lanceren	Norwegian: sjøsette; skyte opp
Polish: wodować, wystrzelić	Persian: به آب انداختن؛ راه انداخت	Pashto: په اوبو كښى اچول،لكه بيړى
Portuguese: lançar	Romanian: a lansa	Russian: спускать на воду; запуска
Slovak: spustiť na vodu; vypustiť	Slovenian: splaviti, izstreliti	Serbian: lansirati
Swedish: sjösätta, skjuta ut (av,	Thai: ปล่อย	Turkish: suya indirmek; uzaya fırl
Taiwanese: 使首次下水(指船)，發射(火箭)	Ukrainian: спускати судно на воду; з	Urdu: جہاز کو پانی میں تیرانا ،
Vietnamese: hạ thuỷ; phóng	Chinese: 使（船）下水，发射（火箭）
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