Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. launch(noun)

   a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

2. launching, launch(verb)

   the act of propelling with force

3. establish, set up, found, launch(verb)

   set up or found

   "She set up a literacy program"

4. launch(verb)

   propel with force

   "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"

5. launch(verb)

   launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage

   "launch a ship"

6. plunge, launch(verb)

   begin with vigor

   "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

7. launch, set in motion(verb)

   get going; give impetus to

   "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"

8. launch(verb)

   smoothen the surface of

   "launch plaster"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Launch(verb)

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

2. Launch(verb)

   to strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce

3. Launch(verb)

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

4. Launch(verb)

   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

5. Launch(verb)

   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

6. Launch(noun)

   the act of launching

7. Launch(noun)

   the movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built

8. Launch(noun)

   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

Origin: [OE. launchen to throw as a lance, OF. lanchier, another form of lancier, F. lancer, fr. lance lance. See Lance.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Launch

   A launch is a large motorboat. Originally it was the largest boat carried by a warship. The word comes from the Portuguese lancha "barge", from Malay lancha, lancharan, "boat," from lanchar "velocity without effort," "action of gliding smoothly". In the 1700s a launch was used to set the large anchors on a ship. They had a square transom and were about 24 feet long. In 1788 Captain Bligh was set adrift in the "Bounty’s Launch".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Launch

   Lanch, länsh, v.t. to throw as a lance or spear: (Shak.) to pierce or cut with a lance: to send forth: to cause to slide into the water.—v.i. to go forth, as a ship into the water: to come into new relations, make a transition.—n. act of launching or moving a newly-built ship from the stocks into the water: the largest boat carried by a man-of-war: (Spens.) a lancing.—n.pl. Launch′ing-ways, the timbers on which a ship is launched.—n. Steam′-launch, a large passenger-boat propelled by steam-power, and used largely on rivers. [O. Fr. lanchier, lancier (Fr. lancer). See Lance.]

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1. launch

   To move or send a spacecraft or space rocket from a platform or launch pad to the planned destination.

   NASA decided to launch Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander launched from French Guiana on 2 March 2004, 07:17 UTC, and travelled for 3,907 days (10.7 years) to Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'launch' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4742

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'launch' in Nouns Frequency: #1844

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'launch' in Verbs Frequency: #312

Anagrams for launch »

1. Nuchal

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of launch in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of launch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Maat Morrison:

   There's always time to launch your dreams

2. Chief Executive Officer Rupert Pearce:

   We've never had a launch failure in our history.

3. Kathy Winters:

   It looks pretty promising weather-wise for launch.

4. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn:

   The launch of this new dam will be commenced soon.

5. Andrew House:

   I don't think it has been a kind of a rocket launch start.

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