Definitions for launch
lɔntʃ, lɑntʃlaunch

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. launchnoun

   a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

2. launching, launchverb

   the act of propelling with force

3. establish, set up, found, launchverb

   set up or found

   "She set up a literacy program"

4. launchverb

   propel with force

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

5. launchverb

   launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage

   "launch a ship"

6. plunge, launchverb

   begin with vigor

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

7. launch, set in motionverb

   get going; give impetus to

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

8. launchverb

   smoothen the surface of

   "launch plaster"

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Launchverb

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

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

2. Launchverb

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

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

3. Launchverb

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

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

4. Launchverb

   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

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

5. Launchverb

   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

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

6. Launchnoun

   the act of launching

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

7. Launchnoun

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

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

8. Launchnoun

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. launch

   The largest or long boat of a ship of war. Others of greater size for gunboats are used by the French, Spaniards, Italians, &c., in the Mediterranean. A launch being proportionably longer, lower, and more flat-bottomed than the merchantman's long-boat, is in consequence less fit for sailing, but better calculated for rowing and approaching a flat shore. Its principal superiority consists in being much fitter to under-run the cable, lay out anchors, &c., which is a very necessary employment in the harbours of the Levant, where the cables of different ships are fastened across each other, and frequently render such operations necessary.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. launch

   To throw as a spear or dart; to send forth. Written also lanch.

Matched Categories

1. • Begin
   • Launch
   • Motorboat
   • Move
   • Open
   • Propel
   • Smooth

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

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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

Examples of launch in a Sentence

1. Samantha Heller:

   There is no one miracle food that will launch us into immortality, the lifestyle as a whole must be considered, including daily physical activity and eating less( of) animal foods like meat, cheese and butter. It is easiest to encourage people to eat a variety of plant foods such as salads, trail mix, roasted vegetables, pasta primavera, almond butter and banana sandwiches, lentil soup, or edamame hummus.

2. Harry Kazianis:

   With North Korea never promising to completely stop all missile testing — it only promised a self-imposed moratorium of testing long-range missiles such as ICBMs that can hit the U.S. homeland — we should not be shocked by North Korea's short-range launch.

3. The IMF:

   The debt sustainability assessment will take place after the launch of the program (agreed with creditors) in two or three months. The IMF will then be able to evaluate whether to intervene.

4. Andrew House:

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

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

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