Launch
Definition of Launch
Pronunciation: lạnch or länch | v. i. | 1. | To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly. | | 2. | To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. | | 3. | To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship. | | 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. | | 1. | 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. | | n. | 1. | The act of launching. | | 2. | The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. | | 3. | (Naut.) 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. |
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