Australian English Meaning of launch

Launch

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Definitions and Meaning of launch in English

Wordnet

launch (n)

a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

the act of propelling with force

Wordnet

launch (v)

set up or found

propel with force

launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage

begin with vigor

get going; give impetus to

smoothen the surface of

Webster

launch (v. i.)

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

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

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

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.

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.

Webster

launch (n.)

The act of launching.

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

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.

FAQs About the word launch

Launch

a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck, the act of propelling with force, set up or found, propel with force, launch for the first time; launch on a maide

Create,establish,found,inaugurate,initiate,Institute,introduce,pioneer,begin,Constitute

abolish,end,stop,close down,Shut up,annul,finish,halt,void,phase out

launce => lance, laumontite => laumontite, laughworthy => Laughable, laughton => Laughton, laughterless => laughterless,