Launch

Definition:

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

Compare launch with other words:

conduct vs. launch

enact vs. launch

launch vs. maunch

launch vs. raunch

haunch vs. launch

launch vs. paunch

launce vs. launch

adopt vs. launch

launch vs. promote

deliver vs. launch

ferry vs. launch

alpha vs. launch

alfa vs. launch

launch vs. thrown

despatch vs. launch

launch vs. spark

launch vs. lunge

introduce vs. launch

implement vs. launch

hustle vs. launch

innovate vs. launch

commencement vs. launch

coble vs. launch

content vs. launch

launch vs. tackle

instigate vs. launch

launch vs. steamer

launch vs. mobile

launch vs. organize

launch vs. remove

commence vs. launch

emission vs. launch

issue vs. launch

initiation vs. launch

launch vs. run

eject vs. launch

launch vs. springboard

blockhouse vs. launch

launch vs. start

bomb vs. launch

launch vs. missile

founded vs. launch

launch vs. lunch

launch vs. shell

cradle vs. launch

catapult vs. launch

begin vs. launch

dock vs. launch

launch vs. release

barge vs. launch

launch vs. yacht

launch vs. naphtha

launch vs. ship

boat vs. launch

launch vs. water

launch vs. movement

launch vs. vessel

launch vs. plunge

launch vs. stock

launch vs. swiftness

force vs. launch

launch vs. operation

launch vs. send

career vs. launch

afloat vs. launch

launch vs. slide

launch vs. propel

launch vs. pierce

fly vs. launch

hurl vs. launch

lance vs. launch

lanch vs. launch

launch vs. splash

execute vs. launch

launch vs. orbit

launch vs. throw

dart vs. launch

launch vs. tag