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Definition launch
Etymology 1
From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jčrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.
Verb
launch (third-person singular simple present launches, present participle launching, simple past and past participle launched)
- (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- (transitive, computing) to cause (a program) to operate
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- (intransitive, computing) (of a program) to start to operate
Noun
launch (plural launches)
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
Etymology 2
From Portuguese lancha (“barge, launch”), apparently from Malay lancar (“quick, agile”). Spelling influenced by the verb above.
Noun
launch (plural launches)
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