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   launch

   /lɔːn(t)ʃ/

   verb

   • 1. set (a boat) in motion by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water: "the town's lifeboat was launched to rescue the fishermen" Similar set afloatfloatput to seaput into the watersend down the slipway
   • ▪ set (a newly built ship or boat) afloat for the first time with an official ceremony: "the ship was launched in 1843 by Prince Albert"
   • ▪ send (a missile, satellite, or spacecraft) on its course: "they launched two Scud missiles" Similar send into orbitput into orbitblast offtake offlift off
   • ▪ hurl (something) forcefully: "a chair was launched at him" Similar throwhurlflingpitchlobtosscastlet flypropelprojectfireshootinformal:chuckheavesling
   • ▪ make a sudden energetic movement: "I launched myself out of bed"
   • ▪ utter (criticism or a threat) vehemently: "he launched a biting attack on BBC chiefs"
   • 2. start or set in motion (an activity or enterprise): "the government is to launch a £1.25 million publicity campaign"
   • ▪ introduce (a new product or publication) to the public for the first time: "two new Ford models are to be launched in the US next year"

   noun

   • 1. an act or instance of launching something: "the launch of a new campaign against drinking and driving"
   • ▪ an occasion at which a new product or publication is introduced to the public: "a book launch"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘hurl a missile, discharge with force’): from Anglo-Norman French launcher, variant of Old French lancier (see lance).

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   What does it mean to launch something?

   • To launch something is to propel it or get it going, usually from a standing position. You can launch a rocket, a career, a product or even a watermelon. Either way, you're getting it off the ground. Launch often means to start something, but to start it in a big way: "The launch of the shuttle was also the launch of a new era in space travel."

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   What does launch yourself mean?

   • Residents have launched a protest against the proposed development. [transitive] launch yourself + adv./prep. to jump forwards with a lot of force Without warning he launched himself at me. (figurative) She launched herself on the rock world with a brilliant album.

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   What does it mean to launch a boat?

   • 1. to make (a boat or ship) slide into the water or (a rocket) leave the ground. As soon as the alarm was sounded, the lifeboat was launched; The Russians have launched a rocket. 2. to start (a person, project etc) off on a course. His success launched him on a brilliant career.

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   What does launching a lance mean?

   • That sense of launch is so far first evidenced, as it happens, during the heydey of knights launching lances. This sense of launch, meaning “to a set (a boat or ship) in the water,” is recorded in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a remarkable poem about that legendary leader of knights, King Arthur, dated to around 1400.

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   to float (a newly constructed boat or ship) usually by allowing to slide down inclined ways into the water. to send forth, catapult, or release, as a self-propelled vehicle or weapon: Rockets were launched midway in the battle. The submarine launched its torpedoes and dived rapidly.

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   To launch something is to propel it or get it going, usually from a standing position. You can launch a rocket, a career, a product or even a watermelon.

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