launch

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

launches

V_ing/Gerund

launching

V_ed/pp

launchedlauncht

1.
(transitive)To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
Đồng nghĩa: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
2.
(obsolete, transitive)To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
Đồng nghĩa: lance, pierce
3.
(transitive)To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
1725–1726, Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
The navy launched another ship.
4.
(transitive)To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
NASA launched several unmanned rockets before launching any of the Mercury astronauts.
5.
(transitive)To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
Our business launched a new project.
6.
(transitive)(transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.
7.
(transitive)To release; to put onto the market for sale
8.
(intransitive)Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
9.
(intransitive, often)(intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
to launch into an argument or discussion
to launch into lavish expenditures
10.
(intransitive)(intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
After clicking the icon, the application will launch.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

launcheslanch

1.
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.)
2.
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
3.
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
product launch
book launch
4.
(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
5.
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
6.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.

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Đồng nghĩa

fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtlelobpeck pegpick

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unlaunchedautolaunchlaunchablelauncheelauncherlaunchfullaunchwaymislaunchoutlaunch overlaunchpostlaunchprelaunch relaunchunlaunchlaunch forthfailure to launchlaunch one's lunchhard-launchlaunch intolaunch lunch

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English launchen (to throw as a lance), Old French lanchier, another form (-/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.