Definitions for launches

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launches launch

Spelling: [lawnch, lahnch]

IPA: /lɔntʃ, lɑntʃ/

Launches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in launches (acehlnsu).

Definitions for launches

noun

1. the act of launching.
2. a heavy open or half-decked boat propelled by oars or by an engine.
3. a large utility boat carried by a warship.

verb (used with object)

1. to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
2. to float (a newly constructed boat or ship) usually by allowing to slide down inclined ways into the water.
3. to send forth, catapult, or release, as a self-propelled vehicle or weapon:
4. to start (a person) on a course, career, etc.
5. to set going; initiate:
6. to throw; hurl:
7. to start (a new venture) or promote (a new product):
8. Computers. to start (a software program).

verb (used without object)

1. to burst out or plunge boldly or directly into action, speech, etc.
2. to start out or forth; push out or put forth on the water.

Origin of launches

1300-50; late Middle English launche Anglo-French lancher Late Latin lanceāre to wield a lance; see lance¹

Examples for launches

Not enough of her could be found, of which to build a launch.

And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.

launch your arrows at me, sir, if you'll have the goodness; not at Him!'

With those words was a promise to launch the first group of passengers in the coming year.

Then came the report of an attempt to launch an airplane from the roof of Berlin.

He argues persuasively that the decision to launch the attack was completely contrary to reason and good military judgment.

An arrow appears indicating the direction you will launch your ball.

Thou hast often heard me launch out in praise of her complexion.

Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.

The strange brig had hauled up for us even before we got out the launch.