Definitions for launch

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Spelling: [lawnch, lahnch]

IPA: /lɔntʃ, lɑntʃ/

Launch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in launch (achlnu).

Definitions for launch

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 launch

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

Examples for launch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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