launch meaning
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[lɔːntʃ] [lɑːntʃ] [lɔntʃ] [lɒntʃ] [lɑntʃ] [-ɔːntʃ] [-ɒntʃ] 
US WLaunch
- Launch may refer to:
- In boating:
- Launch (boat), a large motor boat
- Motor Launch (ML), a small military vessel used by the Royal Navy
- Ship naming and launching, when a ship or boat is dispatched from a slipway, prior to fitting out and commissioning
- In other uses:
- Launch (Dragon Ball), a character in Dragon Ball media
- Rocket launch, first phase of a rocket flight
- Air launch, the practice of dropping an aircraft, rocket, or missile from a mothership
- LAUNCH Media, creators of LAUNCH magazine and LAUNCH.com
- LAUNCHcast (now known as Yahoo! Music Radio), an Internet radio service
- NounPLlaunches
- The act of launching.
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
- 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.).
- (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".
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.).
- The act of launching.
- VerbSGlaunchesPRlaunchingPT, PPlaunched
- VT To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
- VT OBS To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
- VT To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
- VT To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
- VI (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
- VT To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
- A website called Debt Proof Living launched a daily email tipsheet last summer which now has 100,000 subscribers.
- If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- launch window; window of opportunity; You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of launch in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Ergative verbs
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- Ergative verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "launch" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.