launch

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1. launch - Noun

2. launch - Verb

Meaning

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

The act of launching.

The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. Richard Branson

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. Sally Ride

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community. Coretta Scott King

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel. Howard Stern

There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity. Kofi Annan

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