self-launchingadj.

Brit.

/ˌsɛlfˈlɔːn(t)ʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌsɛlfˈlɔn(t)ʃɪŋ/,

/ˌsɛlfˈlɑn(t)ʃɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, launch v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < self- prefix + launch v. + -ing suffix².

That launches itself, usually automatically; (Aeronautics) designating a glider with a small engine which allows it to take off without being towed.

ΚΠ

1873 R. Roper Brit. Patent 1560 1 A new or improved Captain's bridge, constructed as a self-launching Life Raft.

1900 Sci. Amer. 30 June 404/1 (heading) A self-launching fire ladder.

1939 Washington Post 7 July 13/1 A self-launching lifeboat leaped off the Battery seawall this afternoon..and listed so perilously to starboard that..the inventor, and two of his sons,..had to scramble overboard in lifebelts.

1961 Aeroplane 26 Oct. 555/2 Recently we have had the ‘self-launching sailplane’. This is a term which implies that it will only be bought by someone who believes it right to use an engine to reach the first up-current but wrong to use it to reach the next or any subsequent up-current, unless he first glides all the way back to earth and then takes another ‘self-launch’.

1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 72/4 Anchoring is courtesy of a self-stowing, self-launching 16kg Delta and 30m of chain.

2010 Gaz. (Colorado Springs) 22 Sept. A6/3 The A-10 West Demonstration Team, along with a self-launching glider.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	self-launching
释义	self-launchingadj. Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈlɔːn(t)ʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈlɔn(t)ʃɪŋ/, /ˌsɛlfˈlɑn(t)ʃɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, launch v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < self- prefix + launch v. + -ing suffix². That launches itself, usually automatically; (Aeronautics) designating a glider with a small engine which allows it to take off without being towed. ΚΠ 1873 R. Roper Brit. Patent 1560 1 A new or improved Captain's bridge, constructed as a self-launching Life Raft. 1900 Sci. Amer. 30 June 404/1 (heading) A self-launching fire ladder. 1939 Washington Post 7 July 13/1 A self-launching lifeboat leaped off the Battery seawall this afternoon..and listed so perilously to starboard that..the inventor, and two of his sons,..had to scramble overboard in lifebelts. 1961 Aeroplane 26 Oct. 555/2 Recently we have had the ‘self-launching sailplane’. This is a term which implies that it will only be bought by someone who believes it right to use an engine to reach the first up-current but wrong to use it to reach the next or any subsequent up-current, unless he first glides all the way back to earth and then takes another ‘self-launch’. 1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 72/4 Anchoring is courtesy of a self-stowing, self-launching 16kg Delta and 30m of chain. 2010 Gaz. (Colorado Springs) 22 Sept. A6/3 The A-10 West Demonstration Team, along with a self-launching glider. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1873
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