单词 | unlaunched |
释义 | unlaunchedadj. Not launched (in various senses of launch v.).In quot. a1640: not lanced (cf. launch v. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > [adjective] > launched > not unlauncheda1640 a1640 W. Fenner Four Profitable Treat. (1657) 17 Like a boyl unlaunched [1656 unlaunced], it is yet sound. 1653 W. Allen Let. 24 Oct. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) I. 539 Three [ships] there were, that were unlaunched, which are to be ready to launch in a month. 1791 W. W. Carr Poems Var. Subj. 6 You, ye unlaunch'd spirits, yet unborn. 1810 Ld. Byron Nurse's Dole in Occas. Pieces 3 The good ship Argo..still unlaunch'd from Grecian docks. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 128 To allow the unlaunched ship to remain and rot. 1934 Illustr. London News 22 Sept. 444/1 (caption) Unlaunched lifeboats on the port side of the ‘Morro Castle’. 1957 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 17 Oct. 11/3 Soviet satellite engineers could study the detailed plans for our own unlaunched Mouse satellite. 2015 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Business section) 51 I've worked for a completely green entrepreneur with an unlaunched product who demanded meetings with the Financial Times, BBC and Guardian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1640 |
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