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单词 launches
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launch

1 of 3

verb

ˈlȯnch How to pronounce launch (audio)
ˈlänch
launched; launching; launches

transitive verb

1
a
: to throw forward : hurl
launched an arrow at a target
b
: to release, catapult, or send off (a self-propelled object)
launch a rocket
2
a
: to set (a boat or ship) afloat
b
: to give (a person) a start
launched her on a new career
c(1)
: to put into operation or set in motion : initiate, introduce
launch a business
launch a fund drive
(2)
: to get off to a good start
a literary dinner to launch the book Newsweek
d
: to load into a computer's memory and run
launch a program

intransitive verb

1
a
: to spring forward : take off
The catapult snagged and the plane overturned before it could launch.
b
: to enter energetically
launched into an impromptu speech Tim Tucker
2
a
archaic : to slide down the ways
b
: to make a start
had launched on his hour of study Hallam Tennyson

launch

2 of 3

noun (1)

: an act or instance of launching

launch

3 of 3

noun (2)

1
: a large boat that operates from a ship
2
: a small motorboat that is open or that has the forepart of the hull covered

Synonyms

Verb

  • begin
  • constitute
  • establish
  • found
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • introduce
  • pioneer
  • plant
  • set up
  • start

Noun (1)

  • blastoff
  • liftoff
  • takeoff
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Example Sentences

Verb The enemy launched an attack at sunrise. She's trying to launch a new career as a singer. The police have launched an investigation into his activities. He helped launch her in her career as a singer. The company is expected to launch several new products next year. You can launch the program by double-clicking on the icon. See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb and Noun (1)

Middle English, from Anglo-French *lancher, lancer, from Late Latin lanceare to wield a lance — more at lance

Noun (2)

Spanish or Portuguese; Spanish lancha, from Portuguese

First Known Use

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

Noun (1)

1749, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1697, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

launch 1 of 3

verb

ˈlȯnch How to pronounce launch (audio)
launched; launching
1
: to throw or spring forward : hurl
McNab scooped up a handful of track stones. He launched one. Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
2
: to send off especially with force
launch a spacecraft
3
: to set afloat
launch a ship
4
: to give a start to : begin
launch a plan

launch

2 of 3

noun

: an act of launching
a rocket launch

launch

3 of 3

noun

: a small open or partly covered motorboat

launches 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of launch
1
as in founds
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of after retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • founds
  • establishes
  • initiates
  • introduces
  • creates
  • pioneers
  • inaugurates
  • begins
  • institutes
  • innovates
  • starts
  • plants
  • constitutes
  • organizes
  • invents
  • originates
  • constructs
  • develops
  • manufactures
  • devises
  • produces
  • sets up
  • concocts
  • fathers
  • conceives
  • authors
  • expands
  • funds
  • relaunches
  • contrives
  • subsidizes
  • enlarges
  • arranges
  • finances
  • systematizes
  • fabricates
  • endows
  • makes up
  • cooks (up)
  • reinitiates
  • reinstitutes
  • systemizes
  • refounds
  • thinks (up)
  • puts up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • closes (down)
  • shuts (up)
  • abolishes
  • stops
  • halts
  • ends
  • annihilates
  • finishes
  • nullifies
  • terminates
  • annuls
  • phases out
  • rounds (off or out)
  • winds up
  • wraps up
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2
as in begins
to take the first step in (a process or course of action) she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • begins
  • commences
  • starts
  • opens
  • creates
  • initiates
  • leads off
  • generates
  • kicks off
  • gets going
  • inaugurates
  • organizes
  • sets about
  • gets off
  • adopts
  • invents
  • innovates
  • falls (to)
  • gets to
  • embarks (on or upon)
  • establishes
  • originates
  • founds
  • spawns
  • strikes (into)
  • enters (into or upon)
  • institutes
  • embraces
  • fathers
  • pioneers
  • takes on
  • takes up
  • sets up
  • gets around (to)
  • gets down (to)
  • gets round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • finishes
  • ends
  • concludes
  • terminates
  • stops
  • halts
  • completes
  • ceases
  • closes
  • discontinues
  • quits
  • abandons
  • leaves
  • lays off
  • destroys
  • desists
  • abolishes
  • knocks off
  • forsakes
  • demolishes
  • extinguishes
  • exterminates
  • phases out
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3
as in throws
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm infantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • throws
  • hurls
  • tosses
  • flings
  • catapults
  • fires
  • slings
  • casts
  • lobs
  • heaves
  • bowls
  • flips
  • lofts
  • pitches
  • chucks
  • hurtles
  • dashes
  • pegs
  • pelts
  • lets fly
  • propels
  • thrusts
  • rolls
  • ejects
  • shoots
  • passes
  • darts
  • guns
  • projects
  • hooks
  • precipitates
  • rifles
  • impels
  • bucks

launches

2 of 2

noun

plural of launch
1
as in takeoffs
a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket) the reporters held their collective breath as they silently watched the space shuttle's launch

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • takeoffs
  • liftoffs
  • blastoffs
  • ascents

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • landings
  • crashes
  • splashdowns
2
as in starts
the point at which something begins we are at the launch of a new age of space exploration

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • starts
  • beginnings
  • commencements
  • inceptions
  • onsets
  • alphas
  • dawns
  • geneses
  • thresholds
  • day ones
  • outsets
  • baselines
  • kickoffs
  • births
  • incipiencies
  • incipiences
  • debuts
  • nascencies
  • inaugurations
  • originations
  • infancies
  • mornings
  • nascences
  • initiations
  • git-goes
  • origins
  • get-goes
  • drawing boards
  • ground zeros
  • first bases
  • cradles
  • arrivals
  • square ones
  • springs
  • openings
  • fountains
  • sources
  • creations
  • institutions
  • emergences
  • débuts
  • germs
  • wells
  • advents
  • fountainheads
  • appearances
  • roots
  • wellsprings
  • childhoods
  • seedbeds
  • youths

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ends
  • closes
  • conclusions
  • endings
  • stops
  • periods
  • finishes
  • closures
  • completions
  • closings
  • terminations
  • finales
  • omegas
  • cessations
  • windups
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