launch

launch
launch1
—launchable, adj.
/lawnch, lahnch/, v.t.
1. to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
2. to float (a newly constructed boat or ship) usually by allowing to slide down inclined ways into the water.
3. to send forth, catapult, or release, as a self-propelled vehicle or weapon: Rockets were launched midway in the battle. The submarine launched its torpedoes and dived rapidly.
4. to start (a person) on a course, career, etc.
5. to set going; initiate: to launch a scheme.
6. to throw; hurl: to launch a spear.
7. to start (a new venture) or promote (a new product): They launched a new breakfast cereal.
8. Computers. to start (an application program).
v.i.
9. to burst out or plunge boldly or directly into action, speech, etc.
10. to start out or forth; push out or put forth on the water.
n.
11. the act of launching.
[1300-50; late ME launche < AF lancher < LL lanceare to wield a lance; see LANCE1]
Syn. 5. inaugurate, institute.
launch2
/lawnch, lahnch/, n.
1. a heavy open or half-decked boat propelled by oars or by an engine.
2. a large utility boat carried by a warship.
[1690-1700; < Sp, Pg lancha, earlier Pg lanchara, first attested in 1515 in an account of boats encountered near the Strait of Malacca; of unclear orig.; neither Malay lancar "swift" nor Rom outcomes of LL lanceare (see LAUNCH1) are fully convincing as sources; mod. Malay lanca is < Pg]

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▪ boat
also called  Longboat,  

      largest of a ship's boats, at one time sloop-rigged and often armed, such as those used in the Mediterranean Sea during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although present-day launches can travel under sail or by oar, most are power-driven. Because of their weight, they are seldom used by merchant ships but are often deployed as armed craft from warships. Launches are capable of carrying large numbers of men and are also useful for transporting anchors, cannons, and other heavy objects.

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