Launch
Launch (lanch or lanch) , intransitive verb
[Old English launchen to throw as a lance, Old French lanchier, another form of lancier, French lancer, from lance lance. See Lance.]
1.
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
2.
To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. [Obsolete]
Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
3.
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship,
And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
4.
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.
All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England.
Launch , intransitive verb
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.
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
He [Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths.
Launch , noun
1.
The act of launching.
2.
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
3.
(Nautical) 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.