LAUNCH

Launch

A launch is a large motorboat. Originally it was the largest boat carried by a warship. The word comes from the Portuguese lancha "barge", from Malay lancha, lancharan, "boat," from lanchar "velocity without effort," "action of gliding smoothly" .

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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. (Compare: to splash a ship.)

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
  2. A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
  3. An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)

Verb

  1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
  2. To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
  3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
  4. To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
  5. To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.


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