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dinghy

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?d??(?)i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?d??.i/
    • Rhymes: -??i
  • Rhymes: -???i

Etymology

From Bengali ?????? (?i?ga).

Noun

dinghy (plural dinghies)

  1. (nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
  2. (nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.
Synonyms
  • tender

Translations

Derived terms

  • sailing dinghy
  • dinghy towing

Verb

dinghy (third-person singular simple present dinghies, present participle dinghying, simple past and past participle dinghied)

  1. (intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

Anagrams

  • hyding

French

Noun

dinghy m (plural dinghys)

  1. (nautical) dinghy

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launch

English

Alternative forms

  • lanch (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: lônch, IPA(key): /l??nt??/
  • (some accents) enPR: länch, IPA(key): /l??nt??/
  • (US) enPR: lônch, IPA(key): /l?nt??/
  • (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /l?nt??/, /l?nt??/
  • Rhymes: -??nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English launchen (to throw as a lance), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.

Verb

launch (third-person singular simple present launches, present participle launching, simple past and past participle launched or (obsolete) launcht)

  1. (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
    • 2011, Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, page 323
      There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears []
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
    Synonyms: lance, pierce
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses
      And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
  3. (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
    • Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
    • 1725–1726, Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
      With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
  4. (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
    • 1978, Farooq Hussain, "Volksraketen for the Third World" in New Scientist
      A cheap rocket that could launch military reconnaisance satellites for developing countries has become involved in a tangled web of Nazi rocket scientists, Penthouse magazine, KGB disinformation, and a treaty reminiscent of the height of colonialism in Africa.
  5. (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
    • 1649, Eikon Basilike
      All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England.
  6. (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
  7. (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
  8. (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
  9. (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon: On the Vanity of the World, Preface
      In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths []
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 23:
      My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
  10. (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
Translations

Noun

launch (plural launches)

  1. 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.)
  2. The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
  3. An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
  • book launch
  • launching (as a noun)
  • pre-launch
Related terms
  • launching ways
Translations

Etymology 2

From Portuguese lancha (barge, launch), apparently from Malay lancar (quick, agile). Spelling influenced by the verb above.

Noun

launch (plural launches)

  1. (nautical) 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. (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
  3. (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
Derived terms
  • captain’s launch
Translations

See also

  • barge
  • boat
  • ship’s boat
  • yacht

References

Anagrams

  • chulan, nuchal

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