different between launch vs blastoff
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??/
- (cot–caught 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)
- (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 […]
- 2011, Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, page 323
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1978, Farooq Hussain, "Volksraketen for the Third World" in New Scientist
- (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.
- 1649, Eikon Basilike
- (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (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.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon: On the Vanity of the World, Preface
- (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
Translations
Noun
launch (plural launches)
- 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.)
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- 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)
- (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".
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- (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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blastoff
English
Etymology
blast +? off
Noun
blastoff (plural blastoffs)
- The countdown and launch of a rocket, missile or spacecraft
Related terms
- blast off (verb)
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