different between launch vs breakfast

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)

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +? fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbry?e, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??kf?st/
• (meal eaten after religious fasting): also IPA^(key): /?b?e?k?fæst/

Noun

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)

1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

   You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

   • 1591, Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, act 1:

     a sorry breakfast for my lord protector
2. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

   We serve breakfast all day.

3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
   • c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis

     The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

Usage notes

• In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: brekfis
• ? Irish: bricfeasta
• ? Maori: parakuihi
• ? Scottish Gaelic: bracaist
• ? Welsh: brecwast

Translations

See also

• brunch
• jentacular

Verb

breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter I, page 12

     "Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […] "

   • May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.

     First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

Synonyms

• break one's fast

Translations

Anagrams

• fast break, fastbreak