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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

Breton

Verb

taga

1. to attack

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?a?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Adverb

taga

1. (preceding a place) from or denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region
2. (preceding a proper noun) denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun)

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a??a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Verb

taga

1. to give

Pronunciation 3

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?a?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Noun

taga

1. a fishhook

Verb

taga

1. to fish or catch with a hook

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *taka, from Proto-Uralic *taka. Cognate to Finnish takana, Veps taga, Northern Sami duohki, Tundra Nenets [script needed] (?a??n?, “away, at the back, earlier”), Forest Enets [Term?] (tehone, “at the back”), Selkup [script needed] (t?k, “at the back”), and Kamassian [script needed] (takk??n, “behind”).

Adverb

taga

1. at the back

2. attached (at the back)

Postposition

taga

1. behind (Governs the genitive)

Derived terms

• tagasi
• takka
• taha
• taas
• taamal
• taandama
• tagasõna

Fijian

Noun

taga

1. bag

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Kanuri tágà, from Arabic ??????? (??qa).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: t??g??

Noun

t?g?? f (plural t?g?g?, possessed form t?gàr?)

1. window

References

• Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Irish

Alternative forms

• teaga (parts of Connacht)
• tige (Ulster, parts of Munster)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a??/

Verb

taga

1. present subjunctive analytic of tar
   • 1984, Leabhar Urnaí Malairt Leagain 1984 de réir nósanna Eaglais na hÉireann, p. 62:

     Ár nAthair atá ar neamh,
     go naofar d’ainm,
     go dtaga do ríocht,
     go ndéantar do thoil
     ar talamh mar a dhéantar ar neamh.

     Our Father who art in heaven,
     hallowed by thy name,
     thy kingdom come,
     thy will be done
     on earth as it is in heaven.

Mutation

Japanese

Romanization

taga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Sambali

Noun

tagâ

1. fishhook

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-taga (infinitive kutaga)

1. to lay (eggs)

Inflection

Swedish

Verb

taga (present tager, preterite tog, supine tagit, imperative tag)

1. Dated form of ta.

Conjugation

Anagrams

• agat, gata

Tagalog

Noun

tagâ

1. stab marks

Preposition

taga

1. from

Anagrams

• gata

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *taka.

Postposition

taga

1. behind, in behind, at the back of (stationary location)

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *t?kan?.

Verb

taga (preterite to or tåo, supine täje or taje or töje or toi or tö, middle tagas)

1. (transitive) To take.

Related terms

• tag
• tak
• tâ rett
• tagas

See also

• naamm
• laabb