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Meaning:
Noun:
- nautical A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
- nautical An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish ''lancha''.)
- 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".
- The act of launching.
- 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.)
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Verb:
- often with out To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures.
- obsolete To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
- transitive To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
- transitive To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
- transitive To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to take off, propel with force
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