verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 to start an activity, especially an organized one:
to launch an appeal / an inquiry / an investigation / a campaign * to launch an attack / invasion
2 to make a product available to the public for the first time:
a party to launch his latest novel * The new model will be launched in July.
3 to put a ship or boat into the water, especially one that has just been built:
The Navy is to launch a new warship today. * The lifeboat was launched immediately.
4 to send sth such as a spacecraft, weapon, etc. into space, into the sky or through water:
to launch a communications satellite * to launch a missile / rocket / torpedo
5 ~ yourself at, from, etc. sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for launch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does launch appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — launch appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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