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set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"

begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

smoothen the surface of; "float plaster"

propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"

launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; "launch a ship"

set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"

take off or begin; "launch into a speech"

begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

smoothen the surface of; "float plaster"

propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"

launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; "launch a ship"

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

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.

The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

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; - often with out.

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

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.

The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

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; - often with out.

To move or cause to slide into the water, as a vessel; send forth; hurl; dart.

To put to sea; plunge; enter on a new career; the sliding of a ship from the ways into the water; the largest boat of a man-of-war; a motor boat, usually used for pleasure.

Act of launching a ship; large boat.

To go forth.

To send forth; cause to slide into water.

To slide into the water, as a boat; start; set out; throw, as a dart.

The act of launching; a large open boat generally propelled by steam, electricity, or naphtha.

The movement of a ship from the land into the water; a kind of long flat-bottomed boat, now generally propelled by a small steam-engine. See Lance.

To throw, as a lance; to send forth; to cause to slide into the water.

To glide or shoot into the water; to go forth; to expatiate in language.

To dart or let fly; to move or cause to move into the water, as a ship; to go or fly off; to go or send forth; to expatiate in language.

The largest boat carried by a man-of-war; the act of launching or putting a new-built ship off the stocks into the sea.

n. The sliding of a ship from the land into the water;— the largest size of boat belonging to a ship.