• launch •
Printable Version Pronunciation: lawnch • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: 1. To hurl, thrust, or propel into motion, as to launch a rocket. 2. To put a boat or ship in the water for the first time. 3. To initiate, give a start to, to commence a project, as to launch a new website or a new word-based company like our new company, The Lexiteria Company (TLC).
Notes: Today's word may be used as a noun or a verb. An act of launching is a launch, as the launch of the Alpha Dictionary site today. We hope that you will enjoy it as it grows and offers more and more information about language. Welcome to our new website and all the Good Words it will bring you in the future. appropriate, since it is most often used in that sense.
In Play: With the launch of this, our own new website, the entire former staff of yourDictionary.com welcomes you to our new website, alphaDictionary, and the company behind it, The Lexiteria, the word and translation company. Expect a new Good Word in the tradition of Dr. Language (Dr. Robert Beard), formerly the CEO of yourDictionary.com, served up every day on a new server system that never crashes.
Word History: This good word comes from Old North French lancher, from Latin lanceare "to wield a lance", based one lancea "a lance". Where this word comes from is one of those etymological mysteries we bump into from time to time. The Romans may have borrowed it from one the Celtic tribes they frequently exchanged lances with.
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