launching

verbsend off
verbbegin, initiate

Synonyms for launching

verb send off

Antonyms for launching

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "to rush, plunge, leap, start forth; to be set into sudden motion," from Old North French lancher (Old French lancier) "to fling, hurl, throw, cast," from Late Latin lanceare "wield a lance," from Latin lancea "light spear" (see lance). Sense of "set (a boat) afloat" first recorded c.1400, from notion of throwing it out on the water; generalized by 1600 to any sort of beginning. The noun meaning "a leap or a bound" is from mid-15c., from the verb. Meaning "the liftoff of a missile, spacecraft, etc." is from 1935. Launch pad attested from 1960.

Example Sentences for launching

Now came the question of launching, and it was not lightly to be answered.

The list of the boat made the launching of some of these impossible.

They had a spyglass, and a good-sized dory was ready for launching.

An awful silence followed the launching of that thunderbolt.

The common industry at Bennett was now the launching of boats.

The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.

The doctor was never weary of launching his satirical shafts at the king.

"They're launching missiles faster than we can shoot them down," he said.

Such was the launching of the first ship in the new navigation of the clouds.

Elephants were, of old, employed in India in the launching of ships.

launching

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launching

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