launch

suomi-englanti sanakirja

launch englannista suomeksi

To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.

(syn)

{{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Stephen Budiansky|title=Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815|page=323
To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
{{quote-text|en|year=1591|author=Edmund Spenser|title=The Teares of the Muses
To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
(RQ:King James Version)
1725–1726, (w), ''Homer's Odyssey'' (translation), Book V

With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.

(ux)

To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
{{quote-text|en|year=1978|author=Farooq Hussain|chapter=Volksraketen for the Third World|title=New Scientist
To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
{{quote-text|en|year=1649|title=Eikon Basilike
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
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To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.

(usex)

To release; to put onto the market for sale
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-09-07|volume=408|issue=8852|magazine=The Economist
Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to off.
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
{{quote-text|en|year=1718|author=Matthew Prior|title=Solomon: On the Vanity of the World|section=Preface
{{quote-text|en|year=1969|author=Maya Angelou|title=I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|chapter=23
To start to operate.
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.)
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-07-20|volume=408|issue=8845|magazine=The Economist
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a party.
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".
A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.