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Launching   /lˈɔntʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Launch  v. i.  (past & past part. launched; pres. part. launching)  (Written also lanch)  
1.
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
2.
To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. (Obs.) "Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds."
3.
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship. "With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep."
4.
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. "All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England."


noun
launching  n.  
1.
The act of moving a newly-built vessel into the water for the first time.
2.
The act of beginning something new.
Synonyms: debut, first appearance, unveiling, introduction, entry.
3.
The act of propelling with force.
Synonyms: launch.





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"Launching" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pentecostal event was like the launching of God's great campaign for the evangelization of the world. The world without the Holy Ghost would be as dark, spiritually, as the material world was in the beginning before the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, and God ...
— Standards of Life and Service • T. H. Howard
... in those brilliant moments, when the young priest is launching out in full glory upon some topic of which he knows not a syllable, that it would be a learned luxury to catch him. These flights, however, are very pardonable, when we consider the importance they give him in the eyes of his friends, and reflect upon that lofty and contemptuous pride, and ...
— Going To Maynooth - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton
... launching the boat. In their dread of the savages I am not sure that they would have waited for us had we been delayed. The boat was quickly in the water, and we all leaped on board. Medley took the steering oar, ...
— The Two Whalers - Adventures in the Pacific • W.H.G. Kingston
... swimmers; there, a fleet of fishing-smacks; a provision-ship loading for a cruise as consort to one of the great war vessels. They passed King Olaf's ship-sheds, where fine new boats were building, and one brilliantly-painted cruiser stood on the rollers all ready for the launching. Along the opposite bank lay the camps of visiting Vikings, with their long ships'-boats floating ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... 1839, to a certain extent, a power in Parliament, launching the shafts of his sarcasm alike at the Chancellor of the Exchequer or an Under Secretary; and in this year he published his tragedy of "Count Alarcos," and married Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, the wealthy widow of his friend and colleague, several years his senior, but through thirty years his invaluable ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various


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