Word Meanings - LAUNCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly. 2. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds. Spenser. 3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch

Additional info about word: LAUNCH

1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly. 2. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds. Spenser. 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. Pope. 4. To send out; to start on a career; to set going; to give a start to ; 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. Eikon Basilike.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAUNCH)

• Broach
• Moot
• start
• launch
• originate
• suggest
• exhibit
• propound
• Embark
• Launch
• euler

Related words: (words related to LAUNCH)

• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• BROACHER
  1. A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden. 2. One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• PROPOUNDER
  One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.
• LAUNCH
  1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly. 2. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds. Spenser. 3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch
• SUGGESTMENT
  Suggestion. They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.
• EMBARKATION
  1. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops. 2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.
• EXHIBITOR
  One who exhibits.
• ORIGINATE
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
• EXHIBITER
  One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. Shak.
• START
  sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly,
• STARTINGLY
  By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.
• STARTLISH
  Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
• DISEMBARKMENT
  Disembarkation.
• COMBBROACH
  A tooth of a wool comb.
• ASTARTE
  A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
• DISEMBARK
  To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops. Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. Shak.
• UNORIGINATELY
  Without origin.
• TURNBROACH
  A turnspit. " One that was her turnbroach." Beau. & Fl.