launch

Definitions

• (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
• (transitive) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
• (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
• (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
• (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
• (transitive) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
• (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
• (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
• (intransitive) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
• (intransitive) To start to operate.