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launch

If you launch something, you throw it. During the fight, he launched a dart at my head. Luckily, he missed. If you launch a boat, you put it in water. Bob is having a party to launch his new speed boat this weekend. If you launch something, you start it or get it going. The movie star is going to launch her new clothing line next month. If I can get the money I need, I plan to launch my restaurant within a year. This opportunity could really launch your career.

launch

(= set up, found) set up or found She set up a literacy program propel with force launch the space shuttle Launch a ship launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage launch a ship (= plunge) begin with vigor He launched into a long diatribe She plunged into a dangerous adventure a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck (= set in motion) get going; give impetus to launch a career Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process smoothen the surface of launch plaster (= launching) the act of propelling with force

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launch · verb

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Simple sentences

He is planning to launch his business.
They are going to launch an artificial satellite tomorrow.
The launch was successful. We're now leaving the solar system.
The most important thing now is to launch direct dialogue, genuine, full-fledged dialogue between today's Kiev authorities and representatives of southeast Ukraine.
The cargo spacecraft exploded a few seconds after launch.
The satellite launch was broadcast live.
Since the launch of NASA's Kepler telescope in 2009, astronomers have found thousands of planets outside of our solar system.
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope took place on April 24, 1990, during the STS-31 mission.
Thirty years after its launch, Hubble continues to provide us with stunning, detailed images of the universe.
Iran plans to launch a monkey into space.
As it is written, the birds are preparing to launch an attack on us as we speak!
The rocket exploded on the launch pad.

Movie subtitles

We were celebrating the launch of the new, uh, Web site for the-for the company.
We're about to launch you into the Daskasan region, between the borders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
To launch the reward, the grand duchess was giving a grand masked-ball, which Fandor, skilled at edging his way into anywhere, had decided to attend.
Just now the spaceship has reached the launch pad because the spaceship is built too light to stand freely, it's submerged in a water-basin in which it floats upright.
Launch-rocket depleted! Full throttle on middle-rocket!
I'll tell you just one thing, Friede, as soon as I have the spaceship ready to launch again, I'll fly back to earth - and neither Helius nor Manfeldt will stop me -!
I have enough to do, to get us ready to launch again!
The enormous shock of the launch will naturally wake the sleepers - and then Mr Windegger will take over the command.
You see, the count has only one launch. and that's under repair.
It isn't true about the launch needing repairs.
You take charge of my log. and slowly make your way out to the launch.
Indeed, in the matter of his command of the Bounty's open launch, we commend Lieutenant Bligh for his courage and exemplary seamanship.
It's always good luck to launch something with champagne.
You've got to launch a battleship at 8:30.
In any event, it's imperative for His Majesty to come to Algeria to launch his policy.
We need to launch an investigation confidentially based on her sworn testimony.
You think they're planning to launch an attack?
Yes. All of the launch plans she mentioned were announced earlier. All of the rocket launches were recorded and completely documented by NORAD.
There was likely a launch today as well.
We have a successful launch.
Put him in a launch and cast him adrift.
Clear the launch and lower away!
Oh, can't I launch the guy?
When an expensive Galubert is used to launch a star who's paid peanuts, Galubert doesn't stand for it.
I just came aboard on the official launch to meet some friends.
Why didn't you postpone the launch?
I had neither the time nor the inclination for an emotional scene. By the time the police reached the plane wreckage I was gone to the launch I had waiting.
I'd ask that boy in that launch down there.
Oh, the dragonhead launch brought me over.
Launch it with the sheriff.
This country will not launch a war.
Try to intercept a power launch.
Mr. Starkey, this is Morris on the launch speaking.
And who would launch it?
Lower the launch.

News and current affairs

Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an invasion from Turkish territory.
The Syrians might be tempted to launch an offensive against Israel with the objective of breaking the deadlock over the future of the Golan Heights.
The Secretary General's launch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network is therefore especially timely.
The most damning criticism of McCain's plan is that it would launch a new Cold War between states labeled democracies and autocracies.
But, at the same time, the international community should place greater emphasis on policies aimed at inducing North Korea to launch serious economic reform.
Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.
Governments and parliaments have an obligation to launch a thorough review of the Basel rules, and to demand revisions that align them with the public interest.
The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness.
Innovative and entrepreneurial French Huguenots contributed mightily to the launch of the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly; liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter-day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system-cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.
As the launch of the peace process at the 1991 Madrid International Peace Conference demonstrated, the prospects for peace in the Middle East always needed a concerted international push to exploit windows of opportunity.
The second is to launch a preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the Iranian program and setting back its progress by an estimated two or more years.
A half-century after the foundation of a common market and 15 years after the launch of the common currency, Europe still lacks a united police force and a single foreign policy.
It certainly will not provide a forum for debating any of the long awaited, urgently needed, and unavoidable political reforms that China must launch.
Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
Indeed, the success of the European Union and of the euro since its launch in 1999 has made a strong impression in Africa.
It must begin by giving notice to those who are now a decade away from retirement - which is why it is important to launch such reforms now.
The money needed to launch an LEU bank is in place, thanks primarily to a non-governmental organization - the Nuclear Threat Initiative - and initial funding from Warren Buffett.
It detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1952, only one year after the US, and it was the first to launch a satellite into space, in 1957.
Since its launch, the SCO's military exercises have become increasingly ambitious, growing from largely bi-lateral to inclusion of all members.
As foreign firms launch operations in the labor-intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local workforce.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch, at the foreign-minister level, of negotiations between Iran and the European triumvirate of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on Iran's nuclear program.

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