Usually means: Initiate or begin a new activity.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word launch:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. launch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. launch: Merriam-Webster
  3. launch, launch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. launch, launch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. launch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. launch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Launch, launch: Wordnik
  8. launch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. launch: Wiktionary
  10. launch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. launch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. launch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Launch, launch: Dictionary.com
  14. launch (n.), launch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. launch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LAUNCH (Innovation Challenge), Launch (boat), Launch (ship), Launch, The Launch (song), The Launch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Launch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. launch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. launch: Rhymezone
  20. launch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. launch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. launch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. launch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. launch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. launch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. launch: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. launch: Netlingo
  2. launch: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. launch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LAUNCH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. launch: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. launch, launch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. launch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
verb:  (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
verb:  (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
verb:  (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
verb:  (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
verb:  (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
verb:  (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
noun:  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.)
noun:  The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
noun:  An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
noun:  (nautical) 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".
noun:  (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
noun:  (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.

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