Launch

[lɔːntʃ] or [lɔntʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck.

(verb.) smoothen the surface of; 'launch plaster'.

(verb.) propel with force; 'launch the space shuttle'; 'Launch a ship'.

(verb.) get going; give impetus to; 'launch a career'; 'Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process'.

(verb.) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; 'launch a ship'.

手打:奥齐--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

(v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

(v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

(n.) The act of launching.

(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

手打:奥利

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Throw, hurl, cast, dart, lance.[2]. Slide from the stocks (as a ship).

v. n. Enlarge, expatiate, descant, dilate, launch out.

尤因整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Propel, hurl, embark, expatiate, enlarge

ANT:Repress, recall, ignore, avoid

編輯:马克斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to throw as a lance or spear: (Shak.) to pierce or cut with a lance: to send forth: to cause to slide into the water.—v.i. to go forth as a ship into the water: to come into new relations make a transition.—n. act of launching or moving a newly-built ship from the stocks into the water: the largest boat carried by a man-of-war: (Spens.) a lancing.—n.pl. Launch′ing-ways the timbers on which a ship is launched.—n. Steam′-launch a large passenger-boat propelled by steam-power and used largely on rivers.

校對:托妮