launching 的 3 个定义
- to set in the water.
- to float usually by allowing to slide down inclined ways into the water.
- to send forth, catapult, or release, as a self-propelled vehicle or weapon: Rockets were launched midway in the battle. The submarine launched its torpedoes and dived rapidly.
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- to burst out or plunge boldly or directly into action, speech, etc.
- to start out or forth; push out or put forth on the water.
- the act of launching.
launching 近义词
send off
begin, initiate
更多launching例句
- GQ is looking to deepen its commerce revenue stream with the launch of its new e-commerce store, The GQ Shop, on Tuesday.
- Its Good & Gather grocery line has become a billion-dollar brand less than a year after its launch.
- Similarly, there aren’t any branded content tags available for use at launch, unlike within the main Instagram feed, where influencers can signal they have been paid by an advertiser to promote a product.
- Sportico, a sports business publication planned by Penske Media, has moved its launch date up by three months, before it had even hired any writers.
- Women’s lifestyle title Marie Claire is getting into the sampling business with the launch of Beauty Drawer, opening Monday, 3 Aug, 9.
- An arrow appears indicating the direction you will launch your ball.
- With those words was a promise to launch the first group of passengers in the coming year.
- And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.
- He argues persuasively that the decision to launch the attack was completely contrary to reason and good military judgment.
- Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.
- The launch was about twenty feet long with a small cabin and a fresh coat of brown paint.
- There I deal direct with the San Francisco buyers—and in this launch; it serves me very well as an office.
- He lost his head as the lower gates swung open, and broke the rule of the river by pushing out in front of a launch.
- The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
- Gwynne turned with a start and found that Isabel had run her launch up to a little pier.
Where does launch come from?
Rocket ships and medieval knights wouldn’t seem like they have a lot in common. We launch rocket ships into outer space—something those old knights, trotting around on horseback and wielding their lances, could hardly have ever imagined.
Launch entered English around 1300–50. Back then, launch meant “to rush, spring, send forth, hurl.” Launch comes from French, which in turn comes from Late Latin lanceāre, “to wield a lance.” This verb, lanceāre, is based on the Latin noun lancea, “lance, spear.” The Latin lancea may ultimately come from an ancient Celtic word.
As you’ve probably guessed, the Latin lancea is the ultimate source of the English lance, originally “a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.” Slightly older than the verb launch, lance entered English around 1250–1300.
Now, the Late Latin verb lanceāre also yields the English verb lance. Today, that verb is mainly used for actions of piercing and making incisions—much finer and more careful cuts, thankfully, than resulted from a knight’s lance. But in the early 1300s, lance was effectively a synonym for launch, also meaning “to throw or hurl.”
Dig deeper
When did we start saying we launched such things as boats? That sense of launch is so far first evidenced, as it happens, during the heydey of knights launching lances. This sense of launch, meaning “to a set in the water,” is recorded in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a remarkable poem about that legendary leader of knights, King Arthur, dated to around 1400.
The basic, underlying sense of launch has inspired many other metaphorical extensions, from launching careers and launching products to book launches, campaign launches, and, by the time we entered the Space Age, rocket launches.