To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
To start to operate.
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
To release; to put onto the market for sale
To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
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".
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.)
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.