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| Verbit |
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
- (transitive) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
Substantiivit
- The act of launching.
- (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".
- 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.)
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha.)
Esimerkit
- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears[...]
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- The navy launched another ship.
- All art is uſed to ſink Epiſcopacy, & lanch Presbytery in England.
- Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
- “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.
- Our business launched a new project. Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.
- In our language, Spenſer has not contented himſelf with this ſubmiſſive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths[...]
- My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
- to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
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