See launch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011, Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, page 323:",
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"word": "lancieren"
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
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"word": "tacar"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lanzar"
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "slänga"
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"ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses:",
"text": "And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 5:4:",
"text": "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.",
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"text": "1725–1726, Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V\nWith stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep."
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"text": "The navy launched another ship.",
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"ref": "1978, Farooq Hussain, “Volksraketen for the Third World”, in New Scientist:",
"text": "A cheap rocket that could launch military reconnaisance satellites for developing countries has become involved in a tangled web of Nazi rocket scientists, Penthouse magazine, KGB disinformation, and a treaty reminiscent of the height of colonialism in Africa.",
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{
"text": "NASA launched several unmanned rockets before launching any of the Mercury astronauts.",
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"text": "Our business launched a new project.",
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"ref": "1649, Eikon Basilike:",
"text": "All art is uſed to ſink Epiſcopacy, & lanch Presbytery in England.",
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{
"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.",
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{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "“[…] 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.",
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{
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"ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:",
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"sense": "start to operate",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lanĉi"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "heitma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "laukaista"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "heittää"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lancer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "abschießen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lancieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lanciare"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hassha-surú",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "発射する"
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{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "launcen"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "launchen"
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"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
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"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "wyrzucić"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lançar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "arremessar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "jogar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "tacar"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запуска́ть"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "запусти́ть"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "vrhnúť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "hodiť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "lanzar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"word": "slänga"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zapuskáty",
"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запуска́ти"
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"sense": "throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force",
"tags": [
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"word": "изхвърлям"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce",
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"sense": "strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "cause to move or slide from the land into the water",
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"roman": "hvǎrljane",
"sense": "act of launching",
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"sense": "act of launching",
"word": "發射"
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"sense": "act of launching",
"word": "heide"
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"sense": "act of launching",
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gašveba",
"sense": "act of launching",
"word": "გაშვება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
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"word": "Start"
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"sense": "act of launching",
"word": "発射"
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"sense": "act of launching",
"word": "whakarewanga"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "whakamānutanga"
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"word": "lançament"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
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"word": "wystrzelenie"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
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"word": "uruchomienie"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
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"word": "lançamento"
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"sense": "act of launching",
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"word": "arremesso"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zápusk",
"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "за́пуск"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "act of launching",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "lanzamiento"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spuskane na voda",
"sense": "movement of a vessel from land into the water",
"word": "спускане на вода"
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"word": "søsætning"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "movement of a vessel from land into the water",
"tags": [
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"word": "tewaterlating"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "movement of a vessel from land into the water",
"word": "vesillelasku"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "movement of a vessel from land into the water",
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"word": "wodowanie"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спуск"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"tags": [
"US"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "largest boat belonging to a ship of war",
"word": "kaater"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "largest boat belonging to a ship of war",
"word": "kapteenin vene"
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"code": "el",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "largest boat belonging to a ship of war",
"word": "rōnihi"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "largest boat belonging to a ship of war",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "barkas"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "barkás",
"sense": "largest boat belonging to a ship of war",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "барка́с"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "boat used to convey guests",
"word": "yhteysvene"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ákatos",
"sense": "boat used to convey guests",
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"word": "άκατος"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "boat used to convey guests",
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "барка́с"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "open boat",
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"word": "llanxa"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "open boat",
"word": "avovene"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open boat",
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"word": "lainse"
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"sense": "open boat",
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"word": "بارکاس"
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"roman": "lāñcī",
"sense": "open boat",
"word": "లాంచీ"
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}
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