launch

1. 1.

   a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

   Broadermotorboat
2. 2.

   the act of propelling with force

   Synonymslaunching

   Broaderpropulsion

   Narrowerrocket firing

Other forms of launch

plural

launches·

past tense

launched·

present participle

launching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about launch

What does launch mean?

launch means "set up or found". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in launch?

launch has 1 syllable: launch. In IPA it is /ˈlɔntʃ/.

What is another word for launch?

Close synonyms include establish, set up, found, plunge, set in motion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is launch a common word?

launch is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.