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# launch

«launch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to send a rocket, missile or spacecraft up into the air…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (launch, launches, launched, launching); noun (a launch, launches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To launch is to send a rocket, missile or spacecraft up into the air or space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#m1)

2) To launch a boat is to put it into the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#m2)

3) To launch something new is to start it or make it available to the public (launch a book, a product, a website). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#m3)

4) A launch is the act of launching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#m4)

5) A launch is also a large motorboat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, rockets are launched using powerful engines; pupils launch water or paper rockets and measure how far they travel. In everyday life, companies launch new games and phones; schools launch projects and campaigns. In computing, to launch an app means to open it. Phrases: launch a rocket, launch pad, product launch, launch an attack, launch into a story.

### examples

- The rocket was launched into space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x1)
- We launched our model boat on the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x2)
- The company will launch a new game soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x3)
- Our school is launching a recycling project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x4)
- The spacecraft sits on the launch pad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x5)
- Tap the icon to launch the app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x6)
- Grandpa launched into a long story about the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x7)
- At a sign from the king it was launched, and floated proudly and safely like a bird on the waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: launched, launching. Plural noun: launches. «Launch into» something means start it with energy. In maths problems about rockets, «launched» is the start time; height then changes over time.

### In the corpora

- [In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/6/)
- [NASA's Europa Clipper launched in 2024 and should reach Jupiter in 2030 to study whether Europa could support life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/11-jupiters-moons/10/)
- [Europe's JUICE spacecraft, launched in 2023, will reach Jupiter in 2031 and end by orbiting Ganymede.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/11-jupiters-moons/15/)
- [NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/10/)
- [The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «launch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/launch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.