launch

• adopt
• advent
• alpha
• appearance
• arrange
• arrival
• ascent
• author
• barrage
• baseline
• begin
• beginning
• birth
• blast off
• blastoff
• bombard
• bow
• bowl
• break the ice
• break the seal
• buck
• bung
• cast
• catapult
• childhood
• chuck
• commence
• commencement
• conceive
• concoct
• constitute
• construct
• contrive
• cradle
• create
• creation
• dart
• dash
• dawn
• dawning
• day one
• debut
• develop
• devise
• discharge
• dispatch
• drawing board
• drive
• eject
• embark upon
• embrace
• emergence
• endow
• enlarge
• establish
• expand
• fabricate
• father
• finance
• fire
• first base
• fling
• flip
• found
• founding
• fountain
• fountainhead
• fund
• generate
• genesis
• germ
• get going
• get off
• get show on road
• get to
• get-go
• git-go
• ground zero
• gun
• heave
• hook
• hurl
• hurtle
• impel
• inaugurate
• inauguration
• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• infancy
• initiate
• initiation
• innovate
• instigate
• institute
• institution
• introduce
• invent
• jump
• kick off
• kickoff
• lance
• lead off
• let fly
• lift off
• liftoff
• lob
• loft
• make up
• manufacture
• morning
• nascence
• nascency
• onset
• open
• opening
• organize
• origin
• originate
• origination
• outset
• pass
• peg
• pelt
• pioneer
• pitch
• plant
• precipitate
• produce
• project
• propel
• put up
• refound
• reinitiate
• reinstitute
• relaunch
• rifle
• roll
• root
• seedbed
• send forth
• set about
• set afloat
• set going
• set in motion
• set up
• shoot
• sling
• source
• spawn
• spring
• square one
• start
• start ball rolling
• subsidize
• systematize
• systemize
• take on
• take up
• takeoff
• threshold
• throw
• thrust
• toss
• usher in
• well
• wellspring
• youth

• abandon
• abolish
• annihilate
• annul
• catch
• cease
• cessation
• close
• closing
• closure
• complete
• completion
• conclude
• conclusion
• crash
• demolish
• desist
• destroy
• discontinue
• end
• ending
• exterminate
• extinguish
• finale
• finish
• forsake
• halt
• hold
• keep
• knock off
• landing
• lay off
• leave
• nullify
• omega
• period
• phase out
• quit
• receive
• splashdown
• stop
• terminate
• termination
• wind up
• windup
• wrap up

• noun
  1. 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.).
  2. The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
  3. An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
  4. 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".
  5. A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
  6. An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
• verb
  1. To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
  2. To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
  3. To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
  4. To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
  5. To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
  6. To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
  7. To release; to put onto the market for sale.
  8. Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
  9. (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
  10. (of a program) To start to operate.

• They will launch the new product next week.
• The company is planning to launch a major advertising campaign.
• She was excited to launch her new business venture.
• The rocket will launch at exactly 10:00 AM tomorrow.
• We gathered for the launch of the new software update.

wading

ran

gave rise to

nascency

jetting

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