launch

v. put a boat in the water; send forth; start; run, activate (Computers); inaugurate; throw; break into, burst into

n. act of launching; act of setting afloat; act of sending out; act of starting or initiating; commencement, inauguration; large motorboat; large boat carried by a warship

To launch means to establish, to debut or to send out. In this sense, launch can refer to:Ship naming and launching, when a ship or boat is dispatched from a slipway, prior to fitting out and commissioningRocket launch, the launching of a rocketLaunch may also refer to:Launch (boat), a type of boatLunch (Dragon Ball), the English name of a character in Dragon BallLAUNCH, the brand of Yahoo! Music prior to 2005LAUNCH (magazine), a CD-ROM magazine also created by LAUNCH MediaLaunch!, a Bigpond Cable authentication program for OS X
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LAUNCHcast is an Internet radio service offered by Yahoo! Music that plays music based on user ratings and preferences. Users with  Yahoo! accounts can gain access to hundreds of thousands of songs sorted by artist, album, song and genre. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, was purchased by Yahoo! in 2001.
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Noun
1. a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
(hypernym) motorboat, powerboat
2. the act of propelling with force
(synonym) launching
(hypernym) propulsion, actuation
(hyponym) rocket firing, rocket launching
Verb
1. set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
(synonym) establish, set up, found
(hypernym) open, open up
2. propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"
(hypernym) propel, impel
(hyponym) float
(derivation) launching
3. launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; "launch a ship"
(hypernym) set in motion
(derivation) launching
4. begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
(synonym) plunge
(hypernym) get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
(verb-group) plunge
5. get going; give impetus to; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"
(synonym) set in motion
(hypernym) move, displace
6. smoothen the surface of; "float plaster"
(hypernym) smooth, smoothen

(v. i.)
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
  

(v. i.)
To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
  

(v. i.)
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
  

(v. i.)
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
  

(v. i.)
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
  

(n.)
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
  

(n.)
The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
  

(n.)
The act of launching.
  

the process of introducing a new product or service into the marketplace; also called rollout.