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单词 launching
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launchingn.

Brit. /ˈlɔːn(t)ʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlɔn(t)ʃɪŋ/, /ˈlɑn(t)ʃɪŋ/
Etymology: < launch v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of launch v.
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the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > [noun]
lancing1470
launching1599
launch1814
boat launch1822
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > [noun] > lancing
lancing1470
launching1599
lancinationa1631
syringotomy1753
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > entering upon a course of action
intrado1609
impriminga1639
launching1725
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 84 That launching and progression of the mind, Which all men haue.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 95 Nought but lanching can the wound auayle.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. Fathers in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 501 Such ill-Rigg'd Shippes, would euen in launching sinck.
1669 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 259 This signifieth our launching into Eternity.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 82 Such miserable havock has launching out into..remote undertakings made among tradesmen.
1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 28 The lowering or launching of the finished Caisson.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 129 The launching of a large steam-boat attracted a great assemblage of spectators.
1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 332 Birds may be approached much nearer by this means than by any other kind of ‘launching’.
1967 Listener 23 Feb. 263/3 Admittedly, the launchings will be carried out by American rockets from an American site, but the satellites themselves are purely British-built.
1971 Nature 6 Aug. 357/2 It is not safe to base a rocket development project on a single launching once a year.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
launching-cord n.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 4/1 The Princess..has only to sever the launching cord to set the Irresistible free.
launching-cradle n.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 4/1 The launching cradle is a massive structure of wood and iron, weighing 300 tons.
launching-line n.
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1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 124 It swims at the line representing the launching line.
launching platform n.
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1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 50/1 Ordinary aeroplanes were carried in fighting-ships with a launching-platform.
1957 Jane's Fighting Ships 1957–58 413 The missile is using jet-assisted rocket bottles to launch it from its zero-length launching platform.
launching site n.
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1944 Aeronautics Aug. 27/1 The counter attack, by bombing the launching sites in the Pas de Calais, was intensified.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 766/2 Israel had also agreed to launching-sites on her territory for United States atomic rockets and guided missiles.
launching station n.
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1897 Strand Mag. June 712/1 We had better not make the launching station a place like the bank of the river, where it can go only one way.
1944 A. Huxley Let. 9 July (1969) 507 Five thousand launching stations, firing off twenty robots [sc. rockets] apiece—and that would be the end of any metropolis.
1958 C. C. Adams et al. Space Flight p. xi A space station would serve as a ‘launching station’ for space ships to the moon, saving fabulous amounts of precious fuel.
C2.
launching-cleat n. the block of wood fastened to a ship when in dry dock or on the slips, to catch the head of the ‘shore’.
launching pad n. the area on which a rocket stands for launching; also figurative and transferred.
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society > travel > air or space travel > use or science of rockets > [noun] > launch > launch pad
pad1949
launching pad1951
rocket pad1963
1951 D. C. Cooke & M. Caidin Jets, Rockets & Guided Missiles 138 Under a blazing afternoon sun, at 3.14 p.m., a modified V-2 rocket carrying a WAC-Corporal in its nose rose slowly from its concrete launching pad.
1958 Daily Mail 16 Aug. 1/4 The 88 ft. rocket stands poised on its concrete launching pad here tonight looking like a giant silver propelling pencil.
1959 Encounter Dec. 74/2 All this is by way of a launching-pad for the idea of the Non-Nuclear Club.
1963 A. Huxley Let. 17 Feb. (1969) 948 Julian tells me that your book is now definitely on the launching pad.
1973 Guardian 31 Jan. 13/7 The NUS sees the rent-strike movement as a launching pad for its main campaign.
launching-planks n. (see quot.).
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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 128 Launching planks, a set of planks mostly used to form the platform on each side of the ship, whereon the bilgeways slide for the purpose of launching.
launching-punt n.
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1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 326 Hampshire Launching-punt.
launching-sledge n. a boat used in shooting wild fowl (cf. launch v. 9).
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1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 332 The light launching sledge is in the foreground.
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launching-tube n. a tube in a war-vessel for launching torpedoes.
launching-ways n. = launching-planks n.
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1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Launching-ways, the same as Bilge-ways.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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