Launch vs. Lunge: What's the Difference?

Launch and Lunge Definitions
Launch
To throw or propel with force; hurl
Launch a spear.
Lunge
A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
Launch
To set or thrust (a self-propelled craft or projectile) in motion
Launch a rocket.
Launch a torpedo.
Lunge
A sudden forward movement or plunge.
Launch
(Nautical) To put (a boat) into the water in readiness for use.
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Lunge
To make a sudden thrust or pass.
Launch
To set going; initiate
Launch a career.
Launch a business venture.
Lunge
To move with a sudden thrust.
Launch
To introduce to the public or to a market
Launched the new perfume with prime-time commercials on the major networks.
Lunge
To cause (someone) to lunge.
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Launch
To give (someone) a start, as in a career or vocation.
Lunge
A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
Launch
To begin a new venture or phase; embark
Launch forth on a dangerous mission.
Launched out on her own after college.
Lunge
A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
Launch
To enter enthusiastically into something; plunge
Launched into a description of the movie.
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Lunge
An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
Launch
The act of launching.
Lunge
A fish, the namaycush.
Launch
A large ship's boat.
Lunge
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
Launch
A large, open motorboat.
Lunge
(transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Launch
(transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
Lunge
A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
Launch
To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
Lunge
Same as Namaycush.
Launch
(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
The navy launched another ship.
Lunge
To make a lunge.
Launch
(transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
NASA launched several unmanned rockets before launching any of the Mercury astronauts.
Lunge
To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
Launch
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
Our business launched a new project.
Lunge
The act of moving forward suddenly
Launch
To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.
Lunge
Make a thrusting forward movement
Launch
(transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
Launch
(intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
Launch
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
To launch into an argument or discussion
To launch into lavish expenditures
Launch
To start to operate.
After clicking the icon, the application will launch.
Launch
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.)
Launch
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
Launch
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
Product launch
Book launch
Launch
(nautical) 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".
Launch
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
Launch
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
Launch
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
Launch
To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
Launch
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship,And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
Launch
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.
All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England.
Launch
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.
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
He [Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths.
Launch
The act of launching.
Launch
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
Launch
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.
Launch
A motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
Launch
The act of propelling with force
Launch
Set up or found;
She set up a literacy program
Launch
Propel with force;
Launch the space shuttle
Launch a ship
Launch
Launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage;
Launch a ship
Launch
Begin with vigor;
He launched into a long diatribe
She plunged into a dangerous adventure
Launch
Get going; give impetus to;
Launch a career
Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process
Launch
Smoothen the surface of;
Float plaster