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Embryo vs Launching - What's the difference?

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Embryo is a related term of launching.


As nouns the difference between embryo and launching

is that embryo is while launching is the act by which something is launched; a launch.

As a verb launching is

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embryo

English

Alternative forms

* (plural forms) * (plural forms) * (plural forms)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
  • An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
  • In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
  • In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
  • (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
  • The beginning; the first stage of anything.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo .
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 419:
    • it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]

    Derived terms

    * embryology * embryonic

    Related terms

    * fetus, foetus * zygote

    External links

    * ("embryo" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    launching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is launched; a launch.
    • The launching of the Titanic.
  • * 2010 , Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets (page 123)
    • By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

    Usage notes

    * Launch'' suggests an event at a point in time. ''Launching suggests a process over time.