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Imagining vs Launching - What's the difference?

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Imagining is a related term of launching.


As nouns the difference between imagining and launching

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

As verbs the difference between imagining and launching

is that imagining is while launching is .

imagining

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something imagined.
  • * 1977 , Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard'' in ''Izitso , Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
    • Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love...
  • * 2006 , Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines , Writer's Digest Books, page 15,
    • Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings .

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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.