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launch | faunch |

As verbs the difference between launch and faunch

is that launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force while faunch is (us|horses) to bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.

As nouns the difference between launch and faunch

is that launch is the act of launching or launch can be (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" while faunch is (dated|fandom slang) a desire; a yearning.

launch

English

Alternative forms

* lanch (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.

Verb

(es)
  • To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
  • * 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323
    • There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
  • (obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
  • * 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
    • And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
  • To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
  • *
    • Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
  • * 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
    • With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
  • To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
  • * 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
    • All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.}}
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Kill or cure , passage=On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.}}
  • (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
  • * 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface
    • In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
  • * 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
    • My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
    Synonyms
    * (to pierce) lance, pierce

    Noun

    (es)
  • The act of launching.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
  • 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.)
    • Derived terms
    * launching (as a noun) * launching ways

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (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".
  • (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
  • (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha .)
    • Derived terms
    *

    See also

    * barge * boat * * yacht

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    English ergative verbs

    faunch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fauch * fawnch

    Noun

    (es)
  • (dated, fandom slang) A desire; a yearning.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1999 , monthday = January 19 , author = Kathy Routliffe , email = , title = Re: Mame , id = 36A3FCD4.5097D338@flash.net , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/2qWzQ47EI5c/jL-MU_sFOigJ }}
    Byrne was the best thing about *Man in the Iron Mask*, as far as plot and acting. I do confess a faunch for John Malkovitch, and DiCaprio should be allowed to develop his considerable latent acting abilities.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2001 , monthday = September 05 , author = Joel Rosenberg , email = , title = Re: Waaaaaaaaaah I wanna go to a Con! , id = huwl7.256335$Jg.32070285@typhoon.kc.rr.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/gN1ySyK2iVg/gD-AQFiQEF0J }}
    Me, I'd caution against a Worldcon as one's first convention for somebody who has such a faunch -- not to the point of avoiding it, if one were handy -- as while there's a lot that's fun at a Worldcon, it tends to be on the largish side, it's fairly easy to get lostish, and in most times and places (at least in the US) there's likely to be a good convention closer in time and space than the next Worldcon.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (US, horses) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1954 , year_published = 2008 , first = Mari , last = Sandoz , authorlink = Mari Sandoz , title = The Buffalo Hunters , page = 6 , isbn = 9780803218802 , passage = Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1986 , first = Jerry , last = Bumpus , authorlink = , title = Heroes and Villains , section = The Outdoorsman , page = 59 , isbn = 9780914590934 , passage = Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces. }}
  • (US, chiefly, Midland American English, and, Western American English) To complain; to rant; to rave.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1931 , year_published = 1997 , first = Anne , last = Ellis , authorlink = , title = Plain Anne Ellis , page = 151 , isbn = 9780803267367 , passage = But on the evening before election, a staunch Democrat who had been on one of our telephone jobs came to my door — just faunching and spluttering. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1943 , year_published = 1995 , first = John B. , last = Sanford , authorlink = John Sanford (author) , title = The People from Heaven , page = 5 , isbn = 9780252064913 , passage = You won't make nothing the day I die. I'll go out fighting and faunching . }}
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1998 , monthday = September 09 , author = Charley L. Walker, Jr. , email = , title = Don't be misled... , id = 6t6vjo$gj8$1@juliana.sprynet.com , group = austin.general , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/austin.general/tYC5gjzVRFs/Zfeob6IKYbkJ }}
    Right Wingers can rant, stomp, faunch , condemn and mislead all day long and pack the laws with well archestrated(sic) bigotry and bias from here til doomsday.
  • (US, chiefly, Midland American English, and, Western American English) To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1998 , monthday = June 02 , author = Wade Hampton Miller , email = , title = There's a nice archtop for sale at Downtown Disney , id = 1998060219431000.PAA29427@ladder01.news.aol.com , group = rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic/rch8j8C2VdE/7ZpXQ0qd5scJ }}
    Rather than have me fidget and faunch while waiting in line (I'd neglected to bring a book) my wife sent me off to the music store with her blessing, with the promise to send our daughter Celia to fetch me when we finally got our table an hour later.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2003 , first = Harold , last = Keith , authorlink = , title = Forty-Seven Straight , page = 166 , isbn = 9780806135694 , passage = Licking his fingers, Pat buckled on his white helmet and went to work. Wilkinson's relieving elevens were always faunching to go into action anyhow. }}
  • (dated, fandom slang) To desire; to yearn; to covet.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/foxtrot.html , section = Joe Fann/Jophan , passage = He is a young fellow, not long out of adolescence, who faunches to set the world on fire but isn't sure how to go about it. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1996 , date = January , first = Eric , last = Lindsay , magazine = Gegenschein , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Gegenschein/geg73.htm , issue = 73 , section = Winter Convention Trip in the USA, June 1994 , passage = I've long faunched for these, and they turned out to be better constructed than I expected, and even included a padded carry bag. }}
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2003 , monthday = May 09 , author = David Dyer-Bennet , email = , title = Re: Should I upgrade my camera? , id = m2of2bigf2.fsf@gw.dd-b.net , group = rec.photo.digital , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.photo.digital/GsmXnaFTUJA/saOfRjZxMYMJ }}
    One thing you will learn *very* quickly is that, while you can do a very broad range of photography indeed with cheap equipment, there is *always* some very expensive toy you faunch over that will let you do something a little bit better.

    Derived terms

    * faunch and rear * faunch at the bit

    References

    * faunch in the Dictionary of American Regional English