Launch vs Produce - What's the difference?
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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
(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
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* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
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)
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, title= (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
* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
The act of launching.
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, title= 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.)
(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 .)
English ergative verbs
To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
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* 1856 , , Volume 3,
* 1999 , Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification , Volume 3, CSIRO Publishing,
* 2000 , Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand'', Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension ,
* 2006 , Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006 ,
* 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2008 , Primary Australian History: Book F , R.I.C. Publications,
* 2010', Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, ''Measuring Dimuons '''Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS'', Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, Bikash Sinha (editors) , ''The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785,
To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
* 1810 , Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings: volume 8
* 2006 , Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation ,
* 2007 , Transit Cooperative Research Program TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers ,
(media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
* 1982 January 30, Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets'', '' ,
* 2001 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films ,
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 ,
(mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
(obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
Items produced.
Amount produced.
Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
* 1852 , F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields ,
* 1861 , William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition ,
* 1999 , Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990 ,
* 2008 , Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices ,
Offspring.
(Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
In transitive terms the difference between launch and produce
is that launch is to send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation while produce is to make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.launch
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Alternative forms
* lanch (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.Verb
(es)- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
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Kill or cure, passage=On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.}}
- In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
- 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, pierceNoun
(es)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.}}
Derived terms
* launching (as a noun) * launching waysEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(es)Derived terms
*See also
* barge * boat * * yachtAnagrams
*References
produce
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Verb
(produc)- the greatest jurist his country had produced
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- At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
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- Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
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- For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country?s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
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- The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
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- We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
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- He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
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- Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
- It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
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- LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an antiMormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
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- The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
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- David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.
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- In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings , an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
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- This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
- to produce a side of a triangle
- to produce a man's life to threescore
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Noun
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- All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
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- Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
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- While it is true that New Zealand?s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
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- A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
Usage notes
Frequently used in the collocation , since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”.Why do you call it “the produce aisle”?
