Sling vs Launch - What's the difference?
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To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
To throw with a sling.
* Bible, Judges xx. 16
(nautical) To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
(weapon) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Francis Grose, title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=43
, passage=The Sling is also a weapon of great antiquity, formerly in high estimation among the ancients.}}
A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby.
A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
(nautical) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1600, author=William Shakespeare, title=Hamlet'', Act III, Scene I, line 55
, passage=To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them.}}
(climbing) A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
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=(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.}}
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, title= * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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
Sling is a related term of launch.
In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between sling and launch
is that sling is (nautical) a band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural while launch is (nautical) an open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like (compare spanish lancha ).As verbs the difference between sling and launch
is that sling is to throw with a circular or arcing motion while launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.As nouns the difference between sling and launch
is that sling is (weapon) an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other while 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".sling
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Verb
- (Addison)
- Everyone could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.
Derived terms
* underslingNoun
(en noun)- At one sling / Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son.
- gin sling
- a Singapore sling
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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- 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
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