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launch

In computing, to start up a program. Many applications contain embedded programs (such as help screens or formatting options), with the result that users may launch programs without being aware they are doing so.
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I knew that he looked with disapproval upon my plan to visit England, and I did not know but what at his first opportunity, he might desert us, taking the launch with him, and attempt to return to Pan-America.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
A second inscription above the door informed us that a steam launch was kept,--a statement which was confirmed by a great pile of coke upon the jetty.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
I never see a steam launch but I feel I should like to lure it to a lonely part of the river, and there, in the silence and the solitude, strangle it.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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