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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

ride a launch

English answer:

ride a launch

Added to glossary by Suely Massarenti
May 15, 2007 16:16
17 yrs ago
English term

ride a launch

English Other Other Collocations
What word is used with a launch ( a large boat), 'ride a launch' or 'sail a launch'?
Responses
4 +3 ride a launch
4 ride
4 -2 I launnched the boat
Change log

May 17, 2007 14:30: Suely Massarenti Created KOG entry

Discussion

Tony M May 15, 2007:
'sail' sounds faintly silly in such close quarters with a motor-boat, and in any case, would imply that the person was actually going to be in charge of steering the damn thing. 'sail aboard a launch' would be a better possibility for a mere passenger.

Responses

+3
4 mins
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ride a launch

This seems to be an acceptable usage:

Or, ride a launch through the Rio Terraba mangroves to a beautiful island. Enjoy a private picnic and hike along trails to admire flora and fauna. ...
www.laparcela.net/activities.html

This will be an anchor port so all cadets will have to ride a launch back and forth to shore. Preparations have already started for arrival and tomorrow ...
www.tamug.edu/Corps/sc2006/report_0707.htm

Pay to ride a launch to the island. Pay again to ride a motorboat to the grotto, and pay a 3rd time to ride a skiff into the grotto - for two minutes. ...
www.coloradoskihistory.com/blog/1996/09

Day 31 - Tuesday We are only in Sitka for the morning so we are up early to ride a launch into port. Home sweet floating home ...
www.jjdtech.com/JJTrip2006/Week5/index.htm

We wanted to ride a launch from Rajamundhry to Kovvur. A small thatch hut housed a couple of guys who owned the launches and organized trips. ...
www.indiamike.com/india/archive/index.php/t-22834.html


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Note added at 10 minutos (2007-05-15 16:27:09 GMT)
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"Take a launch" is another valid option.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : Another way round it, sentence permitting, mmight be to say 'board a luanch' (the inference being of course that you are then going to travel in it..!)
42 mins
neutral Peter Mills (X) : There is something about "ride" that makes it sound like you are on the launch for the pleasure of the journey rather than trying to get to a destination. If the destination is more important than the journey then I would use "take", as in take a bus etc.
16 hrs
I agree that "take a launch" works, but I don't agree with your distinction between pleasure and destination. See some of the examples above. Also, I can "ride a bus" to work everday, which is not for pleasure. Or I could "take a launch" to go sightseeing
agree Seema Ugrankar
1 day 7 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
6 days
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3 mins

ride

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2 hrs

I launnched the boat

I don't think "ride a launch" is used to describe launching a boat to a lake or ocean. Just use, "launch the boat".

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-05-15 18:23:58 GMT)
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For example, "I launched the boat to the lake with some help from my friends."
Peer comment(s):
disagree Tony M : 'to launch a boat' is not the same as 'to travel in a launch'
49 mins
disagree Peter Mills (X) : "Launch" is a noun here, not a verb.
14 hrs
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