launching site
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈlɔːnʧɪŋ saɪt/
- Specialized
:
sitio de lanzamiento
- Palestinian neighborhoods are dotted with weapons storage facilities, booby-trapped schools, and rocket launching sites.
- rocket launching site
- missile launching sites
We knew that wherever we took off from, whether it was from FoB one or whether it was we had a launch site at Quang Tree.
- We knew that wherever we took off from, whether it was from FoB one or whether it was we had a launch site at Quang Tree.
- But he's Putin's claim was that within a couple hours they could be transitioned into offensive launch sites.
- And it's also been prepared to be shipped out to the launch site down through the Panama Canal to French Guyana.
Examples
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NASA is preparing its latest rocket for liftoff from the newly built launching site at Kennedy Space Center.
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This morning we have proof that the v-2 rockets have no launching sites.
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The launching sites for the B-2 bombs are all in his area.
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Solar Orbiter was launched back in February this year from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida.
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Israel responded to the attack with airstrikes on an infiltration tunnel and a rocket launching site.
Blog text (20) -
In response to rocket fire from Gaza, the Israeli Air Force targeted a weapon storage facility in the central Gaza Strip, as well as two launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip.
Blog text (32) -
Overnight, the IDF targeted approximately 150 medium-range rocket launching sites as well as ammunition storage facilities across the Gaza Strip.
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The launch of the new satellite was conducted from a state-of-the-art launching site in California.
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The military established a secure launching site to improve its missile deployment capabilities.
Synonyms
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4.8
A place like an airport where rockets and spacecraft take off, land, and get fixed
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4.4
A strong platform that rockets or spacecraft use to start their flight
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4.8
A platform where rockets begin their flight into space
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9.9
A place where rockets and spacecraft are launched into space
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4.0
A place where rockets or spaceships start their flight
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4.8
A military place where people keep, fix, and send rockets into the sky
A place where people test or launch rockets under safety rules
How Capable
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4.8
- Specialized
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5.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place equipped for launching rockets or spacecraft' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'launch' (to send or propel into the air) with 'site' (a place or location). This is a productive, compositional noun phrase (a verb-derived modifier + noun) that follows common English patterns and is likely understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun launching site comes from the simple image of a place where people 'launch' boats or rockets; the word launching means to send something into the air or water and site means the place. That's why today launching site means a place with the equipment to send rockets or satellites into space.