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US
/ˈɹɑkət/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɒkɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɒkɪt/ ]
NOUN
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- sends a firework display high into the sky
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
VERB
- propel with a rocket
-
shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
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How To Use rocket In A Sentence
- A short umbilical cable rolled out with the rocket which was fired by electrical impulse, breaking the cord.
- Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
- Spray the fountain, then fire a rocket at the Bowlarama.
- We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
- It doesn't stop you from using solid rocket motors or engines designed in archaic units. NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch
- And the 21m he banked off the course is certain to rocket as new sponsors clamber on board the gravy train. The Sun
- A leading rocket scientist, Nair's contribution to the development of multistage satellite launch vehicles is immense.
- The launch vehicle employed comprised three stages, the first stage being the highly successful Redstone rocket.
- A new study showed that while street crime is rocketing, the number of thugs brought to book is plummeting. The Sun
- The revival rocket is still climbing and Wasps have now won their first four games for the first time in over a decade. Times, Sunday Times