A rocket is a space vehicle or missile, or the special engine that's meant to propel such a vehicle into the air. You can even get a model rocket that's small enough to shoot off in your back yard.
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Noun
a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
Noun
any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine
Noun
sends a firework display high into the sky
Noun
propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
Noun
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
Verb
propel with a rocket
Verb
shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed"
n.
A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in
Europe as a salad.
n.
Damewort.
n.
Rocket larkspur. See below.
n.
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of
paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as
niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The
rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the
expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition.
Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and
also for pyrotechnic display.
n.
A blunt lance head used in the joust.
v. i.
To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the
present participle or as an adjective.
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An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me.
A cruciferous plant (
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Usage Examples
Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.
Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhat I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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