American English pronunciation

How to pronounce rockets

IPA transcription: ['ɹɑkəts]

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Noun

  • any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

  • a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

  • erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

  • propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

  • sends a firework display high into the sky

Verb

  • shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

    “prices skyrocketed”

  • propel with a rocket

Usage examples

  • Three rockets were fired from away and destroyed their ground targets.
  • Vertical takeoff refers to aircraft or rockets that take off in a vertical trajectory.
  • Rockets, the Kelowna Buckaroos, the Penticton Junior Vees, and the Vernon Junior Canadians.
  • Sounding rockets often use military surplus rocket motors.
  • In contrast to liquid-fuel systems that have less advantage in comparison to solid-fuel rockets.
  • Outside of Rocketship, Newland has freelanced for other animation companies.
  • The Clippers also sent their second round pick Furkan Aldemir to the Houston Rockets.
  • It included plants for producing solid-propellant rockets and ammunition.
  • The main building was hit by five incendiary rockets.
  • One reason rockets are launched in Florida has to do with the Earth's rotation.