American English pronunciation
How to pronounce rockets
IPA transcription: ['ɹɑkəts]
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Noun
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any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
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a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
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erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
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propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
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sends a firework display high into the sky
Verb
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shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
“prices skyrocketed”
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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.