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Rocket

Definition: Rocket

Rocket

Noun

1. Any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.

2. A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion.

3. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.

4. Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon.

5. Sends a firework display high into the sky.

Verb

1. Shoot up abruptly.

2. Propel with a rocket.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rocket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Rocket

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

1. A projectile, pyrotechnic device, or flying vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.2. A rocket engine; any one of the combustion chambers or tubes of a multichambered rocket engine. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To see a rocket ascending in your dream, foretells sudden and unexpected elevation, successful wooing, and faithful keeping of the marriage vows.
To see them falling, unhappy unions may be expected. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Military

A self-propelled vehicle whose trajectory or course, while in flight, cannot be controlled. (references)

Space

A device shooting out a fast jet of gas, in order to produce a force in the opposite direction. See center of gravity, also Newton's laws of motion in Mach's formulation. (references)

Transportation

Missile whose motion is due to reaction propulsion and whose flight path cannot be controlled during flight. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Rocket

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For the rocket lettuce, see arugula. A rocket is a vehicle, missile, aircraft (or the engine employed to propel these) which operates by ejecting a reaction mass formed by the combustion of a propellant with an oxidiser, both of which are carried by the rocket; see Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. Rockets range in size from tiny models that can be purchased at a hobby store, to the enormous Saturn V used for the Apollo program.

Rockets are commonly used when it is necessary to carry all the fuel a vehicle needs (such as in outer space) and there is no other substance (land, water, or air) that a vehicle may push itself with. There are many different types of rockets, and a comprehensive list can be found in spacecraft propulsion.

Most current rockets are chemical rockets. A chemical rocket engine may use solid fuel, like the Space Shuttle's SRBs, or liquid fuel, like the Space Shuttle's main engines. A chemical reaction is initiated with the fuel in the combustion chamber, and the hot gases are forced out of a nozzle (or nozzles) at the back end of the rocket. The jet of gases generates thrust that propels the rocket forward.

Another class of rockets in increasingly common use are ion thrusters, which use electrical rather than chemical energy to accelerate their reaction mass. Nuclear thermal rockets have also been developed, but never put into use.

Rockets were first developed by the Chinese as early as B.C. 300, using gunpowder. These were initially developed for entertainment, the precursors to modern fireworks, but were later adapted for warfare in the 11th century. Because the pressures on the rocket walls are lower, the use of rockets in warfare preceded the use of the gun, which required a higher level of metal technology. It was in this role that rockets first became known to Europeans following their use by Ottomans at the siege of Constantinople in 1453. For several more centuries they remained curiosities to those in the West.

At the end of the 18th century, rockets were used militarily in India against the British, who then took up the practice and developed them further during the 19th century. The major figure in the field at this time was William Congreve. From there, the use of military rockets spread throughout Europe. The rockets' red glare helped to inspire the US national anthem.

In military terminology, a rocket is generally solid-fueled and unguided. These can be fired by ground-attack aircraft at fixed targets such as buildings, or can be launched by ground forces at other ground targets. During the Vietnam era, there were also air launched unguided rockets that carried a nuclear payload designed to attack aircraft formations in flight.

V2 Rockets, designed by Wernher Von Braun, one of the principal players in modern rocket development, were used extensively by Adolf Hitler in the latter stages of World War II as weapons of reprisal against the British population.

A missile, by contrast, can be either solid or liquid-fueled, and has a guidance system.

See also:

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Spacecraft propulsion

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

There are many different ways to accelerate spacecraft. Below is a summary of some of the more popular, proven technologies, followed by increasingly speculative methods.

Propulsion methods
MethodSpecific Impulse (seconds)Thrust (Newtons)Duration
Conventional propulsion methods
Solid rocket100-400103- 107minutes
Hybrid rocket150-420minutes
Monopropellant rocket100-3000.1-100millliseconds - minutes
Momentum wheel (attitude control only)n/a0.001-100indefinite
Bipropellant rocket100-4000.1-107minutes
Tripropellant rocket250-450minutes
Dual mode propulsion rocket
Air-augmented rocket500-600seconds-minutes
Liquid air cycle engine450seconds-minutes
Resistojet rocket 200-60010-2-10minutes
Arcjet rocket400-120010-2-10minutes
Hall effect thruster (HET)800-500010-3-10months
Ion thruster1500-800010-3-10months
FEEP (Field Emission Electric Propulsion)10000-1300010-6-10-3weeks
Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPD)2000-10000100weeks
Pulsed plasma thruster (PPT)
Pulsed inductive thruster (PIT)500020months
Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (VASIMR)1000-3000040-1200days - months
Solar thermal rocket
Nuclear thermal rocket900105minutes
Nuclear electric rocketAs electric propulsion method used
Solar sailsN/A9 per km2 (at 1 AU)Indefinite
Mass driversN/AIndefiniteseconds
Tether propulsionN/A1-1012minutes
Technologies requiring more engineering development
Magnetic sailsN/AIndefiniteIndefinite
Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsionN/AIndefiniteIndefinite
Gaseous fission reactor1000-2000103-106
Nuclear pulse propulsion (Orion drive)2000-100,000109-1012 half hour
Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion2000-40,000days-weeks
Nuclear salt-water rocket10,000103-107half hour
Beam-powered propulsionAs propulsion method powered by beam
Nuclear photonic rocket5x1061-105years
Biefeld-Brown effect (see also Lifter)N/A0.01-1 (currently)weeks, probably months
Significantly beyond current engineering
Fusion rocket
Bussard ramjet
Antimatter rocket
Redshift rocket
Requires new principles of physics
Alcubierre drive (Warp drive)Not Applicable
Wormholes
Differential sail
Disjunction drive
Diametric drive
Pitch drive
Bias drive
Time machines

Launch mechanisms

The launch of a spacecraft from the surface of a planet into space places special requirements on the methods of propulsion used. Generally speaking high thrust is of vital importance for launch, and many of the propulsion methods above do not provide sufficent thrust to be used in this capacity. Exhaust toxicity or other side effects can also have detrimental effects on the environment the spacecraft is launching from, ruling out other propulsion methods. Currently, only chemical rockets are used for the launch of spacecraft from Earth's surface.

One advantage that spacecraft have in launch is the availability of infrastructure on the ground to assist them. Proposed ground-assisted launch mechanisms include:

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Stephenson's Rocket

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam-powered railroad locomotive, built by George and Robert Stephenson in 1829.

A common misconception is that the Rocket was the first steam locomotive. In fact the first steam locomotive to run on tracks was built by Richard Trevithick 25 years earlier, but was not financially successful. George Stephenson, as well as a number of other engineers, had built steam locomotives before. Rocket was in some ways an evolution, not a revolution.

What marks the Rocket out, is that it was the first of the 'modern' locomotives, as it used a multi-tubular boiler, which made the engine much more efficient. Previous boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water. Other innovations included in the design were such things as venting the exhaust steam up the chimney to pull fresh air into the fire - increasing the heat of the fire and the pressure in the boiler, making the Rocket quicker.

The design of the Rocket therefore was revolutionary, and nearly all steam locomotives built since have been based upon the Rocket's basic design.

It was designed and built to compete in the Rainhill Trials, a competition to select the locomotive type for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in October 1829. The Rocket won by default as all of the other competitors failed to complete the course.

At the official opening of the railway almost a year later on September 15 1830 the first run of the Rocket was marred by the first railway casualty in history, with the accidental death of William Huskisson.

Stephenson's Rocket still exists and resides at the Science Museum, London in much modified form compared to its state at the Rainhill Trials. The cylinders were altered to the horizontal position, compared to the slanted arrangement as new, and the locomotive was given a proper smokebox.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stephenson's Rocket."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Rocket

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
roboEnglishRocket orbital bomberN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Rocket

Synonyms: arugula (n), garden rocket (n), rocket engine (n), rocket salad (n), roquette (n), skyrocket (v). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: rocketed (transportation).

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Synonyms within Context: Rocket

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt.

Ascent

Rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.

Attack

Bomb, rocket, blast.

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Fuel

Oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number oil, number oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Indication

Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight.

Navigation

Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Ship

Jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.

Velocity

Lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rocket

English words defined with "rocket": ablative, airframe, ammonium nitrate, aqua fortis, Aqua-Lungbazooka, booster, booster rocket, booster unit, BraunCheiranthus asperus, Congreve rocketDamewort, destruct, DiplotaxisErysimum arkansanum, Erysimum asperum, ethanol, ethyl alcoholfermentation alcohol, flight pathgenus Diplotaxis, genus Hugueninia, genus Reseda, Goddard, grain alcoholHugueninia, hydrazine, hydrogen peroxidelauncher, liftoff, Light ball, liquid oxygen, loft, LOXmaimed, missile, multistage rocket, mutilatednitric acid, nose, nose cone, nuclear rocketogiveperoxidereaction engine, reaction-propulsion engine, research rocket, retrorocket, Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocket base, rocket firing, rocket fuel, rocket launcher, rocket launching, rocket propellant, rocket propellent, rocket range, Rocketed, Rocketer, Rocketing, rocket-propelled, rocketrySea rocket, sounding rocket, space rocket, Sticktakeoff booster, takeoff rocket, test instrument vehicle, test rocket, throw-weight, thruster, tilt anglevon BraunWernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun, Wernher von Braun, western wall flower. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rocket": air augmented rocket, aircraft rocket, atomic rocketballoon-type rocket, bipropellant rocketcarrier rocket, control rocketducted rocketelectrostatic rocket, electrothermal rocket, escape rocketideal rocketliquid rocket, liquid-propellant rocket, liquid-propellant rocket enginemeteorological rocket, multiple-stage rocketnuclear rocket engine, nuclear-electric rocket engineplasma rocket, posigrade rocketrocket airplane, rocket motor, rocket nozzle, rocket plane, rocket ramjet, rocket ship, rocket sled, rocket thrust, rocket thrust chamber, rocket vehiclesingle-stage rocket, solid rocket, solid-propellant rocket engine, spin rocket, step rocket, SUPERVISOR, ROCKET PROPELLANT PLANTtester, rocket engine, TESTER, ROCKET MOTOR, theoretical rocketullage rocketwet-fuel rocketzero-length rocket. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rocket

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've a strong suspicion we should have been rocket scientists, or Nobel Peace Prize winners or something (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Which is why we stole the rocket car. (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman)

I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket & flew to the moon (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon.)

And then the monster started growling at me, so I threw rocks at him, and I killed him, and then he started flying around on rocket boost, and I got to ride inside his head, and now the monster's my friend, and we wen-- and we went to get Slurpees (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Lyrics

Oh no no no I'm a rocket man (Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time); performing artist: Elton John)

Like a rocket sled on rails (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL)

But you got me like a rocket (This Kiss; performing artist: Faith Hill)

It's a rocket ship you're ridin (Why They Call It Fallin; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack)

Shoot me like a rocket into space (Lovin' Every Minute Of It; performing artist: Loverboy)

Movie/TV Titles

Rocket Robin Hood (1967)

Auroral Rocket (1964)

Rocket Ranger (1963)

U.S.A. Rocket Attack (1961)

Will Travel Have Rocket (1959)

Song Titles

Rocket 2 U (performing artist: The Jets)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rocket

DomainTitle

Books

  • Rocket Up, Rolie!: Boardbook (Rolie Polie Olie Busy Books, 4) (reference)

  • Rocket Science: 50 Flying, Floating, Flipping, Spinning Gadgets Kids Create Themselves (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Rocket

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Photo Album: Rocket

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Challenger Rocket Booster. Credit: NASA.

Booster Rocket Breach. Credit: NASA.

The sex of a blue crab is determined by the shape of the "apron". The male apron, shown here, is shaped like a rocket. Females have either a "V" shape (immature) or a very wide apron with a small tip (mature.). Credit: America's Coastlines.

Testing a Kilgore Rocket Line-throwing gun on the ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Mounting early TIROS satellite on nose of rocket prior to launch. TIROS satellites were 18-sided polygons, 22 1/2 inches high with a 42-inch diameter. They weighed between 270 and 300 pounds. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Second stage of Thor-Able rocket being set in place prior to launching TIROS I. In: "Weather Analysis from Satellite Observations, " U.S. Navy Research Facility, December 1960. Figure 1.2. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Launch of TIROS I by a Thor-Able rocket. This was the first meteorological satellite launched into orbit. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Delta II rocket.

The U.S. Air Force successfully launched an Atlas 2AS rocket Dec. 5 at 9:47 p.m. EST. The payload it lofted into space is a satellite designed, built and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. (Courtesy photo).

A Delta II rocket was successfully launched Nov. 21. The rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-2 here carrying NASA's Earth Observing 1 satellite and two others (P.; photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Wagers)..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Rocket
 

"Rocket engine" by Terry Eaton
Commentary: "Rocket on display at Kennedy Space Center. Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A."
"Timerocket" by Marcel Hol
Commentary: "A toy rocket displaying the time."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Rocket".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Alarm; alert; balefire; beam; bonfire; flare; guidepost; heliograph; lamp; lantern; lighthouse; lodestar; pharos; radar; rocket; rocket; sign; signal fire; smoke signal; beacon; warning signal; watchtower.Bomb; explode; explosion; atom bomb; bombshell; charge; device; explosive; grenade; hydrogen bomb; mine; missile; nuclear bomb; projectile; rocket; shell; ticker; torpedo; submarine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Rocket

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Paine

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rocket

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Ukrainian-made rocket "Zenit" is used in the "Sea Launch" project. (references)

As this would allow for more than three satellites to be launched with the use of one rocket, individual costs would be substantially reduced and could thus favor smaller players such as South Africa. (references)

Already, a rocket capable of carrying a play load of up to 11 is being developed for commercial introduction by 2004. Industry sources believe that this will strengthen Arianespaces lead, since the rocket will also be capable of delivering smaller "piggybacked" satellites directly into their exact optimum orbits. (references)

Economic History

Equatorial Guinea

It has mostly small arms, rocket launched grenades, and mortars. (references)

Cambodia

Phnom Penh and other cities were subjected to daily rocket attacks causing thousands of civilian casualties. (references)

Pakistan

In November 1999, the Embassy and the American Center were the targets of rocket attacks that wounded one local national security guard. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

On February 16, the soldier was killed by a rocket fired by Hizbollah while on IDF patrol in the area. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

Opposition forces continued sporadic rocket attacks against Kabul and bombarded civilians indiscriminately. (references)

Central African Republic

Following the coup attempt, security forces targeted members of the Yakoma ethnic group for killings and abuse and used rocket launchers indiscriminately in civilian neighborhoods. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

The exports are subject to certain conditions, such as registration with the Export Promotion Bureau, and permission from government departments: cotton, rice, metals, arms, ammunition and explosives, complete rocket and unmanned air vehicle systems, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones and gold jewelry, poppy seeds, urea, pet dogs and cats, and wild boars, including meat and hides. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Rocket

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Julie Andrews

Used to have to go into either the subway or I used to have to go out in our garden with a pair of binoculars. Because I could tell the difference between the hum of a rocket and a real airplane.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Rocket

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Even now, a rocket moves toward Mars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rocket

"Rocket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Rocket" is used about 615 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.84%61410,509
Lexical Verb (base form)0.16%1339,140
                    Total100.00%615N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Rocket

CountryName
South Korea

Rocket Electric Co.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Rocket

Expressions using "rocket": air augmented rocket airborne rocket booster rocket carrier rocket Cogreve rocket Congreve rocket distress rocket ducted rocket Dyer's rocket free flight rocket free rocket garden rocket guided rocket illumination rocket incendiary rocket launch a rocket Life rocket London rocket multiple rocket launcher multistage rocket nuclear rocket orbital rocket prairie rocket rain rocket research rocket rocket attack rocket base rocket bomb rocket cress rocket engine rocket engineer rocket firing rocket flare rocket fuel rocket jet rocket larkspur rocket launcher rocket launching rocket launching site rocket plane rocket projector rocket propellant rocket propellent rocket propulsion rocket range rocket salad rocket scientist rocket stage sea rocket signal rocket signaling rocket solid fueled rocket sounding rocket space rocket surface to surface rocket sweet rocket takeoff rocket test rocket wall rocket water rocket white rocket yellow rocket. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rocket": rocket-assisted, rocket-assisted take-off, rocket-car, rocket-fire, rocket-guidance, rocket-launcher, rocket-launchers, rocket-like, rocket-load, rocket-plane, rocket-powered, rocket-proof, rocket-propelled, rocket-range, rocket-shaped, rocket-sled, rocket-sonde.

Ending with "rocket": rock-rock-rock-rock-rocket.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rocket

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rocket

2,368

rice rocket

108

model rocket

1,370

grenade propelled rocket

108

houston rocket

1,094

balloon rocket

108

joe rocket

774

rocket launcher

107

bottle rocket

722

joe rocket jacket

102

rocket power

461

estes model rocket

92

toy rocket

415

rocket cash

88

crotch rocket

385

rocket engine

86

estes rocket

330

lyrics rocket summer

85

pocket rocket

306

rocket from the crypt

84

rocket dog shoes

303

water bottle rocket

80

guy rocket

289

rocket racer

74

rocket dog

271

katyusha rocket

68

johnny rocket

234

history of rocket

63

water rocket

199

kelowna rocket

62

rocket man

170

space rocket

60

team rocket

148

build rocket

59

rocket summer

128

rocket science

59

love rocket

126

pop bottle rocket

56

rocket picture

111

rocket power.com

55
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Rocket

Language Translations for "rocket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

raketë (battledore, missile, projectile, racket, racquet), surup, manushaqe nate, dajak (club, cudgel, drubbing, rod, thrashing, walloping, whopping). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قذيفة (bomb, grenade, missile, projectile, projection, shell), ‏ترتفع الأسعار بصورة جنونية, ‏سهم ناري (skyrocket), ‏صاروخ (missile, projectile, skyrocket), ‏إنطلق بسرعة (breeze, clip, fleet, fly, lick, prick, scat, scoot, scorch, scud, steam, tear away), ‏إشتم (badmouth, bitch up, curse, jump, malign, offend, revile, scent, smell, swear, talk dirty, tick), ‏إشتهر (become famous, become known, catch on, establish, rise), ‏أطلق صاروخ. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стрелвам се нагоре, стрелвам се напред, скастряне (letdown, put down, set down, trimming, wigging), реактивен (reactive), ракетен двигател (rocket propulsion), ракетен, ракета (projectile, racket, racquet, skyrocket), вечерница (hesperus), обстрелвам с ракети. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

火箭 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

raketa do vesmíru, raketa (racket, racquet), vyletìt do výše. (various references)

   

Danish

  

raket. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

raket (hedge mustard), vuurpijl (firework, flare). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

raketo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فشفشه (Squib), پرتابه (Missile, Projectile, Shot), موشک واررفتن , موشک (Missile, Projectile), راکت (Racket), بطورعمودی اززمین بلندشدن , باسرعت ازجای جستن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

raketti (missile), sinappikaali (hedge mustard, US garden rocket). (various references)

   

French

  

fusée, roquette. (various references)

   

German

  

Rakete (missile, skyrocket). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρόκα (distaff), ρουκέτα, πύραυλος (missile). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעלות במהירות, להרקיע שחקים (skyrocket), זקוקית, בן חרדל, טיל (missile, projectile), רקטה. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rakéta (cracker, missile, squib). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

roket, cerawat. (various references)

   

Irish

  

roicéad. (various references)

   

Italian

  

razzo (missile, skyrocket, squib). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

烽火 (beacon, signal fire), 煙火 (beacon), ロイター通信 (locate, location, locator, locket, log, log book, log cabin, logarithm, logfile, login, logoff, logon, logout, loyal, loyalty, Reuters, rockabilly, rocket launcher, royal, royal box, royal jelly, royalty), ロケット弾 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ロケットだん, ロケット (locket), のろし (beacon, signal fire, skyrocket), ほうか (arson, beacon, fire, gunfire, Japanese money, law department or law school, legal currency, loud singing, one's country, set fire to, signal fire), えんか (beacon, chloride, enka, modern Japanese ballad, related family, smoke and mist, swallowing, troubadour, value of the yen, view, yen currency). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

로켓트. (various references)

   

Manx

  

roggadey, roggad (sky rocket), irree seose jeeragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocketray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

foguete (firework), rojão (squib). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rachetã (battledore, missile, racket, snow shoe), zbura cu rachetã, micşunea, lansa rachete sau fuzee asupra, da drumul unei rachete. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ракета (missile). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

reaktivna raketa, raketa (missile). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cohete (missile, skyrocket). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

raket (missile, skyrocket). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็ว (hike, zoom up), พืชชนิดหนึ่ง (spurge), พลุ, พุ่งไปอย่างรวดเร็ว (fly), ส่งจรวด, จรวด. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

roket ile göndermek, roket atmak, roket (projectile), roka, papara, havai fişek (firework, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, roman candle, skyrocket, sparkler), füze fırlatmak, füze (missile), azar (earful, going-over, jaw, lashing, lecture, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, scolding, slating, talking to, telling off, tongue-lashing, trimming). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

raketa (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

реактивний снаряд (missile), ракетний двигун, ракета, випускати ракету, злітати (levitate, soar). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phản lực, pháo thăng thiên tên lửa, pháo sáng (sky marker), pháo hoa (bengal light). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

roced. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rocket

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

eruca. (various references)

Italian900-Modern

rocchetto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Rocket

LanguageDateSourceExodus Chapter 29, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai labwn taV stolaV enduseiV aarwn ton adelfon sou kai ton citwna ton podhrh kai thn epwmida kai to logeion kai sunayeiV autw to logeion proV thn epwmida
Latin405VulgateIndues Aaron vestimentis suis id est linea et tunica et superumerali et rationali quod constringes balteo
Middle English1395WyclifThow shalt clothe Aaron with his clothes, that is to seie, with rocket, and coote, and coope, and breest broche, that thow shalt streyne with a girdel.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd take the garmentes, and put apon Aaron: the strayte cote, and the tunycle of the Ephod, and the Ephod ad the brestlappe: and gerth the to him with the brodered girdel of the Ephod.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron, the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-plate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Basic English1964OgdenTake the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Rocket

LanguageExodus Chapter 29, Verse 5
CebuanoUg kuhaon mo ang mga bisti, ug isul-ob mo kang Aaron ang sinina nga hataas, ug ang kupo sa ephod, ug ang ephod, ug ang tabon sa dughan, ug baksan mo siya sa maayong pagkahabol nga bakus sa ephod.
CroatianZatim uzmi odijelo i obuci Arona u košulju; stavi na nj ogrtaè opleæka, opleæak i naprsnik i opaši ga tkanicom opleæka.
DanishTag så Klæderne og ifør Aron Kjortelen, Efodkåben, Efoden og Brystskjoldet og bind Efoden fast på ham med Bæltet.
DutchDaarna zult gij de klederen nemen, en Aaron den rok, en den mantel des efods, en den efod, en den borstlap aandoen; en gij zult hem omgorden met den kunstelijken riem des efods.
FinnishJa ota vaatteet ja pue Aaronin ylle ihokas ja kasukan viitta ja kasukka ja rintakilpi; ja sido hänen ympärilleen kasukan vyö.
FrenchTu prendras les vêtements; tu revêtiras Aaron de la tunique, de la robe de l`éphod, de l`éphod et du pectoral, et tu mettras sur lui la ceinture de l`éphod.
Germanund die Kleider nehmen und Aaron anziehen den engen Rock und den Purpurrock und den Leibrock und das Schild zu dem Leibrock, und sollst ihn gürten mit dem Gurt des Leibrocks
Haitian CreoleApre sa, w'a pran rad yo, w'a biye Arawon. W'a mete chemiz la, rad la, jile a ak plastwon an sou li. W'a mare sentiwon an nan ren li.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKenakanlah pakaian imam pada Harun: kemeja, efod, jubah yang menutupi efod, tutup dada dan ikat pinggang.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKemudian dari pada itu hendaklah kauambil akan pakaian itu, kenakanlah kepada Harun baju dalam dan selimut efod dan efod dan perhiasan dada itu dan berpakaikanlah dia dengan sandang efod, yang perbuatan kepandaian itu;
ItalianPrenderai le vesti e rivestirai Aronne della tunica, del manto dell'efod, dell'efod e del pettorale; lo cingerai con la cintura dell'efod;
MaoriNa ka mau koe ki nga kakahu, a ka whakakakahu i a Arona ki te koti, ki te koroka o te epora, ki te epora, ki te kouma, ka whitiki hoki i a ia ki te whitiki whakairo o te epora:
NorwegianOg du skal ta klærne og klæ Aron i underkjortelen og overkjortelen som hører til livkjortelen, og livkjortelen og brystduken og binde livkjortelens belte om ham
PortugueseDepois tomarás as vestes, e vestirás a Arão da túnica e do manto do éfode, e do éfode mesmo, e do peitoral, e lhe cingirás o éfode com o seu cinto de obra esmerada;   
RumanianSq iei vewmintele; sq kmbraci pe Aaron cu tunica, cu mantia efodului, cu efodul wi cu pieptarul, wi sq -l kncingi cu brkul efodului.
SwedishOch du skall taga kläderna och sätta på Aron livklädnaden och efodkåpan och själva efoden och bröstskölden; och du skall fästa ihop alltsammans på honom med efodens skärp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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