Definition of Rocket

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Rocket

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

Damewort.

Rocket larkspur. See below.

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.

A blunt lance head used in the joust.

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

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Rocket Quotations

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William Wordsworth

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
Cindy Crawford

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
Alan Shepard

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.
David R. Brower

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.
Al Franken

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.
Lionel Blue

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
Byron Dorgan

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
Eric Allin Cornell

Rocket Translations

rocket in Dutch is vuurpijl, raket
rocket in German is Rakete
rocket in Italian is razzo
rocket in Portuguese is foguete
rocket in Spanish is cohete
rocket in Swedish is raket

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