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Hocket vs Rocket - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between hocket and rocket

is that hocket is in medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests while rocket is an ace (the playing card).

As nouns the difference between hocket and rocket

is that hocket is hiccup while rocket is a rocket engine.

As a verb rocket is

to accelerate swiftly and powerfully.

hocket

English

(Hocket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • hiccup
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
  • (music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."

    Derived terms

    * hocketing * hockettor

    References

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    rocket

    English

    (wikipedia rocket)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rocchetta, from (etyl) . More at .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rocket engine.
  • (military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
  • A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
  • A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
  • (slang) An ace (the playing card).
  • An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
  • * 1980 , David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of , Dutton, ISBN 9780525206637, page 203,
  • While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket ” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. Solborg flew to Lisbon and then on to Washington to face out his problem with Donovan.
  • A blunt lance head used in jousting.
  • Derived terms
    * chemical rocket * Congreve rocket * hybrid rocket * liquid rocket * nuclear rocket * rocket belt * rocket car * rocketeer * rocket launcher * rocket plane * rocketry * rocket science * rocket ship * rocket stage * skyrocket * snot rocket * solid rocket * space rocket * thermal rocket * water rocket
    See also
    * ICBM
    References
    * Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots'' 2nd edn., p. ,72, s.v. ''ruk- . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0-618-08250-6. * Weisenberg, Michael (2000). The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523. *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
  • To fly vertically
  • To rise or soar rapidly
  • To carry something in a rocket
  • To attack something with rockets
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) roquette, (etyl) ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, (etyl) eruca. Cognate to (arugula).

    Noun

    (-)
  • The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa'' or ''Eruca vesicaria .
  • rocket larkspur
  • Synonyms
    * (US) arugula * rocket salad