Rocket vs Cartridge - What's the difference?
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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,
A blunt lance head used in jousting.
To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
To fly vertically
To rise or soar rapidly
To carry something in a rocket
To attack something with rockets
The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa'' or ''Eruca vesicaria .
rocket larkspur
(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition ().
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, chapter=7 (by extension) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
(computing) A vessel which contains the ink () for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
(computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data ().
* 1983 , Helpline'' (in ''Sinclair User issue 21)
(computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
* 1981 , Communication Outlook (volume 3)
* 2002 , Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 (page 180)
(obsolete) A small paper package, e.g. in an old book about making printer's type: After all the type has been cast: "The Boy will paper up each sort in a cartridge by itself" .
As nouns the difference between rocket and cartridge
is that rocket is a rocket engine or rocket can be the leaf vegetable eruca sativa'' or ''eruca vesicaria while cartridge is (firearms) the package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition ().As a verb rocket
is to accelerate swiftly and powerfully.rocket
English
(wikipedia rocket)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rocchetta, from (etyl) . More at .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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 rocketSee also
* ICBMReferences
* 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)Etymology 2
(etyl) roquette, (etyl) ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, (etyl) eruca. Cognate to (arugula).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (US) arugula * rocket saladcartridge
English
(wikipedia cartridge)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}
- The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.
- We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack.
- Nintendo made sure to loudly trumpet all of the advantages of the cartridge format, particularly the greatly reduced loading times and the sturdiness of the cartridges
