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Rocket vs Salamander - What's the difference?

rocket | salamander |

As nouns the difference between rocket and salamander

is that rocket is a rocket engine or rocket can be the leaf vegetable eruca sativa'' or ''eruca vesicaria while salamander is salamander.

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)
  • 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

    salamander

    English

    (wikipedia salamander)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, resembling a lizard or a newt.
  • * 1672 , (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica)'', 1852, Simon Wilkin (editor), ''The Works of Sir Thomas Browne , Volume 1, page 292,
    • and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Douglas Larson , title=Runaway Devils Lake , volume=100, issue=1, page=46 , magazine= citation , passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
  • (mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire, hence the elemental being of fire.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XI
    • “Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander . He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
  • * 1849 , John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions , Volume 3, page 372
    • "There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander' lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a ' salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."
  • (cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
  • * 1977 , Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery), Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0187-6, page 41
    • The salamander , a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.
  • (cooking) A small broiler, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
    • The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
  • *
  • The (pouched gopher), , of the southern United States.
  • (UK, obsolete) A large poker.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (metallurgy) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

    • Hyponyms

    * (amphibian) siredon

    Derived terms

    * (cave salamander) * fire salamander * giant salamander * mole salamander * tiger salamander

    Related terms

    * salamandrian * salamandrid * salamandriform * salamandrine * salamandroid * salamandrous (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use a (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
  • * 19th century (quoted 1977) , recipe in Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery , Rigby, ISBN 978-0-7270-0187-0, page 41:
    • When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.
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