Rocket vs Spaceships - 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
As nouns the difference between rocket and spaceships
is that rocket is a rocket engine or rocket can be the leaf vegetable eruca sativa'' or ''eruca vesicaria while spaceships is .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. *