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rocket | zoom |

As nouns the difference between rocket and zoom

is that rocket is a rocket engine or rocket can be the leaf vegetable eruca sativa'' or ''eruca vesicaria while zoom is zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens.

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

    zoom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a humming noise from something moving very fast
  • a quick ascent
  • a big increase
  • an augmentation of a view as with a lens

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to move fast with a humming noise
  • to fly an airplane straight up
  • to move rapidly
  • to go up sharply
    • prices zoomed
  • to change the focal length of a zoom lens
  • (used with in]] or [[zoom out, out ) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it

    • Derived terms

    * zoom in * zoom lens * zoom out * zoomy

    Descendants

    * Dutch: (l) * German: (l)

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