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Spaceship vs Racket - What's the difference?

spaceship | racket |

As nouns the difference between spaceship and racket

is that spaceship is a vehicle that flies through space while racket is a racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.

As a verb racket is

to strike with, or as if with, a racket.

spaceship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vehicle that flies through space.
  • (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
  • * 2002 , Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance (page 433)
    • We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
  • * 2010 , Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata (page 126)
    • Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move
  • (computing, programming) The operator <=> in the Perl programming language, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
  • * 2012 , Randal Schwartz, ?Brian Foy, ?Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl (page 142)
    • If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order

    Synonyms

    * (vehicle) spacecraft

    See also

    * flying saucer * UFO

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    racket

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (sporting implement) racquet

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raket

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • (label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
    • Synonyms
    * (implement) bat, paddle, racquet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
  • * Hewyt
    • Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud noise.
    • Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
    With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
    What's all this racket ?
  • A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
    • They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
  • (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
    • Synonyms
    * (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindle
    Derived terms
    * racketeer, racketeering

    Anagrams

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