Synonym: Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, arugula, garden rocket, projectile, rocket engine, rocket salad, roquette, skyrocket. Similar words: cocked, hockey, bucket, jacket, process, grocery, proceed, dock. Meaning: ['rɑkɪt /'rɒk-] n. 1. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine 2. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion 3. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender 4. propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon 5. sends a firework display high into the sky. v. 1. shoot up abruptly, like a rocket 2. propel with a rocket.
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91. I am reminded of one young man working with us who was killed during a daytime rocket attack.
92. Heavy artillery and rocket attacks rained down on the camp.
93. Over 7,000 assault rifles, 500 rocket launchers and several tonnes of explosives have been recovered.
94. Last summer, Thiokol reported singeing of O-ring seals located in the nozzles of rocket motors after consecutive launches.
95. But from August the test will be more stringent and the price will rocket to £1,500.
96. Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors.
97. The virtue of financial transaction was its power to rocket above other failures to communicate.
98. Eventually in 1950, the Army became convinced that Soviet rocket research was taking place and mobilized Von Braun.
99. No civil aircraft now stayed in Phnom Penh overnight, since Khmer Rouge rocket attacks on the airport were frequent.
100. The plant makes and tests rocket motors, but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.
101. Well, Andrew Dequasie was a rocket scientist of a sort.
102. Details of such items as mealie bags, biscuit boxes, ammo boxes and rocket troughs will be welcomed by modellers.
103. China is planning to launch a space rocket later this month.
104. On screen, a glowing rocket climbs into the darkened sky.
105. Leading teams through a one-day goal-setting workshop does not involve rocket science.
106. Once this has been done the whole shuttle assembly is supported on the solid rocket boosters.
107. This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth.
108. The rocket had a minor problem during its first launch last October.
109. The first option is to extract water from subsurface permafrost and use that water directly in a nuclear or solar steam rocket.
110. A high-performance chemical rocket has over 350 seconds specific impulse.
111. The broomstick dipped its twiggy end and soared upward like a rocket.
112. Since its second first flight from North Weald last September Harry has used his red rocket for both business and pleasure.
112. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
113. Read in studio Still to come on Central News, going like a rocket.
114. A given rocket booster could actually land more mass on these bodies than it could land on the Moon!
115. I wanted to tell her: It was not all about rocket fires and body bags.
116. And when online retailing finally ignites, say online analysts, it will go off like a rocket.
117. On Earth, nitrogen is an important ingredient of both storable rocket fuels and oxidizers.
118. It was a rocket, gone the instant the sound reached our ears.
119. The rocket was exposed to the vagaries of the weather, and the launch pad was blocked for long periods of time.
120. The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.
More similar words: cocked, hockey, bucket, jacket, process, grocery, proceed, dock, sock, proclaim, procedure, block, shock, knock, stock, processor, processing, knock out, knock off, basket, knock down, market, take to, blanket, basketball, take time, take turns, take the road, marketing, supermarket.