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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121. These included bombs on London railway lines and a daring rocket attack on the headquarters of MI6 by the Thames.
122. But the result confirmed that building society provisions will rocket this year to cover bad and doubtful home loans.
123. These included shooting it into space on board a rocket so that its deadly payload would disappear into infinity.
124. One group of 3 was pressed into the same small rocket crater where they had sought shelter.
125. A rocket race to Mars Try this game from Chatterbox 2 with your class.
126. A particularly simple form of rocket motor uses solid propellant.
127. Meanwhile, every eighteen-wheeler in Colorado is blowing by me like a rocket, throwing sheets of mud over my windshield.
128. Ambushes, rocket attacks and troop and weapons movements were also reported.
129. I lay under my cot and prayed that our hooch would not take a direct hit with a rocket.
130. This had never been done before with a rocket engine.
131. Make as many photocopies as you need and divide the class into four rocket teams.
132. The real danger lies in unburnt rocket fuel that falls with the metal.
133. Progress in rocket performance closely followed establishment of these organizations.
134. Flight whirring; can rocket upwards with remarkable acceleration when startled, though often prefer to run.
135. As the rocket staged the shield was finally ripped away from the rocket, taking the solar panel with it.
136. The engines of the rocket do not apply a force directly to his body as he is not connected directly to them.
137. More than 30 people were reported killed and hundreds injured in Kabul on Aug. 13 following rocket attacks by mujaheddin forces.
138. For propulsion, it relies on the aerospike, a linear rocket engine.
139. Between flotation in 1980 and sales peak in 1988, his company, Amstrad, saw pre-tax profits rocket to £160.4 million.
140. Spray the fountain, then fire a rocket at the Bowlarama.
141. Finding a way out of this mess does not require rocket science.
142. Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies.
142. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
143. Sergeyev, a general and former rocket force commander, opposed a campaign by Gen.
144. The result is a devastating detonation that completely destroys the rocket.
145. A letter signed by former cosmonauts and rocket scientists and 16,000 Muscovites has been handed to Putin.
146. The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
147. However, the rocket was not allowed to leave the launch pad until full thrust was developed by each engine.
148. But the long-term effect is that the economy at home will take off like a rocket in mid-1993.
149. Wichman recently designed the passenger compartment for a rocket ship being developed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.
150. The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26.
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.