Rocket
A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
Damewort.
Rocket larkspur. See below.
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
A blunt lance head used in the joust.
To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
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Rocket Quotations
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William Wordsworth
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride
The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
Al Franken
The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
Alan Shepard
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
Cindy Crawford
When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.
Michael P. Anderson
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz
Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
Adam Savage
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.
David R. Brower
I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.
Johnny Knoxville
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
Wilson Greatbatch
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
Byron Dorgan
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Gregory Harrison
There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
Ellen Ochoa
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
Eric Allin Cornell
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
Lee De Forest
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.
James Lee Burke
Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!
Jon Heder
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
Johnny Ramone
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
Steven Adler
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
Hermann Oberth
It's not rocket science. It's social science.
Clement Mok
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Rocket Translations
rocket in Dutch is vuurpijl, raket
rocket in German is Rakete
rocket in Italian is razzo
rocket in Portuguese is foguete
rocket in Spanish is cohete
rocket in Swedish is raket
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