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rocket

Main Entry:
rocket [rok-it]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: projectile
Synonyms: ICBM, booster, firework, guided missile, intercontinental ballistic missile, missile, spacecraft, spaceship, torpedo, weapon
Notes: the term for a combustible or explosive or pyrotechnic ('pertaining to fire art') projectile was 'rocket' until fireworks was used in 1777 to describe these in connection with the first Fourth of July celebration. 'Rockets' are still the most popular form of firework. Rockets are lifted by recoil from the jet of fire created by the burning ingredients - and they are designed for maximum combustion and maximum thrust. Fireworks originated in ancient China. The word firecracker refers to those that make loud sounds and sparklers are those that send off a shower of sparks.
a missile is a whole vehicle ready for launching; a rocket is a type of engine that powers a missile
Main Entry: ammunition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: projectiles for weaponry
Synonyms: ammo, armament, ball, bomb, buckshot, bullet, cannonball, cartridge, charge, chemical, confetti, explosive, fuse, grenade, gunpowder, iron rations, materiel, missile, munition, napalm, powder, rocket, round, shell, shot, shrapnel, torpedo
Main Entry: beacon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: light used as signal, guide
Synonyms: alarm, alert, balefire, beam, bonfire, flare, guidepost, heliograph, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, lodestar, pharos, radar, rocket, sign, signal fire, smoke signal, warning signal, watchtower
Main Entry: bomb
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exploding weapon
Synonyms: Molotov cocktail, atom bomb, bombshell, charge, device, explosive, grenade, hydrogen bomb, mine, missile, nuclear bomb, projectile, rocket, shell, ticker, torpedo
Main Entry: bullet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small missile
Synonyms: ammo, ammunition, ball, bolt, cap, cartridge, dose, lead, love letter, pellet, projectile, rocket, round, shot, slug, trajectile
Main Entry: hurry
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: act, move speedily
Synonyms: accelerate, barrel, be quick, beeline, bestir, breeze, bullet, burst, bustle, dash, dig in, drive, expedite, fleet, flit, fly, get a move on, go like lightning, goad, haste, hasten, hurry up, hustle, jog, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, make time, make tracks, nip, push, quicken, race, rip, rocket, roll, run, rush, sally, scoot, scurry, shake a leg, smoke, speed, speed up, spur, step on gas, step on it, turn on steam, urge, whirl, whish, whisk, whiz, zip
Antonyms: dally, dawdle, delay, procrastinate, rest, slow, stall, wait
Main Entry: leap
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: jump, jump over; increase
Synonyms: advance, arise, ascend, bounce, bound, caper, cavort, clear, escalate, frisk, hop, hurdle, lop, mount, rise, rocket, saltate, skip, soar, spring, surge, vault
Main Entry: missile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: projectile weapon
Synonyms: MX, ammunition, arrow, bat, bird*, bolt, bomb, bullet, cartridge, dart, pellet, projectile, rocket, shot, stealth, trajectile
Notes: a missile is a whole vehicle ready for launching; a rocket is a type of engine that powers a missile
Main Entry: rise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get up; ascend
Synonyms: arise, arouse, aspire, awake, be erect, be located, be situated, blast off, bob up, climb, come up, get out of bed, get steeper, get to one's feet, go uphill, grow, have foundation, levitate, lift, mount, move up, pile out, push up, reach up, rise and shine, rise up, rocket, roll out, rouse, scale, sit up, slope upwards, soar, sprout, stand up, straighten up, surface, surge, surmount, sweep upward, tower, turn out, up*, upspring
Notes: to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up'
Antonyms: descend, lower
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