(n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
(n.) Damewort.
(n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
(v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(2) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(3) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(4) In the same way, using the anti-trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase serum, rocket immunoelectrophoresis analyses were able to show that the inducible apoenzyme is not regulated by the fnr gene product and that molybdate does not seem necessary for the synthesis or stabilisation of this enzyme.
(5) In 13 patients complement C3d was determined by rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(6) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(7) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(8) Within the last half hour Haaretz reported a home in the city was hit by a rocket and that one person is being treated for shock.
(9) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(10) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
(11) We usually started at 5am taking pictures of the Israeli air strikes and rockets launched by Palestinian militants.
(12) After a frantic period around "Black Friday" sales at the end of November, business quietened down but "took off like a rocket" from Boxing Day when Dixons took £100,000 a minute, chief executive Seb James said.
(13) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
(14) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(15) Serum volume in the blood dots was determined by calculation of dot area or by measuring albumin content in the eluted samples by means of rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(16) If the billions that have been thrown at this programme had been invested in providing teachers with decent, evidence-based training which is “on-the-job”, then standards would have sky-rocketed and we would be vying with the best education systems in the world, such as those in Finland and Singapore.
(17) The concentrations of plasma serine protease inhibitors in monocyte culture supernatants were measured by using rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(18) I can't say exactly what these are or when (they might be rolled out), but we are in a kind of race [with the Palestinian rocket firers] and we always need to update (the system) to increase the probability of a kill."
(19) Israel rejects these efforts as politically motivated, saying it acted in self-defence against Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza.
(20) The two systems tried were rocket immunoelectrophoresis, carried out after reduction of samples with dithiothreitol and using monomeric IgA as standard, and a radioimmunoassay utilising a double antibody precipitation method and polymeric IgA as standard.
Thruster
Definition:
(n.) One who thrusts or stabs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated that both groups of tongue thrusters with and without interdental lisp scored significantly more poorly than did normal children (t = 4.68, P less than .001; t = 5.00, P less than .001), respectively.
(2) The $2.5bn (£1.6bn) trundling science lab began its mission on Mars after a dramatic arrival last month in which the rover was winched to the surface from a spacecraft hovering overhead on rocket thrusters.
(3) NASA corrected the Gemini thruster problem by changing the ignition system wiring.
(4) SpaceX cancels Falcon rocket launch seconds before liftoff Read more After twin sonic booms of re-entry through skies mottled with clouds, the rocket booster’s landing legs deployed, its thruster engines fired and it landed, almost delicately, at a landing pad at Cape Canaveral.
(5) If all goes to plan, the Dragon will fire its thrusters and begin a half hour plunge that ends in splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, about 450km off the west coast of the US.
(6) We avoid other objects with help from NORAD - they track space junk, and tell us when we have to fire thrusters to avoid it.
(7) A malfunctioning orbital flight attitude thruster during the flight of Gemini VIII led to acceleration forces on astronauts Neil Armstrong (commander) and David Scott (pilot) that created the potential for derogation of oculo-vestibular and eye-hand coordination effects.
(8) The tongue-thrusting children exhibited weaker lips initially than did the non-tongue-thrusters.
(9) As the rocket descends, SpaceX will relight the engines three times for a propulsive landing with thrusters: once to adjust the point of impact, again to slow the rocket to 250 meters per second, and finally for the landing burn, during which the rocket’s legs will deploy and the rocket will slow to about two meters per second.
(10) The headlong miniaturisation of microelectronics means that it might be possible to pack the entire control system, the sensors, camera, navigation equipment, photon thrusters, transmitter and power supply onto a tiny silicon wafer, and mount it on an ultra-thin sail weighing only grams, that would respond to the pressure of light.
(11) For example, additional thrusters can be strapped on to the rocket to launch heavy payloads of around 7.5 tonnes into orbit.
(12) There were no significant differences, however, between tongue thrusters with and without interdental lisp (t = .33, P greater than .05).
(13) These findings may help explain the classical malocclusions seen in tongue-thrusters and thumb-suckers.
(14) Because a large number of tongue thrusters are only adapting to malocclusions, we do not become concerned until the tongue is interfering with mechanics.
(15) Reusable rocket engines of the sort SpaceX hopes will land safely on Tuesday could play an important part in any round-trip to Mars, and since the planet has only a very thin atmosphere – and no runways or oceans to speak of – a large spacecraft would require thrusters simply to land safely in the first place.
(16) Lifting such a heavy satellite into orbit cost the Falcon 9’s lighter flights, meaning it had less fuel for its thrusters , which slowed its descent back to Earth and reoriented it for landing.
(17) Tongue thrusters in the mixed dentition stage are not proper candidates for myofunctional therapy.
(18) But instead of using the main engine this time, they would employ the smaller thrusters used for keeping the spacecraft upright.
(19) We conclude that increasing the lip muscle strength in tongue-thrusters may have little effect on the dentition of children exhibiting tongue-thrusting.
(20) These data compared favorably with data obtained for other retarded persons not judged to be tongue thrusters; in addition, the objective results of the treatment program were substantiated via pre-post evaluations done by occupational and physical therapists.