Rocket vs. Racket

Rocket vs. Racket — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Rocket and Racket

Rocketnoun

A rocket engine.

Racketnoun

(countable) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.

Rocketnoun

(military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.

Racketnoun

(Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

Rocketnoun

A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.

Racketnoun

A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

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Rocketnoun

A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket

Racketnoun

A loud noise.

Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!What's all this racket?

Rocketnoun

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

Racketnoun

A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.

They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

Rocketnoun

An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.

Racketnoun

A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

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Rocketnoun

A blunt lance head used in jousting.

Racketnoun

Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

Rocketnoun

(figurative) Something that shoots high in the air.

Racketverb

To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

Rocketnoun

The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.

Racketverb

(intransitive) To make a clattering noise.

Rocketnoun

rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis)

Racketverb

To be dissipated; to carouse.

Rocketverb

To accelerate swiftly and powerfully

Racketnoun

a loud and disturbing noise

Rocketverb

To fly vertically

Racketnoun

an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

Rocketverb

To rise or soar rapidly

Racketnoun

the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;

modern music is just noise to me

Rocketverb

To carry something in a rocket

Racketnoun

a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games

Rocketverb

To attack something with rockets

Racketverb

celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities;

The members of the wedding party made merry all nightLet's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

Rocketnoun

any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine

Racketverb

make loud and annoying noises

Rocketnoun

a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

Racketverb

hit (a ball) with a racket

Rocketnoun

erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

Rocketnoun

propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

Rocketnoun

sends a firework display high into the sky

Rocketverb

shoot up abruptly, like a rocket;

prices skyrocketed

Rocketverb

propel with a rocket