I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a missile/rocket/mortar attack
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There were 15 dead and 20 wounded in a missile attack on the capital.
a price shoots up/soars/rockets (= increases quickly by a large amount )
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The price of oil soared in the 1970s.
fire bullets/missiles/rockets etc
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Guerrillas fired five rockets at the capital yesterday, killing 23 people.
rocket science
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Designing a website may be a lot of work but it’s not rocket science.
rocket scientist
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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
rocket/wind/nuclear/jet propulsion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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In a chemical rocket these molecules are the products of a chemical reaction.
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These factors force chemical rockets to deliver specific impulses well below five hundred seconds.
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So far environmental lobbies have been extremely reluctant to allow radioactive materials to be flown in a chemical rocket .
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This nuclear thermal rocket can perform as well as a hydrogen-oxygen chemical rocket if the exhaust temperature is the same.
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A high-performance chemical rocket has over 350 seconds specific impulse.
solid
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Another disadvantage of solid rockets is that once they have been ignited they can not be stopped.
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Once this has been done the whole shuttle assembly is supported on the solid rocket boosters.
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The third stage took over after two solid rockets had fired to settle the propellant in its tanks.
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The control signals for the solid rocket boosters are also routed through these umbilicals.
■ NOUN
attack
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Ambushes, rocket attacks and troop and weapons movements were also reported.
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I felt much more confident in myself during a firefight as compared to being mortared or receiving a rocket attack .
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These included bombs on London railway lines and a daring rocket attack on the headquarters of MI6 by the Thames.
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As he explained it to me, his fort came equipped with metal shields to protect it from rocket attacks .
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A mujaheddin rocket attack on Kabul on Feb. 29 killed at least 21 people.
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Mortar and rocket attacks varied in frequency, but they were always a threat.
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The United States had hopes of at least twenty-five minutes' warning of a nuclear rocket attack .
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No civil aircraft now stayed in Phnom Penh overnight, since Khmer Rouge rocket attacks on the airport were frequent.
booster
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A Saturn V booster rocket lifted a three-man crew and their equipment from the surface of Earth.
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At these times, any given booster rocket can launch the heaviest possible payloads to Mars.
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However, it has kept her apprised of the booster rocket issue for more than a week.
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He swings golf clubs created from a material used to guide the booster rockets for orbiting space ships.
engine
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This had never been done before with a rocket engine .
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It was placed in an eccentric, high-inclination orbit around Venus by the firing of a small rocket engine .
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A comparison of different kinds of rocket engines with each other requires some measure of their performance.
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For propulsion, it relies on the aerospike, a linear rocket engine .
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By 1909 he was already aware of the superior potential of liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen rocket engines .
fire
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On the first day they shell a village from long range with artillery and rocket fire .
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I wanted to tell her: It was not all about rocket fires and body bags.
fuel
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The real danger lies in unburnt rocket fuel that falls with the metal.
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Polar ice also would provide hydrogen for rocket fuel and for industrial processes.
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Antimatter, it turns out, is real, nonfiction stuff, but too rare to be used directly as rocket fuel .
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On Earth, nitrogen is an important ingredient of both storable rocket fuels and oxidizers.
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He says the residue is rocket fuel , but investigators say it actually is a glue used to bind airplane seats.
launcher
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Over 7,000 assault rifles, 500 rocket launchers and several tonnes of explosives have been recovered.
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Quake involves killing opponents with a variety of implements including axes, nail guns and rocket launchers .
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We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
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When he came back with all three signatures on a piece of paper we would send the first load of rocket launchers .
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The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
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Away from the street self-taught craftsmen copy working anti-aircraft guns, hand grenades and rocket launchers .
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Police shudder at the prospect of facing a population which has anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers at its disposal.
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Technicals - trucks carrying cannon, anti-aircraft missiles and rocket launchers , cruise the city centre.
motor
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Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors .
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Last summer, Thiokol reported singeing of O-ring seals located in the nozzles of rocket motors after consecutive launches.
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A particularly simple form of rocket motor uses solid propellant.
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The plant makes and tests rocket motors , but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.
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After one second, controls in the nozzle of the rocket motor start steering the missile on to the proper trajectory.
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The sound of the rocket motors died away.
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A rocket motor failed and the spacecraft did not reach its intended orbit.
propulsion
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Remember that the principle of rocket propulsion simply requires high-speed molecules to push against the rocket.
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This is the secret of rocket propulsion .
science
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Finding a way out of this mess does not require rocket science .
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Timing can be everything, even in rocket science .
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After all, this really is rocket science .
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Leading teams through a one-day goal-setting workshop does not involve rocket science .
scientist
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A letter signed by former cosmonauts and rocket scientists and 16,000 Muscovites has been handed to Putin.
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They wheeled in the rocket scientists , who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
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Well, Andrew Dequasie was a rocket scientist of a sort.
space
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Display of early aircraft and space rockets .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it doesn't take a rocket scientist (to do sth)
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It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to realize that the chain of events was no coincidence.
sth is not rocket science
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Heavy artillery and rocket attacks rained down on the camp.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finding a way out of this mess does not require rocket science.
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It had two lids which you closed once you were in, and instead of bullets, it fired rockets.
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Ready, Set, Go! went through version 2 like a rocket and emerged late last year as version 3.
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That rocket itself also appears to have strayed off course.
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The result is a devastating detonation that completely destroys the rocket .
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This nuclear thermal rocket can perform as well as a hydrogen-oxygen chemical rocket if the exhaust temperature is the same.
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Wichman recently designed the passenger compartment for a rocket ship being developed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gold prices rocketed to their highest level since 1983.
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Interest rates have rocketed as credit has become scarce.
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Why has the dollar rocketed against the yen in particular?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressure rocketing.
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Biotech company stocks rocketed on speculation drugs they are developing could turn into blockbusters.
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Pearce's request for new terms could have been sparked by transfer fees and wages rocketing in the last 12 months.
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Peschisllibo ravaged Derby's defence in an exhilarating first half when Birmingham rocketed into a three goal lead.
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Profits for 1991-92 have jumped £2m to £13.6m and its pubs total has rocketed from 376 to 532.
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The rave band, which rocketed to No.8 with Fire, believes the Beeb show is death to dance.
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Today, many corporate astronauts are rocketing into market space as if they were launched from Cape Canaveral with no Houston base.
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You usually prefer rocketing and rolling to swiveling.