Missile vs. Rocket

Missilenoun

Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.

Missilenoun

(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.

Missileadjective

Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or engine{2}, so as to strike an object at a distance.

Missilenoun

A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

Missilenoun

A rocket-propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive materials to a target.

Missilenoun

rocket carrying passengers or instruments or a warhead

Missilenoun

a weapon that is thrown or projected

Missile

In military terminology, a missile, also known as a guided missile or guided rocket, is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles have five system components: targeting, guidance system, flight system, engine and warhead.

Rocketnoun

A rocket engine.

Rocketnoun

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

Rocketnoun

A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.

Rocketnoun

A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket

Rocketnoun

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

Rocketnoun

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

Rocketnoun

A blunt lance head used in jousting.

Rocketnoun

(figurative) Something that shoots high in the air.

Rocketnoun

The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.

Rocketnoun

rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis)

Rocketverb

To accelerate swiftly and powerfully

Rocketverb

To fly vertically

Rocketverb

To rise or soar rapidly

Rocketverb

To carry something in a rocket

Rocketverb

To attack something with rockets

Rocketnoun

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

Rocketnoun

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.

Rocketnoun

A blunt lance head used in the joust.

Rocketnoun

any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.

Rocketverb

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Rocketnoun

any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine

Rocketnoun

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

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;

Rocketverb

propel with a rocket

Rocketnoun

a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal.

Rocketnoun

an engine that operates by the combustion of its contents, providing thrust as in a jet engine but without depending on the intake of air for combustion.

Rocketnoun

an elongated rocket-propelled missile or spacecraft

Rocketnoun

used to refer to a person or thing that moves very fast or to an action that is done with great force

Rocketnoun

a severe reprimand

Rocketnoun

an edible Mediterranean plant of the cabbage family, whose leaves are eaten in salads.

Rocketnoun

used in names of other fast-growing plants of the cabbage family, e.g. London rocket, sweet rocket.

Rocketverb

(of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly

Rocketverb

move very rapidly

Rocketverb

attack with rocket-propelled missiles

Rocket

A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin/spool') is a projectile that spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicles use to obtain thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket.