Atlas vs rocket

Atlas

noun
  • A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. 

name
  • The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. 

  • A subgroup of the Berber languages. 

  • A surname. 

  • A moon of Saturn. 

  • A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. 

  • The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis. 

  • A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. 

rocket

noun
  • A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine. 

  • A rocket engine. 

  • A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine. 

  • An ace (the playing card). 

  • A stupid or crazy person. 

  • Something that shoots high in the air. 

  • A very physically attractive woman. 

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

  • A blunt lance head used in jousting. 

  • A rocket propelled firework; a skyrocket. 

  • Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis). 

  • The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria. 

verb
  • To carry something in a rocket. 

  • To accelerate swiftly and powerfully. 

  • To rise or soar rapidly. 

  • To fly vertically. 

  • To attack something with rockets. 

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