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Definition: Skyrocket |
SkyrocketNoun1. Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon. 2. Sends a firework display high into the sky. Verb1. Shoot up abruptly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SkyrocketSynonym: rocket (v). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skyrocket."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Skyrocket (1926) Buster's Skyrocket (1926) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Skyrocket In Flight With F-86 Chase Plane. Credit: NASA. |
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Health | In addition, heavy drinking or binge drinking can lead to a rebound effect after the alcohol is purged from the body. The consequences of this rebound effect are that blood viscosity (thickness) and platelet levels skyrocket after heavy drinking, increasing the risk for ischemic stroke. (references) | |
Trade | Uae | According to a recent survey, this number is to skyrocket beyond US $ 15 billion in the next year with UAE's share exceeding US $ 5.5 billion or 30%. Major international and local banks are behind these projects advising and arranging for the major part of financing, often exceeding 75%. (references) |
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| "Skyrocket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Skyrocket" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
juniper skyrocket | 37 |
skyrocket | 14 |
junipers skyrocket | 6 |
screensaver skyrocket | 5 |
flight in skyrocket | 2 |
afternoon delight flight in skyrocket | 2 |
riley skyrocket | 2 |
f5f skyrocket | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "skyrocket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngrihem në qiell, fishekzjarr (cracker, fire works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سهم ناري (rocket), صاروخ (missile, projectile, rocket), إرتفع فجأة, إرتفع بسرعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ракета (projectile, racket, racquet, rocket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冲天火箭. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rychle stoupat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موشک هواءی , مثل موشک بهواپرتاب کردن , ازدیادسریع قیمت وغیره , بسرعت بالابردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | monter en flèche, fusée volante, flèche feu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rakete (missile, rocket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υψούμαι ταχέωσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"אמיר, ל"רקיע שחקים (rocket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | membubung (rise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | razzo (missile, rocket, squib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 狼煙 (signal fire), "ち上'花火 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うちあ'はなび, のろし (beacon, rocket, signal fire), ろうえ" (signal fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 성 꽃불. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrocketskay стремительно подниматься, сигнальная ракета (flare). (various references) poleteti uvis, poletanje uvis. (various references) cohete (missile, rocket). (various references) raket (missile, rocket). (various references) ทำให้ประสบความสำเร็จอย่างฉับพลัน, ลอยขึ้นสูงอย่างฉับพลัน, ประสบความสำเร็จอย่างรว"เร็ว. (various references) havai fişek (firework, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, rocket, roman candle, sparkler), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), birden artmak (run up, shoot up). (various references) сигнальна ракета, швидко зростати (shoot up), мчати вгору. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "skyrocket": skyrocketed, skyrocketing, skyrockets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skyrocket" (pronounced skī"rÄ'kut) |
| 4 | -Ä' k u t | pickpocket. |
| 3 | -k u t | advocate, affricate, aftermarket, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, hypermarket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-k-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: restock, rockets, stocker. | |
-3 letters: corset, coster, coyest, escort, ockers, oyster, rectos, rocket, scoter, sector, socket, stocky, stoker, storey, stroke, tokers, toyers, trocks, trokes. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cokes, cores, corks, corky, corse, coset, cosey, cotes, coyer, crest, escot, kecks, kytes, ocker, oyers, recks, recto, rocks, rocky, roset, rotes, rykes, ryots, score, stock, stoke, store, stork. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-k-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: skyrockets. | |
+2 letters: skyrocketed. | |
+3 letters: skyrocketing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 79 72 6F 63 6B 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- -.--. .-. --- -.-. -.- . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01111001 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k y r o c k e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0079 0072 006F 0063 006B 0065 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537791848169777186 |
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