| 单词 | rocketeer |
| 释义 | rockeˈteer
[f. rocket n.3 + -eer1.]
1. A discharger of rockets.
1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 837 With this force there were..forty rocketeers, and an officer with a few artillerymen. 1945F. H. M. Lloyd Hurricane i. 12 Fighter, night-fighter, fighter-bomber, tank-buster, ‘rocketeer’, ship-fighter, merchant-ship protector..in thirty different forms and on thirty-seven different fronts, the Hurricane went into action. 1974D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-Read ix. 70 The flash..won't affect the man firing the rocket-launcher... I want every rocketeer to fire his two rounds.
2. One who experiments or works with rockets; a rocket expert or enthusiast.
1929Review of Reviews Sept. 91 (heading) The new race of rocketeers. 1935Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. Oct. 13 Rocketeer, one who experiments with rockets. 1953J. N. Leonard Flight into Space 25 One philosophical rocketeer pointed to the fact that man's body stands mid⁓way in size between the atoms it contains and the great galaxies that float beyond the stars. 1957P. Moore Sci. & Fiction 18 Lucian's seamen are the logical ancestors of the rocketeers and space-cadets of to-day. 1960New Statesman 2 Jan. 7/3 While the rocketeers burst into space, the advances that touched the man in the street were mostly of the kind of wide-screen movies and stereophonic records. 1971Nature 23 Apr. 494/2 The group of astronomers at the University of Leicester, who have been among the most successful X-ray rocketeers, are still producing valuable data. 1972Sci. Amer. Dec. 118/3 Model rocketeers fly light reflyable rockets they make themselves or from kits. |
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