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View definitions for liftoff

liftoff

noun as in rocket launch

Strongest match

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verb as in take flight

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Example Sentences

He personally designed part of the training program, which in part called for flying each crew member in his Soviet MiG-29, exposing them to the kinds of g-forces they’ll experience during liftoff and re-entry.

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Chips got faster, cheaper and more efficient, eventually achieving a kind of social liftoff—powering computers that fit in a pocket.

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Aftermath of the liftoff of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission taking four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

The liftoff should be thunderous—rattling windows and shaking loose plaster in nearby buildings as the Saturn V once did—and the lunar journeys should be wondrous.

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Such an early-afternoon liftoff would give the craft’s solar panel enough time to charge up its batteries for the flight.

She watched the liftoff from a boat floating down the Banana River near the launch site in Florida.

Every joke was tweaked and reworked multiple times to achieve maximum comic liftoff.

They tell Sandra McElwaine about their orbital road trip ahead of Scott's liftoff this week.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to liftoff, such as: launch, shot, blastoff, rocket firing, rocket ignition, and takeoff.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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