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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin

Meaning of "rackets" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RACKETS

rackets  [ˈrækɪts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RACKETS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rackets is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RACKETS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Racket

Racket may refer to: ▪ Racket, a systematised element of organized crime ▪ Racket, a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other sports ▪ Rackets, a ball game ▪ Racket, West Virginia ▪ Racket with Michele Placido, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi ▪ Rackett, a Renaissance woodwind instrument ▪ Racket, a multi-paradigm programming language formerly known as PLT Scheme ▪ Radne Racket 120, an aircraft engine...

Definition of rackets in the English dictionary

The definition of rackets in the dictionary is a game similar to squash played in a large four-walled court by two or four players using rackets and a small hard ball.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RACKETS


blitz
blɪts
bracelets
ˈbreɪslɪts
credits
ˈkrɛdɪts
dates
deɪts
favourites
ˈfeɪvrɪts
Gates
ɡeɪts
heights
ˈhaɪts
highlights
ˈhaɪlaɪts
it´s
ɪts
its
ɪts
lights
laɪts
Massachusetts
ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts
minutes
ˈmɪnɪts
nights
naɪts
rates
reɪts
rickets
ˈrɪkɪts
rights
raɪts
States
steɪts
tickets
ˈtɪkɪts
units
ˈjuːnɪts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RACKETS

rack-rent
rack-renter
rackabones
racker
racket
racket press
racket sports
racket-tail
racketeer
racketeering
racketer
racketry
rackett
rackety
rackful
Rackham
racking
rackingly
rackle
rackwork

WORDS THAT END LIKE RACKETS

assets
chicken nuggets
commodity markets
current assets
entremets
fixed assets
intangible assets
Kuznets
line one´s pockets
Minor Prophets
new planets
on the streets
Prophets
regrets
Soviets
squash rackets
Tower Hamlets
triplets
walk the streets
woman of the streets

Synonyms and antonyms of rackets in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RACKETS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rackets» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rackets

Translation of «rackets» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RACKETS

Find out the translation of rackets to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rackets from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rackets» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

球拍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

raquetas
570 millions of speakers

English

rackets
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रैकेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مضارب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ракетки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raquetes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টেনিস্ খেলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raquettes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Raket
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schläger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラケット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

라켓
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Raket
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điều trá ngụy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடக்கும் மோசடிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॅकेट्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

raketleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

racchette
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rakiety
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ракетки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rachete
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρακέτες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rakette
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

racketar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

racketer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rackets

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RACKETS»

The term «rackets» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.474 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RACKETS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rackets» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rackets» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rackets

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4 QUOTES WITH «RACKETS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rackets.
1
Al Capone
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
2
Brad Gilbert
Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
3
John McEnroe
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
4
Marat Safin
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACKETS»

Discover the use of rackets in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rackets and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reds Or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative ...
Approaching the question from a different angle, "Reds or Rackets?" provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within ...
Howard Kimeldorf, 1988
2
Bats, Sticks & Rackets
Introduces sports gear that allows athletes to hit items, including golf clubs, baseball and softball bats, and ice hockey sticks.
Mary Elizabeth Salzmann, 2011
3
Investigation of So-called "rackets". Hearings Before a ...
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATING RACKETS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2.30 p.m., in the committee room of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, 1934
4
Game/Set/Match: A Tennis Guide
Wide-Body and Extra-Long Rackets Wide-body rackets emerged as a popular racket just a few years ago. They provided maximum power with increased control, and they bent less at contact, giving the ball more energy. This technology has ...
James Bryant, 2007
5
Squash Racquets: the Khan Game
So he "talked" the book in a great number of sessions, in the court and out of it, with Richard E. Randall, one of his students and a professional writer. The collaboration worked well. The book gives Hashim as he actually thinks and talks.
Hashim Khan, Richard E. Randall, 1967
6
Tennis Science for Tennis Players
Oversize rackets, which should be strung at proportionally higher tensions, must be made with considerably stronger frames to withstand the greater forces—even before a ball is hit. Some players claim that a wooden racket has a certain ...
Howard Brody, 2011
7
Max Horkheimer: A New Interpretation
market ceased to prevail, difficulties in providing clear answers in specific cases, as the debate over the nature of Goring's economic activities in the Third Reich shows.16 Despite these problems Horkheimer's fragmentary theory of rackets is ...
Peter M. R. Stirk, 1992
8
Classification Definitions
67. BATS, MALLETS, RACKETS, CUES, PINS, SLINGS, AND BILLIES. Those devices clearly indicated in the title of this subclass. 68. BATS, MALLETS, RACKETS, CUES, PINS, SLINGS, AND BILLIES, BILLIARD CUES. Cues used for playing ...
United States. Patent Office, 1921
9
Presenting Futures: Presenting futures [electronic resource]
As a simple example, if the market for tennis rackets is $100 million, and has been growing between 2 percent and 3 percent for a decade, then it is very straightforward to calculate the likely market size for several years ahead. The addition of ...
Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, Jameson M. Wetmore, 2008
10
Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science
Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett. Figure 17.1 A century of change in tennis rackets. There were several attempts to use other materials in racket construction early in the twentieth century, but it was not until the 1960s that rackets made of steel and  ...
Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RACKETS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rackets is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Album Review: Rackets - Walking The Skeleton
Auckland ciggy-punk bandits Rackets' latest release Walking The Skeleton is comprised of both new songs and old. Recorded with fabled New Zealand ... «Undertheradar, Jul 15»
2
Most tennis players will do fine with just these 2 rackets
To do that, you're going to need a racket. But the choices! Dizzying! It's not like it was 40 years ago when you could spend $50 on a wood Dunlop Maxply and be ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
3
Fake Badminton Rackets Seized
In the raids conducted at Sports Bazar, Angamaly, and Shan Sports, Chalakudy, several fake badminton rackets manufactured using the brand name 'Yonex' ... «The New Indian Express, May 15»
4
These smart tennis rackets are seriously wired
French equipment manufacturer Babolat has developed a new 'smart racket' with special sensors in the handle that record the players' performance on court, ... «ITProPortal, May 15»
5
City police bust two sex rackets, four held
COIMBATORE: Two sex rackets were busted in two separate incidents by the Coimbatore city police on Saturday evening and four women were rescued from ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
6
Calcutta HC concerned over kidney rackets
KOLKATA: Is there enough coordination among various government agencies and is there someone responsible to check the burgeoning kidney rackets in this ... «Times of India, Mar 15»
7
Thief steals 53 rackets from St. Pete elementary school
Some rackets were found, still in plastic, near an open box at the crime scene. ... at a St. Petersburg elementary school this week and stole 53 racquetball rackets ... «TBO.com, Jan 15»
8
Putting the 'smartest' racket in tennis to the test
Technology has radically changed the game of tennis—from the rackets and strings to the data used to analyze opponents. Now, a new "smart racket" may take ... «CNBC, Aug 14»
9
Live Photos: Rackets and Las Tetas - The Studio, Auckland
Stoner rock outfit Rackets teamed up with the ladies of Las Tetas on Saturday night for a gig in The Studio foyer. Rackets have been lying low on the live front ... «Undertheradar, Aug 14»
10
Secret Handshakes in India Rackets Fuel Inflation
The ruling Congress party put trader rackets on its priority list after surging prices for onions -- an Indian diet staple -- contributed to local-election losses late last ... «Bloomberg, Mar 14»

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