Ariane

[ ar-ee-an; French a-ryan ]

noun

1. Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
2. a female given name, French form of Ariadne.

Example Sentences

At this point, you’re probably already familiar with the faces of popular stock photo models, like Ariane The Overexposed Stock Image Girl.

From Popular-Science

Ariane will send JWST directly to this location without orbiting Earth first, but small rockets will fire during the first day to tweak the trajectory, and then a final burn will insert the observatory into orbit around L2 a month later.

From Singularity Hub 

Because the James Webb Space Telescope is so large, the segments had to be folded up like origami to fit inside the 171-by-18 feet Ariane 5 rocket.

From Popular-Science

The telescope is fully fueled and has just been moved to the facility where it will be stacked atop the Ariane 5 rocket.

From Ars Technica

As a mother to three daughters, Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane, Máxima has passed her style down to the next generation.

From The Daily Beast

Ever the gentleman, however, he announced that he, together with Ariane, had read and appreciated the first two chapters.

From The Daily Beast

Ariane was born and raised in a two-star Michelin kitchen in Gascony, a rustic corner in Southwest France.

From The Daily Beast

But, at first, Ariane trained for a different career, graduating from Columbia with a journalism degree.

From The Daily Beast

Had it been written in compunction for Ariane aux bords laisse?

From Project Gutenberg

The wives are adorning them-761-selves with the help of Ariane.

From Project Gutenberg

But to the astonishment of all Ariane bandages his wounds and the others help her.

From Project Gutenberg

A jet of water extinguishes Ariane's light, but she is not fearful.

From Project Gutenberg

Here Ariane is surprised by Blue-Beard, who lays hold of her.

From Project Gutenberg