Rocket Definition

rŏkĭt
rocketed, rocketing, rockets
noun
rockets
Any of various devices, typically cylindrical, containing liquid or solid propellants which when ignited produce hot gases or ions that escape through a rear vent and drive the container forward by the principle of reaction: simple rockets are used mainly as fireworks, signals, and projectile weapons, while more complex rockets are used to propel guided missiles, ballistic missiles, and spacecraft.
Webster's New World
A rocket engine.
Wiktionary
A vehicle or device propelled by one or more rocket engines, especially such a vehicle designed to travel through space.
American Heritage
A spacecraft, missile, probe, etc. propelled by a rocket.
Webster's New World
Any of various plants of the crucifer family, with white, yellow, pink, or purple flowers; esp., sea rocket (genus Cakile) found along seashores in Europe and North America.
Webster's New World
verb
rocketed, rocketing, rockets
To go like a rocket; dart ahead swiftly.
Webster's New World
To travel in a rocket.
Webster's New World
To fly swiftly straight up, as a game bird frightened from cover.
American Heritage
To convey in a rocket.
Webster's New World
To propel with or as with sudden force.
A hit song rocketing a singer to stardom.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Rocket

Noun

Singular:
rocket
Plural:
rockets

Origin of Rocket

  • From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rochetto (“rocket", literally “a bobbin"), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff"), from Lombardic *rocco, *rocko (“a distaff"), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff"). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff")), Swedish rock (“a distaff"), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff"), Middle English rocke (“a distaff"). More at rock⁴.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English rokette from Old French roquete from Italian rochetta variant of ruchetta diminutive of ruca arugula from Latin ērūca

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French roquette, Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula.

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian rocchetta diminutive of rocca spindle, distaff of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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