rocket

Speech parts

1. rocket - Noun

2. rocket - Verb

Meaning

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

Damewort.

Rocket larkspur. See below.

An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.

A blunt lance head used in the joust.

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skyrocket arugula rocket salad missile projectile firework roquette spacecraft rocket engine guided missile mount mercury luna quicksilver beacon
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Antonyms

dally clang date dawdle contract slow
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Hypernyms

herb rise vehicle lift arise propel

Hyponyms

missile booster thruster retrorocket space rocket nuclear rocket

Phrases with the word

rocket science polish one's rocket London rocket lap rocket love rocket it's not rocket science

Derivatives

rocketed rocketing

Examples

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. William Wordsworth

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began. Arthur C. Clarke

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. Charlie Sheen

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. Sylvia Plath

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet. Wernher von Braun

Close letter words and terms

rockers reggae rockery rockesque rocket aircraft rocket airplane rocket artillery