rocket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A vehicle or device driven through the air or space by burning fuel.

   The rocket lifted off and headed into space.

2. 2
   verb

   To rise or increase very quickly.

   House prices have rocketed over the past year.

3. 3
   verb

   To move very fast in one direction.

   The car rocketed forward when the driver hit the accelerator.

Common collocations

• rocket scientist Noun + noun

From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). 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. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spi…

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