rocket
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noun
any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
The astronauts sat upon the rocket and reflected on their lives.
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noun
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender, known as arugula in some dialects of English
They always have a fantastic rocket salad!
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verb
to propel with a rocket
The astronauts rocketed towards space in their capsule.
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verb
to gain speed abruptly
Suddenly the car rocketed forward when the driver accelerated at maximum
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noun
Figurative uses.
Fernandinho launched a rocket that flew just over. Gundogan's shot hit off Sviatchenko and Gordon and went out. City pressed and pressed.
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verb
To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite.
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verb
To rise or soar rapidly.
The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.
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verb
To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
Etymology
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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