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Etymology 1 [ edit ]
From Italian rocchetta , from Old Italian rochetto ( “ 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 rock ⁴ .
A rocket
( vehicle propelled by a rocket engine ) .
rocket (plural rockets )
A rocket engine .
( military ) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
A rocket propelled firework ; a skyrocket .
( slang ) An ace (the playing card ).
( military slang ) An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate .
1980 , David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance , Dutton, →ISBN , page 203 :While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, [William Joseph “Wild Bill”] Donovan had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket ” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. Solborg flew to Lisbon and then on to Washington to face out his problem with Donovan.
A blunt lance head used in jousting .
( figuratively ) Something that shoots high in the air.
2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport [1] , BBC Sport :Fernandinho launched a rocket that flew just over. Gundogan's shot hit off Sviatchenko and Gordon and went out. City pressed and pressed.
( Scotland , slang ) A stupid or crazy person.
2014 , Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Contemporary Scottish Plays
Why were the Luddites named efter Ned Ludd? A wee rocket . A wee fucken fairy bampot. A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up. A ned. Ned Ludd.
( South East England, slang ) A very physically attractive woman.
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rocket engine
Albanian: raketë (sq) f
Amharic: ሮኬት ( roket )
Arabic: صَارُوخ m ( ṣārūḵ )
Egyptian Arabic: صاروخ m ( ṣarūḵ )
Aragonese: codete m , codet
Armenian: հրթիռ (hy) ( hrtʿiṙ )
Asturian: cohete (ast) m
Azerbaijani: raket (az)
Belarusian: раке́та f ( rakjéta )
Bengali: রকেট ( rôkeṭ ) , মাহতাব (bn) ( mahtab )
Bulgarian: раке́та (bg) f ( rakéta )
Burmese: ဒုံးပျံ (my) ( dum:pyam )
Catalan: coet m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 火箭 發動機 , 火箭 发动机 ( huǒjiàn fādòngjī )
Czech: raketa (cs) f
Danish: raket (da) c
Dutch: raket (nl) m or f
Estonian: rakett
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: rakettimoottori (fi) , raketti (fi)
French: fusée (fr) f
Galician: foguete (gl) m
Georgian: რაკეტა ( raḳeṭa )
German: Rakete (de) f
Greek: πύραυλος (el) m ( pýravlos )
Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: מָנוֹעַ (he) m ( manóa ) , רָקֶטָה (he) f ( rakéta )
Hindi: राकेट (hi) m ( rākeṭ )
Hungarian: rakéta (hu) , rakétahajtómű
Icelandic: eldflaug (is) f
Indonesian: roket (id)
Irish: roicéad
Italian: motore a razzo (it) m
Japanese: ロケット (ja) ( roketto )
Kazakh: зымыран ( zymyran )
Khmer: កាំជ្រួច (km) ( kamcruəc ) , រ៉ុកកែត ( rokkaet )
Korean: 로켓 (ko) ( roket )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: roket (ku)
Kyrgyz: ракета (ky) ( raketa )
Lao: ຈະຫລວດ (lo) ( cha lūat ) , ຈະລວດ ( cha lūat ) , ຈະຣວດ ( cha rūat ) , ບັ້ງໄຟ ( bang fai )
Latin: rocheta (la) f , rucheta f , missile igneum n , radius ignifer
Latvian: raķete f
Lithuanian: raketa (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Rakéit f
Macedonian: раке́та f ( rakéta )
Malay: roket
Maltese: rokit m
Mizo: vànkhạwhthėi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: пуужин (mn) ( puužin )
Mongolian: ᠫᠤᠤᠵᠢᠩ ( puuǰiŋ )
Norman: fîsée f
Northern Sami: rakeahtta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rakett m
Persian: راکت (fa) ( râket )
Polish: rakieta (pl) f
Portuguese: foguete (pt) m
Romanian: rachetă (ro) f
Russian: раке́та (ru) f ( rakéta )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ракѐта f
Roman: rakèta (sh) f
Sinhalese: රොකට් ( rokaṭ )
Slovak: raketa f
Slovene: raketa (sl) f
Spanish: motor de cohete m
Swahili: roketi (sw) class n
Swedish: raketmotor c , raket (sv) c
Tagalog: kuwitis
Tajik: ракета ( raketa )
Thai: จรวด (th) ( jà-rùuat )
Tibetan: མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའི་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར ( me shugs 'phur mda'i 'phrul 'khor ) ( lit. fire-powered flying arrow machine )
Turkish: roket (tr) , füze (tr)
Turkmen: raketa
Ukrainian: раке́та f ( rakéta ) , раке́тний двигу́н m ( rakétnyj dvyhún )
Urdu: راکٹ ( rākeṭ )
Uyghur: راكېتا ( rakëta )
Uzbek: raketa (uz)
Vietnamese: động cơ tên lửa (動機𥏌焒 )
Volapük: raket
Yiddish: ראַקעט m ( raket )
military: non-guided missile
Arabic: صَارُوخ m ( ṣārūḵ ) , قَذِيفَة f ( qaḏīfa )
Egyptian Arabic: ساروخ m ( sarūḵ )
Armenian: հրթիռ (hy) ( hrtʿiṙ )
Belarusian: раке́та f ( rakjéta )
Bulgarian: раке́та (bg) f ( rakéta )
Burmese: ဒုံး (my) ( dum: )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 火箭 ( fo2 zin3 )
Mandarin: 火箭 (zh) ( huǒjiàn )
Czech: raketa (cs) f
Dutch: raket (nl) m or f
Esperanto: raketo (eo)
Finnish: raketti (fi)
French: roquette (fr) f
Georgian: რაკეტა ( raḳeṭa )
German: Rakete (de) f
Hebrew: רָקֶטָה (he) f ( rakéta ) , טִיל (he) m ( til )
Hungarian: rakéta (hu)
Italian: razzo (it) m
Japanese: 噴進弾 ( ふんしんだん, funshindan ) , ロケット (ja) ( roketto ) , ロケット弾 ( ロケットだん, roketto dan )
Khmer: រ៉ុកកែត ( rokkaet )
Korean: 로켓 (ko) ( roket ) , 로켓트 ( roket'teu ) , 미사일 (ko) ( misail )
Lao: ຈະຫລວດ (lo) ( cha lūat ) , ຈະລວດ ( cha lūat ) , ຈະຣວດ ( cha rūat )
Latin: rucheta f
Luxembourgish: Rakéit f
Macedonian: раке́та f ( rakéta )
Maltese: rokit
Norman: fîsée f
Northern Sami: rakeahtta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rakett m
Pashto: راکټ (ps) m ( rãkeṭ )
Persian: راکت (fa) ( râket )
Polish: rakieta (pl) f
Portuguese: foguete (pt) m
Romanian: rachetă (ro) f
Russian: раке́та (ru) f ( rakéta )
Slovene: raketa (sl) f
Spanish: cohete (es) m
Swahili: roketi (sw)
Swedish: raket (sv)
Tagalog: sikpad
Thai: จรวด (th) ( jà-rùuat )
Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའི་མཚོན་ཆ ( 'phur mda'i mtshon cha ) , འཕུར་མདའ ( 'phur mda' ) , མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའ ( me shugs 'phur mda' ) ( lit. fire-powered flying arrow )
Turkish: roket (tr) , füze (tr)
Ukrainian: раке́та f ( rakéta )
Uyghur: راكېتا ( rakëta )
Vietnamese: tên lửa (vi) (𥏌焒 )
Yiddish: ראַקעט m ( raket )
rocket-propelled firework
— See also translations at skyrocket
slang: ace
— See also translations at ace
military slang: angry communication to a subordinate
figuratively: something that shoots high in the air
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rocket (third-person singular simple present rockets , present participle rocketing , simple past and past participle rocketed )
( transitive , intransitive ) To accelerate swiftly and powerfully .
2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club [2] :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.
To fly vertically .
To rise or soar rapidly .
2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail , pages 48-49: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.
To carry something in a rocket .
To attack something with rockets .
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Etymology 2 [ edit ]
Borrowed from French roquette , from Italian ruchetta , diminutive of ruca , from Latin eruca . Cognate to arugula , rucola , eruca , roquette .
rocket (uncountable )
The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria .
Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis ).
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rocket m (plural rockets )
rocket ( weapon )
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