From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from Old Italian [it], diminutive of [it], from [en], from
[en], from [en]. Cognate with [goh], [goh], [goh], [goh] ["a distaff"; >
[de]], [sv], [is], [enm]. More at _rock_ ⁴.
For the meaning development, compare [en], ultimately from [la].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. _A projectile._
1. A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion , [specifically] a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket . [from 16th c.]
2. A blunt lance head used in joust ing.
3. A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft . [from 20th c.]
4. An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine . [from 20th c.]
2. [en] _Figurative uses._
1. Something that travels high in the air and/or with great speed ; especially [sport] , a hard shot . [from 20th c.]
2. * [en]
3. [en] A severe reprimand ; a telling-off . [from 20th c.]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1973 | author= [Elizabeth Mavor] | title=A Green Equinox | publisher=Virago | year_published=2023 | page=93
|passage=The Burmese nurse who'd gone with her was crying, for which she'd no
doubt get a ROCKET from matron.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1980 | author=David Schoenbrun | title=Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=lWhkAAAAMAAJ | page=203 | publisher=Dutton | isbn=9780525206637
|passage=While Solborg and Lemaigre were dreaming of revolts, 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.}}
1. [en] An ace (the playing card ).
2. [en] A stupid or crazy person.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Alistair Beaton; Rob Drummond; Morna Pearson | title=Contemporary Scottish Plays
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A very physically attractive woman.
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|retrorocket |antimatter rocket|bottle rocket|crotch rocket|fission
rocket|fusion rocket|ghost rocket|hash rocket|life rocket|moon rocket|multiple
rocket launcher|nuclear-electric rocket|nuclear-pulse rocket|nuclear-thermal
rocket|nuclear-thermoelectric rocket|off one's rocket|pion rocket|polish one's
rocket|red rocket|rice rocket|rocket aircraft|rocket docket|rocket
festival|rocket garden|rocket jump|rocket motor|rocket pack|rocket pod|rocket
propellant 1|rocket propelled grenade|rocket scientist|rocket surgeon|rocket
surgery|rocket up|rocket-pack|rocket-propelled grenade|sea rocket|sounding
rocket|step rocket|stomp rocket|wall rocket|wall-rocket|yellow rocket |booster
rocket |chemical rocket |Congreve rocket |hybrid rocket |liquid rocket
|nuclear rocket |pocket rocket |rockaire,rockair |rocket artillery |rocket
belt |rocket booster |rocket car |rocketeer|corn rocket |rocket
launcher|rocket equation |rocket plane,rocket-plane,rocketplane |rocketry
|rocket science |rocket ship,rocket-ship,rocketship |rocket
sled,rocket-sled,rocketsled |rocket sonde,rocket-sonde,rocketsonde |rocket
stage |rockoon |skyrocket,sky-rocket,sky rocket |snot rocket |solid rocket
|space rocket |thermal rocket |water rocket }}
***** Translations
[rocket engine]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aragonese: [an] , [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] [lit. fire-powered flying arrow machine]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Volapük: [vo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[military: non-guided missile]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] , [bo] [lit. fire-powered flying arrow]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[vehicle]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] [lit. fire-powered flying arrow]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[rocket-propelled firework]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Lao: [lo]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Malay: [ms]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: ace] [trans-bottom]
[military slang: angry communication to a subordinate] [trans-bottom]
[blunt lance head] [trans-bottom]
[figuratively: something that shoots high in the air]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[stupid or crazy person]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [en]
***** References
- Watkins, Calvert (2000). _The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots_ 2nd edn., p. 72, s.v. _ruk-_ . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [978-0-618-08250-6] .
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000). _The Official Dictionary of Poker (see http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp) ._ MGI/Mike Caro University. [978-1880069523] .
- [R:Dictionary.com]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To accelerate swiftly and powerfully .
2. * [en]
3. To fly vertically .
4. To rise or soar rapidly .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
8. To carry something in a rocket .
9. To attack something with rocket s.
***** Translations
[to accelerate]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[to fly vertically]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to rise or soar rapidly]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to carry]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to attack]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en] Borrowed from [en], from [en], diminutive of [it], from [en]. Cognate to
[en], [en], [en], [en].
[Rocket (vegetable)]
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] [en] A leaf vegetable of species [Eruca sativa] or [Eruca vesicaria] .
2. [en] Any plant of the genus [Eruca] .
3. * [1=en]
4. [en] [rocket larkspur] ( [Consolida regalis] , syn. [Delphinium consolida] ).
***** Derived terms
{{col|en |[wild rocket], [perennial wall rocket], [sand rocket], [white
rocket] ([Diplotaxis tenuifolia]) |London rocket ([Sisymbrium irio]) |dame's
rocket, [sweet rocket] ([Hesperis matronalis]) |[blue rocket] ([Aconitum])
|dyer's rocket, [bastard rocket] (_Reseda_) |yellowrocket, [rocketcress],
[winter rocket], [wound rocket] ([Barbarea vulgaris]) }}
***** Translations
[arugula]
[rocket larkspur]
[en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [weapon]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]