to rocket
- verb
- /ˈrɑːkɪt/
- Specialized
- Another explosion hits the flagpole, rocketing the Fort's flag into the courtyard.
- rocket into space
- rocket into orbit
- rocket astronauts into orbit
Someone said you don't jet to space, you rocket to space and you can off to space.
- Someone said you don't jet to space, you rocket to space and you can off to space.
Examples
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And you can see it's rocketing around in the cell.
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Charly watches the two vehicles rocketing away down the street.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'll come, if you rocket there right away.
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We see it is joined by fourteen other missiles, all rocketing towards their target.
Fiction book (1996) -
The capsule blows through the top of the museum, rocketing towards the starry night sky above.
Fiction book (1997) -
Suddenly, State Police cruisers rocket up the road with sirens and lights. Red (V.O.)
Fiction book (1994) -
And so Voyager II is now a part of history... rocketing into space from its launch pad here at Cape Kennedy... on this historic date, August 20, 1977.
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Cutter rides the HARLEY, rocketing cross-country in the direction of the fairgrounds.
Fiction book (1992) -
The spacecraft rocketed into orbit after a successful launch.
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The athlete rocketed down the track, breaking the previous record.
Synonyms
To make something move, for example a boat or rocket
To leave the ground and begin to fly
To rise into the air from the ground like a plane or rocket
To send a rocket up into the sky or space
Send a man-made satellite into space using a rocket
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that makes a push by throwing out its own fuel very fast for spaceships or missiles
- Specialized
A large engine that gives a spacecraft its first push and falls off when empty
- Specialized
An engine that uses heat from splitting atoms to push a spaceship into space
- Specialized
A way to move a vehicle by pushing out gas very fast so it works in space
- UK
A tall garden plant with strong sweet-smelling purple or white flowers that smell at night
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A space vehicle with two or more parts that fire and drop as fuel runs out
- Specialized
A tall garden plant with long spikes of blue, purple, or pink flowers
A low plant with thick grey-green leaves and pink or purple flowers that grows by the sea
- Specialized
A powerful first part of a space vehicle that lifts it off the ground
A plant that lives for several years with small yellow flowers and hairy leaves that grows in mountain areas
- Specialized
A rocket that uses solid fuel to make hot gas and push it forward
- Specialized
A small rocket that carries scientific instruments high into the atmosphere to collect data
- Specialized
A rocket with two or more parts that fire one after another and drop away when empty to reach space
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb rocket comes from the noun for a fast, flying tube; to rocket something is to send it up quickly like a flying rocket. This connection to the fast, upward movement is why we use the verb this way.