Synonyms for rocket


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : rok-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɒk ɪt

Top 10 synonyms for rocket Other synonyms for the word rocket

Définition of rocket

Origin :
  • garden plant of the cabbage family, c.1500, from Middle French roquette (16c.), from Italian rochetta, diminutive of ruca "a kind of cabbage," from Latin eruca "colewort," perhaps so called for its downy stems and related to ericus "hedgehog," also "a beam set with spikes," from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (see horror).
  • noun projectile
  • verb shoot up
Example sentences :
  • Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • That must be it—I was piloting a rocket and cracked up somewhere on Mars.
  • Extract from : « Flamedown » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • Suppose we could put a rocket on the Moon and bring it back?
  • Extract from : « The Big Tomorrow » by Paul Lohrman
  • And he must take her in, now that he had lost his own rocket!
  • Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson
  • It had, then, last been used to enter the rocket, not to leave it.
  • Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson
  • No knife, no rocket pistol, no line with magnet for securing oneself to a hull.
  • Extract from : « Satellite System » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • Yet the “Rocket” was by no means the “favourite” with either the judges or the spectators.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
  • On the morning of the 8th of October the “Rocket” was again ready for the contest.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
  • The Rocket alone met all the requirements and won the prize.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • There was nothing new in his Rocket, except his own workmanship.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson

Antonyms for rocket

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