Question 1 · Quick check
rocket
CEFRB1
/ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A vehicle or weapon that travels through the air using powerful engines.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA projectile., A blunt lance head used in jousting.
Examples
Our calculations show that the rocket is off its course.
The astronauts went up to the moon in a rocket.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
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- Parts of speech
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- Synonyms
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Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA projectile.
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.
A blunt lance head used in jousting.
More examples
In contextAfter spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
As Elon Musk returns his focus to his businesses, one of his most important companies just had another setback: A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in an immense fireball Wednesday during a routine ground test.
And avoid certain aphrodisiac foods, such as onions and rockets.
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Origin
noun
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 (“spindle, spinning wheel”).