rocket

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A rocket engine.
2. n. A vehicle or device propelled by one or more rocket engines, especially such a vehicle designed to travel through space.
3. n. A projectile weapon carrying a warhead that is powered and propelled by rockets.
4. n. A projectile firework having a cylindrical shape and a fuse that is lit from the rear.
5. v. To move swiftly and powerfully, as a rocket
6. v. To fly swiftly straight up, as a game bird frightened from cover.
7. v. To soar or rise rapidly: The book rocketed to the top of the bestseller list.
8. v. To carry by means of a rocket.
9. v. To assault with rockets.
10. n. See arugula.
11. n. Any of several plants of the mustard family, especially the dame's rocket and the sea rocket.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A cylindrical tube of pasteboard or metal filled with a mixture of niter, sulphur, charcoal, etc., which, on being ignited at the base, propels the tube forward by the impact of the liberated gases against the atmosphere. Rockets are used for various purposes.
2. n. The lever by which a forge-bellows is inflated.
3. To fly straight up rapidly when flushed, as a pheasant.
4. n. In old usage, the salad-plant Eruca sativa. See Eruca.
5. n. In modern usage, a plant of the genus Hesperis, chiefly H. matronalis, also called dame's-violet or -rocket, garden-rocket, or white rocket. This is a somewhat coarse standard garden plant with racemes of rather large flowers, which are fragrant after dark. They are naturally pinkish and single, but in cultivation have double varieties both white and purple. H. tristis is the night-scented rocket or stock.
6. n. One of various other plants, chiefly Cruciferæ. See phrases.
7. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of rochet.
8. n. A portion.
9. n. Same as water-rocket, 3.

Wiktionary

1. n. A rocket engine.
2. n. military A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
3. n. A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
4. n. A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
5. n. slang An ace (the playing card).
6. n. military slang An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
7. v. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
8. v. To fly vertically
9. v. To rise or soar rapidly
10. v. To carry something in a rocket
11. v. To attack something with rockets
12. n. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
2. n. Damewort.
3. n. Rocket larkspur. See below.
4. n. An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
5. n. A blunt lance head used in the joust.
6. n. any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.
7. v. (Sporting), engraving To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
2. v. propel with a rocket
3. n. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
4. n. sends a firework display high into the sky
5. n. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
6. n. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
7. n. propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon