Antonyms for rocket

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : rok-it

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɒk ɪt

Definition 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

Synonyms for rocket

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