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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   rocket

   • IPA[ˈräkət]

   美式

   • n.
     a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal.；an engine that operates by the combustion of its contents, providing thrust as in a jet engine but without depending on the intake of air for combustion.
   • v.
     (of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly；move or progress very rapidly

   • verb: rocket, 3rd person present: rockets, gerund or present participle: rocketing, past tense: rocketed, past participle: rocketed

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal. 同義詞 missile, projectile, raretrajectile
   • ▪ an engine that operates by the combustion of its contents, providing thrust as in a jet engine but without depending on the intake of air for combustion.
   • ▪ an elongated rocket-propelled missile or spacecraft.
   • ▪ used, especially in similes and comparisons, to refer to a person or thing that moves very fast or to an action that is done with great force she shot out of her chair like a rocket

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. (of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly sales of milk in supermarkets are rocketing 同義詞 shoot up, soar, increase rapidly, rise rapidly, escalate, ... 更多spiral upwards, informalgo through the ceiling, go through the roof, skyrocket反義詞 fall, plummet
   • ▪ move or progress very rapidly she showed the kind of form that rocketed her to the semifinals last year the cab rocketed down a ramp 同義詞 speed, zoom, shoot, roar, whiz, ... 更多career, go hell for leather, informalscorch, tear, go like a bat out of hell, bomb, barrel, hightail it
   • 2. attack with rocket-propelled missiles the city was rocketed and bombed from the air