rocket

«rocket» in Mova's school dictionary: a tall vehicle with powerful engines that pushes it up… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rocket, rockets); verb (rocket, rockets, rocketed, rocketing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A rocket is a tall vehicle with powerful engines that pushes it up into space. tree →

2) A rocket is also a firework that shoots high into the sky and explodes in colours. tree →

3) To rocket is to rise or move very fast, like prices going up quickly. tree →

4) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, rocket is a salad leaf with a peppery taste; Americans call it arugula. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, rockets show forces: hot gas pushes down and the rocket goes up. Children make bottle rockets and paper rockets. In safety lessons, firework rockets must only be lit by adults. In stories, «rocketed» means something moved very fast. Phrases: «rocket launch», «rocket ship», «rocket fuel», «it's not rocket science».

examples

• The rocket blasted off into space. tree →
• We made a rocket from a plastic bottle and water. tree →
• A firework rocket burst into red stars. tree →
• Only adults should light firework rockets. tree →
• The price of bananas rocketed. tree →
• He rocketed down the slide. tree →
• Grandma put rocket leaves in the salad. tree →
• Tying your shoes is easy; it's not rocket science. tree →

note

Countable: a rocket, rockets. Past form of the verb: rocketed (one t). «It's not rocket science» means something is not difficult. A rocket and a spaceship are not always the same: the rocket is often the engine part that lifts the spacecraft.

In the corpora

• Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys.
• "Not exactly a rocket scientist" is a joke meaning not clever.
• Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build a Lego rocket after school.
• Oliver said sorry, and on Saturday he played with Alfie the whole morning — the rocket, two spaceships and a moon base.
• The chief designer of the Soviet rockets was Serhiy Korolev, who was born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rocket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.