rocket

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. projectile, missile; propulsor; rocket or space ship; skyrocket, firework. See astronautics, arms, velocity.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. projectile, missile, retrorocket, spacecraft, guided missile, ballistic missile, flying missile; see also spacecraft .

Kinds of rockets include: liquid-fuel, solid-fuel, space, long-range, air-to-air (ATA), air-to-ground (ATG), ground-to-air (GTA), ground to ground (GTG), barrage rocket, high velocity aircraft rocket (HVAR), ship-to-shore (STS), ship-to-ship, multiple re-entry vehicle (MRV), multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV); space shuttle. v.

Syn. fly, climb, shoot up, skyrocket, ascend, soar, spring up, zoom.

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

missile, projectile, spaceship, spacecraft, space capsule. see missile, spacecraft

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v.

soar, shoot up, fly skyward, skyrocket, climb, *take off like a shot, whiz, zoom.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal: hotfoot, rip. Slang: barrel, highball. Chiefly British: nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE. 2. To rise abruptly and precipitously: sky, skyrocket, soar. Informal: shoot up. See INCREASE.