Rocketed vs Docketed - What's the difference?
rocketed | docketed |
(rocket)
A rocket engine.
(military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
(slang) An ace (the playing card).
An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
* 1980 , David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of , Dutton, ISBN 9780525206637, page 203,
A blunt lance head used in jousting.
To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
To fly vertically
To rise or soar rapidly
To carry something in a rocket
To attack something with rockets
The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa'' or ''Eruca vesicaria .
rocket larkspur
(docket)
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
(legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
An agenda of things to be done.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
To make an entry in a docket.
To label a parcel etc.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between rocketed and docketed
is that rocketed is past tense of rocket while docketed is past tense of docket.rocketed
English
Verb
(head)rocket
English
(wikipedia rocket)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rocchetta, from (etyl) . More at .Noun
(en noun)- While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket ” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. Solborg flew to Lisbon and then on to Washington to face out his problem with Donovan.
Derived terms
* chemical rocket * Congreve rocket * hybrid rocket * liquid rocket * nuclear rocket * rocket belt * rocket car * rocketeer * rocket launcher * rocket plane * rocketry * rocket science * rocket ship * rocket stage * skyrocket * snot rocket * solid rocket * space rocket * thermal rocket * water rocketSee also
* ICBMReferences
* Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots'' 2nd edn., p. ,72, s.v. ''ruk- . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0-618-08250-6. * Weisenberg, Michael (2000).The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523. *
Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
(etyl) roquette, (etyl) ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, (etyl) eruca. Cognate to (arugula).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (US) arugula * rocket saladdocketed
English
Verb
(head)docket
English
(wikipedia docket)Noun
(en noun)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- to docket goods
- to docket letters and papers
- (Chesterfield)
- judgments regularly docketed
