different between enlarge vs rocket

English

Etymology

From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?l??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?l??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Verb

enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)

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1. (transitive) To make (something) larger.
2. (intransitive) To grow larger.
3. (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

   • O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.

4. (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
   • 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:

     I shall enlarge upon the Point.

5. (archaic) To release; to set at large.
   • 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:

     Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.

   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)

     It will enlarge us from all restraints.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II Scene II:

     Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.

6. (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
7. (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).

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Synonyms

• (make larger, expand): embiggen, enlargen, largen, greaten
• (speak or write at length): dilate, expatiate

Related terms

• magnify
• supersize

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “enlarge”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• General, general, gleaner, reangle

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Etymology 1

From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rochetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko, rukka (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock?.

Noun

rocket (plural rockets)

1. A rocket engine.
2. (military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
3. A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
4. A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
5. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
6. (military slang) An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
   • 1980, David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance,^[1] Dutton, ?ISBN, page 203,

     While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, [William Joseph “Wild Bill”] Donovan 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.

7. A blunt lance head used in jousting.
8. (figuratively) Something that shoots high in the air.
9. (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
   • 2014, Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Contemporary Scottish Plays

     Why were the Luddites named efter Ned Ludd? A wee rocket. A wee fucken fairy bampot. A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up. A ned. Ned Ludd.

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Translations

See also

• ICBM

References

• Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots 2nd edn., p. 72, s.v. ruk-. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ?ISBN.
• Weisenberg, Michael (2000). The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN.
• “rocket” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Verb

rocket (third-person singular simple present rockets, present participle rocketing, simple past and past participle rocketed)

1. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
2. To fly vertically
3. To rise or soar rapidly
4. To carry something in a rocket
5. To attack something with rockets

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula.

Noun

rocket (uncountable)

1. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
2. rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis)

Synonyms

• (US) arugula
• rocket salad

Derived terms

• wild rocket, perennial wall rocket, sand rocket, white rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia)
• London rocket (Sisymbrium irio)
• dame's rocket, sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
• blue rocket (Aconitum)
• dyer's rocket, bastard rocket (Reseda)
• yellowrocket, rocketcress, winter rocket, wound rocket (Barbarea vulgaris)

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