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Definition
noun (English)
1. A formation of minerals, specifically:Examples: "The face of the cliff is solid rock."; "Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge."; "This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands."Synonyms: stoneuncountable
2. A formation of minerals, specifically:Examples: "Some fool has thrown a rock through my window."Synonyms: boulder, pebble, stoneIrelandUKcountableuncountable
3. A formation of minerals, specifically:countableuncountable
4. A formation of minerals, specifically:Examples: "Look at the size of that rock on her finger!"; "I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops"; "Here she is, a billionaire’s wife, yet gripped by constant social anxiety, forever agonising that she’d worn her best rocks to an event that actually called for “patio jewellery” (necklaces $1m or under)."Synonyms: gem, diamondcolloquialcountableuncountable
5. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.Examples: "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."; "1991, Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman, Soapdish, Paramount Pictures, Celeste Talbert: She is my rock, my right hand."Synonyms: foundation, supportcountablefigurativelyuncountable
6. (British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.Examples: "While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!"; "Most Kenyans blithely assumed that if the British high commissioner said something, it represented British policy, a thought-through position running from one end of government to the other, like the lettering in a stick of Brighton rock."Britishuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.Examples: "Rock the baby to sleep."; "The empty swing rocked back and forth in the wind."; "To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling."Synonyms: waverintransitivetransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.Examples: "Don't rock the boat."; "A rising earthquake rocked the ground."Synonyms: agitate, troubletransitive
3. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.Examples: "The boat rocked at anchor."intransitive
4. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.Examples: "The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection."intransitivetransitive
5. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).Examples: "Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal."; "She rocked my world."transitive
6. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.Examples: "The Blues' challenge had been rocking at that point, with Terry's centre-back partner Gary Cahill lost to injury and Barca having just levelled the tie through Busquets's neat, close-range finish from Isaac Cuenca's pull-back."Synonyms: cook with gas, flourishintransitive
noun (English)
1. (music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.Examples: "Let's rock!"; "I wanna rock! (Rock!) / I wanna rock! (Rock!) / I want to rock! (Rock!) / I wanna rock! (Rock!)"intransitive
2. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.Examples: "Chocolate rocks."; "My holidays in Ibiza rocked! I can't wait to go back."Synonyms: bang, rule, bang, devour, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, excel, go hardAntonyms: stink, suckintransitiveslang
3. (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.Examples: "Let's rock this joint!"transitive
4. (intransitive) To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.Examples: "The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five."intransitive
5. (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.Examples: "I need to rock a piss."transitive
6. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).Examples: "I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops"; "Take today, where she's rocking that well-known fashion combo – a Tory Burch outfit offset with a whacking great bruise attained by smacking her head on a plane's overhead lockers."; "Rihanna was the pick of the best bunch, rocking a black backless crocodile dress from Tom Ford’s Autumn 2012 collection"Synonyms: sporttransitive
noun (English)
1. (countable) Distaff.Examples: "Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread / By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, / That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid."; "By order of the General Court in 1642, the "prudentiall" men of each town were instructed "to take care of such [children] as are sett to keep cattle be set to some other employment withal, as spinning upon the rock, knitting, weaving tape, etc., and that boys and girls be not suffered to converse together so as may occasion any wanton, dishonest or immodest behavior."; "A prepared end of yarn being fixed into the notch, the spinster, by a smart rolling motion of the spindle with the right hand against the right leg, threw it out from her, spinning in the air, while, with the left hand, she drew from the rock an additional supply of fibre which was formed into a uniform and equal strand with the right."countable
2. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.uncountable
name (English)
1. the Rock
2. the RockAustralia
3. the Rock
4. the RockCanada
Definition source: Wiktionary