Meaning of rock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke ).
2. A formation of minerals, specifically:
   uncountable
3. The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
   uncountable
4. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
5. 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
6. rock (music style)
7. Distaff.
   countable
8. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird).
   alt-of, archaic
9. A formation of minerals, specifically: The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust
10. A male given name transferred from the surname.
11. A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
    countable, uncountable
12. The flax or wool on a distaff.
    uncountable
13. The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust
14. A number of places in England:
15. A coastal village in St Minver Lowlands parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9375).
16. A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
    Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable
17. A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water
18. A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2702).
19. Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
    countable, uncountable
20. A boulder or large stone; or a smaller stone; a pebble
21. Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals
22. A village in Rennington parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU2020).
23. A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
24. A hamlet in Curry Mallet parish, South Somerset district and North Curry parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3222).
25. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
    countable, uncountable
26. A hamlet in Washington parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1214).
27. Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
28. A lump or cube of ice.
    countable, uncountable
29. A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7371).
30. A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
    British, uncountable
31. A place in Wales:
32. A hamlet in Blackwood community, Caerphilly borough county borough (OS grid ref ST1898).
33. A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
34. A hamlet north-east of Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough (OS grid ref SS7993).
35. An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
36. The Rock, a village south-west of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
37. An Afrikaner.
    South-Africa, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
38. A number of places in the United States:
39. An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas.
40. An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
41. An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Delta County, Michigan.
42. Any of several fish:
    countable, uncountable
43. The striped bass.
    countable, uncountable
44. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
45. The huss or rock salmon.
    countable, uncountable
46. A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
47. A basketball.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
48. A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
49. A mistake.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
50. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rock Township.
51. Synonym of stone.
    countable, uncountable
52. the Rock
53. Nickname of Gibraltar.
54. A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
    countable, uncountable
55. Nickname of Uluru.
    Australia
56. A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
    countable, informal, uncountable
57. Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA.
58. A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
    countable, uncountable
59. Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
    Canada

Equivalents

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.”

“The ship crashed on the rocks.”

“This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostly rocks that can reach several stories high.”

“Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.”

“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).”

“In an Instagram post on Monday, Georgina Rodríguez, the longtime girlfriend of the soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, shared a photo of a gigantic rock on her ring finger.”

“Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.”

“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.”

“I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.”

“While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!”

“With my little stick of Blackpool rock/Along the promenade I stroll.”

“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.”

“I ain't guilty, ‘cause even though I sell rocks / It feels good puttin' money in your mailbox”

“When I necked five-quid bottles of vodka, I did not read the label. When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test.”

“We ordered rock and chips to take away.”

“Yo homie, pass the rock!”

“It [the original Space Jam limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan’s swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put the rock through the net.”

“Now, you should never make the last out of an inning at third, and when a player does it, everyone knows he pulled a rock.”

“It was easily possible to double the cost of a CB rig just by adding all of the "rocks" necessary to do the job.”

“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.”

“It is true that in Ireland, even in recent years, the flax, before being placed on the rock or distaff, was tangled into a mass, or, as Cormmelin expresses it, “drawn out in a flat cake.””

“Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look she has said is more than a style preference.”

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