rocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
surfing
war
Etymology: From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.
Base: rock
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
pos: noun
examples: The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
"By Jove, old boy," said Cripps, assisting the curate up, "should have warned you about that chair - the infernal rockers are sawn off short, you know."
gloss: A rocking chair.
pos: noun
examples: A few days before he turned 80
He was sittin' out back in a rocker
gloss: The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
pos: noun
examples: All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm
gloss: The breve below as in ḫ.
pos: noun
examples: Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.
Although the exact sound value of s remains uncertain, and there is only one such sibiliant in Hittite, it is traditionally transliterated with a so-called haček: š. This should not be taken, however, as evidence that it was a palatal sound (as sh in show). The same is true for the traditional “rocker” under the laryngeal ḫ: there is no other h-sign, and the diacritic is not strictly necessary.
Semitistic transliteration systems […] a number of features are common to most of them: […] ḫ (“h” with a “rocker,” conventionally called “hooked h”) for the voiceless velar/uvular fricative, IPA [x]/[χ], […]
gloss: Someone passionate about rock music.
pos: noun
gloss: A musician who plays rock music.
pos: noun
gloss: A rock music song.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
gloss: One who rocks something.
pos: noun
examples: It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]
gloss: A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
pos: noun
gloss: A rocking horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A rocker board.
pos: noun
gloss: A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
pos: noun
gloss: A rock shaft.
pos: noun
gloss: A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
pos: noun
examples: Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.
Derived words: acoustic rocker
alt-rocker
antirocker
anti-rocker
cock rocker
deathrocker
folk-rocker
glam rocker
gyrorocker
hard rocker
off one's rocker
platform rocker
punk rocker
rocker arm
rockered
rockerish
rocker panel
rockers reggae
rocker switch
root-rocker
spring rocker
stoner rocker
surf rocker
tri-rocker
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