rock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin roccabor.?
Old English *rocc
Early Medieval Latin rocca
Anglo-Norman roquebor.
Middle English rokke
English rock
Inherited from Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”). One suggestion is that it derives from Vulgar Latin *rupica, from rupes (compare rupico).
Inflected forms:
form: rocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A formation of minerals, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
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.
gloss: A formation of minerals, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A formation of minerals, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.
gloss: A formation of minerals, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A formation of minerals, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
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).
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.
gloss: A large hill or island having no vegetation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The captain named it Pearl Rock after the rising sun illuminated the surface of the island.
gloss: Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
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.
gloss: A lump or cube of ice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
gloss: A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: An Afrikaner.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
gloss: An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Any of several fish:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several fish:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We ordered rock and chips to take away.
gloss: A basketball.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A mistake.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Synonym of stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was easily possible to double the cost of a CB rig just by adding all of the "rocks" necessary to do the job.
gloss: To pelt with rocks; to stone.
pos: verb
examples: Do you chaps mean to say you didn't make Rabbits-Eggs drunk and bribe him to rock King's rooms?
Synonyms: natural mineral aggregate
bedrock
Derived words: abyssal rock
almond rocks
alum rock
Alum Rock
Ayers Rock
azoic rock
Badgerin Rock
Beaver Rock
bedrock
between a rock and a hard place
Big Rock
Blackhall Rocks
Black Rock
Blackrock
Blue Rocks
Bonnie Rock
Bruce Rock
Burran Rock
cap rock
caprock
Carpenter Rocks
Carvel Rock
Castle Rock
Castlerock
Chimney Rock
cock of the rock
cock-of-the-rock
coralline rock
Couta Rocks
Doctors Rocks
Dog Rocks
dolomite rock
duck on a rock
dumb as a box of rocks
dumb as a rock
dumb as rocks
dumber than a box of rocks
dumber than a rock
Dunnrock
Dunn Rock
dyke-rock
Eagle Rock
ear rocks
East Rockingham
Edinburgh rock
Farallon Rock
Flat Rock
Flatrock
fly like a rock
Frog Rock
get one's rocks off
Gibraltar rock
Glenrock
Glen Rock
Gorge Rock
Granite Rock
gray rock method
gritrock
gyprock
Hanging Rock
hard as a rock
hardrock
hit rock bottom
hit the rock
hit the rocks
Holt Rock
honeycomb rock
host rock
igneous rock
Indian paint rock
kick rocks
Kirk Rock
like a cow on a flat rock
like a cow pissing on a flat rock
Lillian Rock
Lion Rock
Lionrock
Little Rock
live rock
liverock
live under a rock
living rock
logging rock
Long Rock
Longrock
look under rocks
mantle rock
meatrock
metamorphic rock
moon rock
Moorine Rock
mudrock
ninja rock
North Rocks
on the rocks
painting rocks
Paint Rock
paint rock
Pawnee Rock
pet rock
Plymouth Rock
pyroclastic rock
Quinns Rocks
rackarock
Red Rock
Red Rocks
rendrock
rimrock
rock-alum
rock alum
rock and rye
rock ape
rock armour
rock armor
rock art
rock badger
Rockbank
rock barnacle
rock bass
rock bee
rockberry
rock blenny
rock borer
rock bottom
rock-bound
rockbound
rock brake
rockbrake
rock broom
rock bun
rockbun
rock bunting
rockburst
rock bush quail
rock butter
rock cake
rock cam
rock candy
rock catchfly
rock catfish
rock cavy
rock cedar
rock centaury
rock chat
rock chestnut oak
rock chuck
rock climber
rock climbing
rock club moss
rock cocaine
rock cockle
rock cock
rock cod
rock conure
rock cork
rock cormorant
Rock County
rock crab
rockcraft
rock cranberry
rock crawler
Rock Creek
rockcress
rockcrusher
rock crystal
rock cycle
Rockdale
rock dassie
rock dormouse
rock dots
röck döts
rock dove
rock drill
rock duck
rock-dumb
rockdumping
rock dust
rock eagle-owl
rock eel
rock elegant)
rock elm (Ulmus thomasii
Rock English
rockery
rockesque
rock face
rock falcon
rockfall
rock fall
Rock Falls
rock fern
Rock Ferry
rock fever
rockfill
rockfinch
rock firefinch
rockfish
Rock Flat
rock flour
rockflow
rock flower
rockfoil
Rock Forest
rock formation
rockfowl
rock frog
rock garden
rock geranium
rock glacier
rock glass
rockglass
rock goat
rock goby
rock goldenrod
rock goose
rock grape
rock greenling
rock grouper
rock grouse
rock guano
rock guenon
rock gunnel
rock gym
Rockhampton
rock happy
rock-hard
rock hard
rock hare
rock hawk
rockhead
rockheaded
rockhearted
rock herring
rock hind
rockhole
rockhopper
rockhopper penguin
rock horned lizard
rock hound
rockhounding
rock house
rock hyrax
rock iguana
Rockingham
rockish
Rock Island
rockist
rock jasmine)
rock jock
rock-jumper
rockjumper
rock kangaroo
rock kelp
rock kestrel (Falco rupicolus
rockland
Rocklands
rock lark
rock larkspur
Rocklea
Rockleigh
rockless
rocklet
Rockley
Rockley Mount
rock licker
rocklike
rock-like
rock lily
rockling
rock lizard
rock lobster
rock louse
rock madwort
rock manakin
rock maple
rock martin
rockmass
rockmeal
rock mechanics
rockmelon
rock milk
rock moss
Rockmount
rock mouse
rock mulching
rockness
Rock of Ages
Rock of Gibraltar
rock oil
rock opossum
rock ousel
rockover
rock oyster
rock paper scissors
rock parakeet
rock parrot
rock partridge
rock penstemon
rock peppler
rock petronia
rockpicker
rockpicking
rock pigeon
rockpile
rock pine
rock pink
rock pipit
rock plant
rock plover
rock pocket mouse
rock poison (Gastrolobium callistachys
rock polypody
rockpool
Rock Port
Rockport
rock pratincole
rock prickleback
rockproof
rock ptarmigan
rock purslane
rock python)
Rock Quarry
rock rabbit
Rock Rapids
rock rat
rock rattlesnake
rock record
rock-ribbed
rock ringtail possum
Rock River
rockrose
rock ruby
Rock Run
rockrunner
rock salmon
rock salt
rock samphire
rock sandpiper
rock sandwort
rock saxifrage
Rocksberg
rockscape
rock scorpion
rock sea bass
rock sea lavender
rock seal
rock sequence
rocks for jocks
rocks glass
rock shag
rock shandy
rock shed
rockshelf
rock shell
rock shelter
rock shrike
rock shrimp
Rockside
rocks in one's head
rock skipper
rock slide
rockslide
rocksnail
rock snail
rock snake
rock snipe
rock snot
rock soap
rock soapwort
rock solid
rock-solid
rock sparrow
rock spider
rockspider
rock spikemoss
rock spiraea
Rocksprings
rock squirrel
rockstar
rock starling
rocksteady
rock-steady
rockstone
rockstop
rock sturgeon
rocksucker
rock sugar
rock sunfish
rock swallow
rock tapaculo
rock tar
rock thrush
Rockton
rock tripe
rock trout
Rock Valley
rock varnish
Rockville
rock violet
rock vole
Rockwall
rock-wallaby
rockwarbler
rockward
rockwards
rock water
rockweed
rockwheel
rock whiting
rockwood
rock wool
rockwool
rockwork
rock wren
rockwren
rocky
Rocky Camp
Rocky Cape
Rocky Creek
Rocky Glen
Rocky Gully
Rocky Hall
Rocky Hills
Rocky Plain
Rocky Point
Rocky River
Rockyview
Round Rock
Saba Rock
Saddle Rock
scholar's rock
schooner on the rocks
Seal Rocks
seaside rock
sedimentary rock
rocks ahead
Seventeen Mile Rocks
Sheetrock
sheetrock
sheet rock
Shiprock
shot rock
Skeleton Rock
sleep like a rock
slickrock
soaprock
Socotra Rock
Soldado Rock
solid as a rock
South Rock
South West Rocks
split on a rock
split rock
steady as a rock
suck rocks
sunken rock
Tarin Rocks
Tarpeian Rock
tent rock
the Rock
The Rock
The Rocks
TV rock
Two Rocks
Victoria Rock
Wallace Rockhole
Water-rock
weeping rock
West Rockhampton
White Rock
Window Rock
woodrock
Yellow Rock
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