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rock

/ rock /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
pitching dangerously to one side
Type of:
lurch pitch pitching
Derived:
careen wobble shift tilt cant
noun Sense 2
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
"he threw a rock at me"
Type of:
natural object
Kinds of:
achondrite bedrock boulder bowlder calculus
Derived:
stone lapidate
noun Sense 3
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
"he was her rock during the crisis"
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"--Gospel According to Matthew"
Type of:
good person
noun Sense 4
United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
Type of:
gynecologist gynaecologist woman's doctor
noun Sense 5
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth''s crust
"that mountain is solid rock"
"stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
Type of:
material stuff
Kinds of:
quartzite road metal sedimentary rock sial sima
Derived:
stone lapidate
verb Sense 6
move back and forth or sideways
"the ship was rocking"
"the tall building swayed"
"She rocked back and forth on her feet"
Type of:
move back and forth
Kinds of:
roll nutate swag totter
Derived:
wag waggle shake careen sway
Verb group:
sway
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
verb Sense 7
cause to move back and forth
"rock the cradle"
"rock the baby"
"the wind swayed the trees gently"
Type of:
move displace
Derived:
careen sway tilt rocker
Verb group:
sway shake
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
noun Sense 8
hard stick bright-colored stick candy typically peppermint flavored
Type of:
candy
noun Sense 9
a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western
"rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock''n''roll."
Type of:
popular music popular music genre
Kinds of:
heavy metal progressive rock art rock psychedelic rock acid rock
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
9
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
56
Times Searched
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lurch pitch pitching natural object achondrite bedrock boulder bowlder calculus good person gynecologist gynaecologist