Definition of rock''çı in English English dictionary
- Rock
- Nickname of Gibraltar
- Rock
- A male given name transferred from the surname
- Rock
- A topographic surname for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke )
- Rock
- Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Rock
- Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA
- Rock Paper Scissors
- A popular child's game played by using hand signs; frequently used to break ties. Two players face each other with one hand out flat, palm facing up; other hand in a fist strikes the palm three times (often calling out ro! sham! bo! to keep the two players moving in sync), and on the third strike producing one of three hand symbols: Remaining a fist for "rock", a 'peace' sign for "scissors", the hand out flat with palm facing down for "paper". The winner is decided as follows: Rock beats scissors; scissors beat paper; paper beats rock. In the case of a tie (two of the same sign), the process is repeated
- rock
- An Afrikaner
- rock
- To be very favourable or skilful
Chocolate rocks.
- rock
- Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another
Celeste Talbert: She is my rock, my right hand.
- rock
- A boulder or large stone
Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.
- rock
- To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy
Let’s rock!.
- rock
- To move gently back and forth
The empty swing rocked back and forth in the wind.
- rock
- A large hill or island having no vegetation
The location is particularly well known for its Pearl Mountain or Pearl Rock. This huge granite rock is formed by three rounded outcrops that make up Pearl Mountain and has been compared in majesty to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in Australia..
- rock
- to thrill or excite, especially with rock music
Let's rock this joint!.
- rock
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water
The ship crashed on the rocks.
- rock
- To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress
Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
- rock
- The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust
The face of the cliff is solid rock.
- rock
- In poker, an extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands
- rock
- The flax or wool on a distaff
- rock
- To cause to shake or sway violently
Don't rock the boat.
- rock
- A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals
- rock
- to wear or carry something with pride and skill
He's rocking your look hard!.
- rock
- An act of rocking
- rock
- A crystalized lump of crack cocaine
- rock
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker
The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
- rock
- distaff
- rock
- To sway or tilt violently back and forth
The boat rocked at anchor.
- rock
- A lump or cube of ice
I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
- rock
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond
Look at the size of that rock on her finger!.
- rock
- To excel
This band rocks!.
- rock
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes
- rock
- A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length
While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!.
- rock
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals
- rock
- to do something with excitement yet skillfully
I need to rock a piss.
- rock 'n' roll
- Alternative spelling of rock and roll
- rock and roll
- To play [[#Noun|rock and roll]] music
- rock and roll
- Style of music characterized by a basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, drums, and vocals (generally with bass guitar). Generally used to refer to the 1950’s rock, and rock of its style, quite close to swing
- rock and roll
- To start, commence, begin, get moving
Does everyone know what car they're going in? Then let's rock and roll!.
- rock and roll
- An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music (generally from the 1970s–1980s), and heavy metal bearing certain elements of this music, pertaining to unbridled enthusiasm, cynical regard for certain Christian and authoritarian bodies, and attitudes befitting some degree of youthful debauchery. This meaning is sometimes used as an exclamation, in describing traits of certain people, and so on
- rock and roll
- dole
- rock and roll
- Style of vigorous dancing associated with this 1950’s music
- rock and roll
- To have sex
- rock band
- A group of musicians who play rock music
- rock bands
- plural form of rock band
- rock bottom
- The very lowest possible level
Pork belly futures have hit rock bottom.
- rock candy
- a confectionary made by crystallizing sugar around a string
- rock climber
- A person who takes part in rock climbing
- rock climbing
- The sport of scaling rock faces, either with or without ropes and other equipment
- rock cocaine
- The off-white, crystal-like form of crack cocaine
- rock crab
- Cancer irroratus, a crab with large marginal teeth found along the Atlantic coast of North America
- rock crab
- Hemigrapsus sexdentatus, a large-eyed marine crab found off the coast of New Zealand
- rock crabs
- plural form of rock crab
- rock crystal
- clear, colourless form of the silica-based mineral quartz, often called "pure quartz" or "clear quartz"
- rock dove
- A term used of the pigeon species Columba livia. Currently, term rock pigeon is preferred
- rock doves
- plural form of rock dove
- rock face
- An exposed, roughly vertical expanse of rock
- rock group
- A group of musicians who regularly perform rock music together
- rock groups
- plural form of rock group
- rock hard
- With muscles developed and toned to a high degree, especially the muscles of the abdomen
- rock hard
- Having a stiff penis
- rock hard
- As tough or hard as a piece of rock
- rock hound
- A person who collects rocks and minerals from the natural environment as a hobby
- rock lobster
- a crustacean of the family Palinuridae
It wasn’t a rock, it was a rock lobster” (1978) - from the song “Rock Lobster” by the B52s.
- rock maple
- The sugar maple, Acer saccharum
- rock mechanics
- The science that studies the mechanical behaviour of rock
- rock music
- Any of various genres of popular music employing electrical amplification
- rock oil
- naphtha
- rock out
- To enjoy rock music, and dance to it
- rock outed
- Simple past tense and past participle of rock out
- rock outing
- Present participle of rock out
- rock pigeon
- A species of pigeon, Columba livia
- rock pigeon
- A term used in Australia to refer to the native bronzewing pigeons, or bronzewings
- rock pigeons
- plural form of rock pigeon
- rock pipit
- a stocky bird, Anthus petrosus, somewhat smaller than a starling, that breeds on rocky beaches and winters on coastal salt marshes
- rock pipits
- plural form of rock pipit
- rock salmon
- A marketing name for the flesh of the dogfish shark
- rock salt
- The mineral halite
- rock salt
- Coarsely ground common salt
- rock sequence
- A suite of rocks containing a variety of separate strata, with an overall lithology that can be used to interpret the paleoenvironment of deposition over a certain period
- rock sequences
- plural form of rock sequence
- rock shandy
- In Ireland, a soft drink whose constituents vary regionally, typically made by mixing orange soda and red lemonade
- rock shandy
- A glass of this drink
- rock shelter
- A shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff, frequent location of prehistoric archeological site
- rock snot
- Colloquial name for the algae-like organism, didymosphenia geminata
- rock solid
- Physically very solid; very difficult to move
- rock solid
- Very dependable
- rock spider
- Western Australian prison slang for a pedophile/child molester. Rock spiders constitute the lowest rung of inmates in the prison system, and are looked down on (and often mistreated) by all other inmates
- rock spider
- A term used to refer to Boers (Afrikaners) by Rhodesians and English-speaking South Africans
- rock spiders
- plural form of rock spider
- rock steady
- Alternative spelling of rocksteady
- rock sugar
- white sugar that has been crystallized into chunks
- rock the boat
- To disturb the status quo or go against rules or conventions, as in an effort to get attention
I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat.
- rock the house
- To jam at a concert, get down
Who's ready to rock the house?.
- rock up
- To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning
- rock up
- To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement
- rock varnish
- a dark coating on rock surfaces exposed to the atmosphere which grows at only a few micrometers per thousand years; found especially in arid deserts
- rock-and-roll
- Alternative spelling of rock and roll
- rock-band
- Attributive form of rock band
rock-band mentality.
- rock-bottom
- Alternative spelling of rock bottom
She knew in her heart, she had hit rock-bottom this time.
- rock-bottom
- to fall to the lowest possible level
By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.
- rock-dove
- Attributive form of rock dove, noun
- rock-dumb
- Of a person so dumb that his or her intelligence is not appreciably distinguishable from that of a rock; having the quality or characteristic of being as dumb as a rock
- rock-jumper
- Either of two bird species in the passerine family Chaetopidae, endemic to southern Africa
- rock-ribbed
- having rocky cliffs or outcroppings
- rock-ribbed
- obstinately firm and unyielding in one's opinions
- rock-steady
- consistent and dependable in one's behaviour or performance
- rock a boat
- shake a boat back and forth, cause a boat to sway
- rock the boat
- shake the boat sharply from side to side, break the equilibrium; make trouble, upset a stable situation
- rock-solid
- Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard. Freeze it only until firm but not rock solid
- rock
- {v} to shake, reel, move a cradle, quiet
- rock
- {n} a vast stone, protection, defense, distaff
- rock bolt
- (Madencilik) A tensioned rod passing through a bed of rock and anchoring it to the body of rock behind
- rock cycle
- Geology an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion
- rock dove
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A bluish-gray dove (Columba livia) that is indigenous to Eurasia but has been widely established elsewhere including most of North America and that is the ancestor of many domesticated pigeons and of the feral pigeons found in cities and towns throughout most of the world ― called also rock pigeon
- rock out
- (deyim) Listen to or play music to such an extent that the mind begins to lose consiousness and a new, more insane alter ego takes control
- rock paper scissor
- Rock, Paper, Scissors is a common name for a popular two-person hand game. It may also be referred to as Paper, Rock, Scissors, or by other combinations of the three words. The game is often used as a selection method in a similar way to coin flipping or drawing straws to randomly select a person for some purpose. However, unlike truly random selections, it can be played with skill if the game extends over many sessions, as a player can often recognize and exploit the non-random behavior of an opponent
- rock paper scissors
- (Oyunlar) Rock, Paper, Scissors is a common name for a popular two-person hand game. It may also be referred to as Paper, Rock, Scissors, or by other combinations of the three words. The game is often used as a selection method in a similar way to coin flipping or drawing straws to randomly select a person for some purpose. However, unlike truly random selections, it can be played with skill if the game extends over many sessions, as a player can often recognize and exploit the non-random behavior of an opponent
- rock pigeon
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A bluish-gray dove (Columba livia) that is indigenous to Eurasia but has been widely established elsewhere including most of North America and that is the ancestor of many domesticated pigeons and of the feral pigeons found in cities and towns throughout most of the world ― called also rock dove
- rock the boat
- (deyim) Disturb an existing situation
- rock up
- to arrive
- rock up
- to arrive without any prior planning, or specific materials
- rock wool
- Rock wool, also known as stone wool or mineral wool, means fibers made from synthetic or natural minerals or metal oxides. It is an inorganic substance used for insulation and filtering. A common mistake is to believe that fiberglass and ceramic fibers are NOT mineral wools, but they are by virtue of their consisting of minerals or metal oxides
- rock wool
- Inorganic material made into matted fibre, used especially for insulation or soundproofing
- Rock Creek Butte
- A mountain, 2,777 m (9,106 ft) high, in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. It is the highest elevation in the range
- Rock Hudson
- a US film actor who was very good-looking. He made several humorous films with Doris Day, such as Pillow Talk (1959). He was one of the first famous people to die of AIDS (1922-85). orig. Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. born Nov. 17, 1925, Winnetka, Ill., U.S. died Oct. 2, 1985, Beverly Hills, Calif. U.S. film actor. He worked at odd jobs before making his film debut in Fighter Squadron (1948). His manly, wholesome good looks made him a popular star in Douglas Sirk melodramas such as Magnificent Obsession (1954) and All That Heaven Allows (1955), and he displayed a flair for comedy in a series of films with Doris Day, including Pillow Talk (1959), Come September (1961), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). He later starred in the television series McMillan and Wife (1971-77). His death from AIDS greatly increased awareness of the disease
- Rock River
- A river rising in southeast Wisconsin and flowing about 459 km (285 mi) generally south and southwest to the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois. River, north-central U.S. It rises in southeastern Wisconsin and flows across the northwestern corner of Illinois, emptying into the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Ill. ; it is 300 mi (480 km) long. The bottomlands along the lower course are subject to spring floods and require levee protection
- Rock of Ages
- Jesus Christ
- Rock of Gibraltar
- narrow rocky peninsula at the southern tip of Spain that has been under British control since 1704
- rock
- A rock is a piece of rock that is small enough for you to pick up. She bent down, picked up a rock and threw it into the trees
- rock
- A player who plays very tight, not very creatively He raises only with the best hands A real rock is fairly predictable - if he raises you on the end, you can throw away just about anything but the nuts
- rock
- Fig
- rock
- A naturally occurring material composed of one mineral or, more often, a combination of minerals naturally hardened and consolidated into a solid mass
- rock
- A quack; so called from one Rock, who was the Holloway of Queen Anne's reign Oh, when his nerves had once received a shock, Sir Isaac Newton might have gone to Rock Crabbe: Borough The Ladies' Rock A crag in Scotland under the castle rock of Stirling, where ladies used to witness tournaments In the castle hill is a hollow called The Valley about a square acre in extent, used for justings and tournaments On the south side of the valley is a small rocky pyramidical mount, called The Ladies' Hill or Rock, where the ladies sat to witness the spectacle - Nimmo: History of Stirlingshire, p 282 People of the Rock The inhabitants of Hejaz or Arabia Petraea Captain Rock A fictitious name assumed by the leader of the Irish insurgents in 1822
- rock
- An exclamation to let climbers and other folks below you know that an object is hurtling through space in their general direction Though it most often is, this object need not necessarily be a rock - it could be a dropped piece of protection, a loose water bottle, your mother-in-law, etc - the point being to alert those below to imminent danger
- rock
- Any naturally formed aggregate or mass of mineral forming an essential part of the earth's crust; stone
- rock
- to disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to disturb or distress
- rock
- A player who plays an extremely tight, patient game is a rock Rocks don't create a lot of action, and when they enter a pot, more often than not they're in as a favorite This is a decent strategy at some tables (especially at a table full of maniacs) But good players with more varied strategies will eventually get the best of a real rock
- rock
- To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair
- rock
- See under Bass
- rock
- If an explosion or an earthquake rocks a building or an area, it causes the building or area to shake. You can also say that the building or area rocks. Three people were injured yesterday when an explosion rocked one of Britain's best known film studios As the buildings rocked under heavy shell-fire, he took refuge in the cellars
- rock
- material found underneath and onto of the earth surface
- rock
- cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently
- rock
- pitching dangerously to one side a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- rock
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- rock
- A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning
- rock
- To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter
- rock
- A mass of mineral matter which may or may not be lithified
- rock
- Crack
- rock
- If you have an alcoholic drink such as whisky on the rocks, you have it with ice cubes in it. a Scotch on the rocks. = with ice
- rock
- Curling Stone
- rock
- Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock
- rock and roll
- 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 "
- rock and roll
- This form of music appealed to American youth during the 1950s It was an original product of a heterogeneous American society in that it combined black rhythm and blues with white country music Its acceptance and success reflected the demographic changes that had occurred since 1940
- rock and roll
- Popular music that was born from jazz and the blues It has a strong beat and a melody that repeats often
- rock and roll
- A lip trick where the athlete rides up a wall, balances on the lip with the board perpendicular to the coping, and re-enters the pipe without any rotation
- rock art
- Ancient or prehistoric drawing, painting, or similar work on or of stone. Rock art includes pictographs (drawings or paintings), petroglyphs (carvings or inscriptions), engravings (incised motifs), petroforms (rocks laid out in patterns), and geoglyphs (ground drawings). The ancient animals, tools, and human activities depicted often help shed light on daily life in the distant past, though the images are frequently symbolic. Sometimes a single site may have art that dates from several centuries. Rock art may have played a role in prehistoric religion, possibly in connection with ancient myths or the activities of shamans. Important sites occur in southern Africa, Europe, North America, and Australia
- rock back and forth
- swing backwards and forwards
- rock bass
- game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
- rock bit
- a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
- rock bottom
- the absolute bottom
- rock brake
- dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns
- rock candy
- A hard confection that is made by cooling a concentrated sugar syrup into large clear crystals around a piece of string or a stick
- rock candy
- sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string hard stick bright-colored stick candy typically peppermint flavored
- rock climbing
- the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)
- rock concert
- a performance of rock music
- rock cress
- any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis
- rock crystal
- Colorless transparent quartz, used in optical instruments and as a semiprecious gemstone. Transparent variety of the silica mineral quartz that is valued for its clarity and total lack of colour or flaws. Rock crystal formerly was used extensively as a gemstone, but it has been replaced by glass and plastic; rhinestones originally were quartz pebbles found in the Rhine River. The optical properties of rock crystal led to its use in lenses and prisms; its piezoelectric properties (see piezoelectricity) are used to control the oscillation of electrical circuits
- rock crystal
- The specimens which enclose hair-like substances are called Thetis's hair-stone, Venus's hair-stone, Venus's pencils, Cupid's net, Cupid's arrows, etc
- rock dove
- A bird (Columba livia) native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia but widely distributed elsewhere, having variously colored plumage with iridescent markings on the neck. It is the common pigeon seen in cities and frequently domesticated. Also called rock pigeon
- rock dove
- pale gray Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
- rock flour
- Finely ground rock particles produced by glacial abrasion. Also called glacier meal
- rock garden
- a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants
- rock garden
- A table populated with rocks I never play there anymore, it's a real rock garden
- rock garden
- A rock garden is a garden which consists of rocks with small plants growing among them. a rockery
- rock geranium
- plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems
- rock glacier
- Tonguelike body of coarse rock fragments, found above the timberline on mountains, that moves slowly down a valley. The rock material usually has fallen from the valley walls and may contain large boulders; it resembles the material left at the end (terminus) of a true glacier. A rock glacier may be 100 ft (30 m) deep and nearly a mile (1.5 km) long
- rock goat
- mountain goat, wild goat
- rock group
- a band of musicians who play rock-'n'-roll music
- rock gunnel
- slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- rock hind
- found around rocky coasts or on reefs
- rock music
- type of loud music usually using electric guitars
- rock oil
- Petroleum
- rock pink
- pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
- rock pool
- A rock pool is a small pool between rocks on the edge of the sea. a small pool of water between rocks by the sea American Equivalent: tide pool
- rock solid
- {s} completely stable and solid; unlikely to break
- rock to sleep
- move back and forth until someone falls asleep, lull to sleep in a rocking crib
- rock wren
- wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico short-tailed bird resembling a wren
- rock'n'roll
- see rock and roll
- rock-
- Any naturally formed aggregate or mass of mineral forming an essential part of the earth's crust; stone
- rock-
- Curling Stone
- rock-
- Perhaps the most popular form of 20th-century music, a combination of African-American rhythms, urban blues, folk and country music of the rural South It has developed since the early 1950s into hundreds of subgenres, each with its own audience, record labels and radio formats
- rock-
- An aggregate of one or more minerals, or a body of undifferentiated mineral matter or solid organic material
- rock-
- A hard, solid mass composed of one or more minerals or other compounds
- rock-
- hard stick bright-colored stick candy typically peppermint flavored
- rock-
- a solid mixtures of minerals and chemicals, the hard part of the earths crust
- rock-
- A quack; so called from one Rock, who was the Holloway of Queen Anne's reign Oh, when his nerves had once received a shock, Sir Isaac Newton might have gone to Rock Crabbe: Borough The Ladies' Rock A crag in Scotland under the castle rock of Stirling, where ladies used to witness tournaments In the castle hill is a hollow called The Valley about a square acre in extent, used for justings and tournaments On the south side of the valley is a small rocky pyramidical mount, called The Ladies' Hill or Rock, where the ladies sat to witness the spectacle - Nimmo: History of Stirlingshire, p 282 People of the Rock The inhabitants of Hejaz or Arabia Petraea Captain Rock A fictitious name assumed by the leader of the Irish insurgents in 1822
- rock-bottom
- a rock-bottom price is as low as it can possibly be
- rock-like
- Something that is rock-like is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change. his rock-like integrity