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Rock

noun

1.

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter. Synonym: stone.

2.

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust. Synonym: stone. "Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

3.

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984). Synonym: John Rock.

4.

(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable. "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"

5.

Hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint). Synonym: rock candy.

6.

A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western. Synonyms: rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music.

7.

Pitching dangerously to one side. Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt.

verb

(past & past part. rocked;pres. part. rocking)

1.

Move back and forth or sideways. Synonyms: shake, sway. "The tall building swayed" , "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

2.

Cause to move back and forth. Synonym: sway. "Rock the baby" , "The wind swayed the trees gently"

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"Rock" Quotes from Famous Books

... rebuke to Wordsworth if some friend had written to him: 'I regret most sincerely to say that the dragon and the golden spear had all vanished before nine o'clock'? So, again, of Hawthorne's face on a rock. The very beauty of such appearances is ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... running like a mad tarantella through her brain. Her thoughts were in a whirl. But she clung to the thought of Everard as a shipwrecked mariner clings to a rock. He yet lived; he had not passed out of her reach. It might be he was even then at Khanmulla a few short miles away. All her doubt of him, all evil suspicions, vanished in a great and overwhelming longing for his presence. It suddenly ...

— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell

... opened its fire on us. We were obliged to haul off, but not before we had fired several shot at both lugger and battery. The latter again fired and knocked away our mizzen top-gallant mast. We bore up and gave it a broadside, and could see pieces of rock near it fly in all directions. The signal was made to recall us, and soon after we rejoined the squadron. For more than two months had we been tantalized by cruising in this monotonous manner, with little hope of the sailing of ...

— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman

... mile or two to starboard, and seeming within a stone's throw, is the land we have come so far to seek. A wall of rock, the northern cliff of New Zealand rises abrupt and imposing from the sea, broken here and there into groups of pillared, pinnacled islets, nobly irregular in outline, piled and scarred, indented and projected, uplifted and magnificent. ...

— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay

... proceed south of Prairie du Chien, the features of the Mississippi river gradually change; the bluffs decrease in number and in height, until you descend to Rock Island, below which point they are rarely to be met with. The country on each side now is chiefly composed of variegated rolling prairies, with a less proportion of timber. To describe these prairies would be difficult; that ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

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