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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

... her ears. The ripple of the wave was already round her lips; robbing her of breath. Ah!—might not there be some last great convulsive effort which might dash her on shore, even if it were upon a rock! ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... with," he said. "Now we know. Cleve can head back for Earth tomorrow. Initial supplies will come to about twenty million, I estimate. The rest of us can stay here and really drive these beggars. Get the foundations dug; get the rock down from the hills." ...

— The Terrible Answer • Arthur G. Hill

... miles in thickness, were formed and hung over the face of the globe, obscuring from its darkened surface the piercing beams of the sun. Slowly the earth cooled, until great masses of solid matter, rock as we call it, still penetrated with intense heat, rose to the surface of the boiling sea. Forces of inconceivable magnitude moved through the mass. The outer surface of the globe as it cooled ripped and shrivelled like a withering orange. ...

— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock

... poor families necessary; because necessity compels the mother to get as much time as she can for her work, and a child can rock the cradle. At first we had a cradle; and I rocked the cradle, in great part, during the time that I was writing my first work, that famous MAITRE D'ANGLAIS, which has long been the first book in Europe, as well as in America, for teaching of French people the English language. But we left ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

... to give it a flavour; it cannot make any difference. Do you like it, my dear?" as the spoon scooped out another transparent rock. "Ay, that is right! I had the receipt from my old Aunt Kitty, and nobody ever could ...

— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge

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