Rock

[rɒk] or [rɑk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) pitching dangerously to one side.

(noun.) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; 'he threw a rock at me'.

(noun.) (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.

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

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) move back and forth or sideways; 'the ship was rocking'; 'the tall building swayed'; 'She rocked back and forth on her feet'.

(verb.) cause to move back and forth; 'rock the cradle'; 'rock the baby'; 'the wind swayed the trees gently'.

手打:蒙塔古--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) See Roc.

(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.

(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.

(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

錄入:温思罗普

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Stone (of large size).

v. a. Move backward and forward (as something that rests on a support).

v. n. Reel, totter, oscillate, move backward and forward.

手打:奥拉夫

解釋/意思:

v.t. to move backward and forward: to lull or quiet.—v.i. to be moved backward and forward to reel.—ns. Rock′er the curved support on which a cradle or rocking-chair rocks: a rocking-horse or chair: a mining cradle; Rock′-cam a cam keyed to a rock-shaft; Rock′ing a swaying backward and forward: the abrading of a copper plate with a rocker preparatory to mezzo-tinting: the motion by which the design on a steel mill is transferred to a copper cylinder; Rock′ing-beam an oscillating beam in an automatic transmitter; Rock′ing-chair a chair mounted on rockers; Rock′ing-horse the figure of a horse of wood or other material mounted on rockers for children: a hobby-horse; Rock′ing-pier a pier fastened by a movable joint so as to allow it to rock slightly; Rock′ing-stone a logan or large mass of rock so finely poised as to move backward and forward with the slightest impulse; Rock′ing-tree in weaving the axle from which the lay of a loom is suspended; Rock′-shaft in steam-engines a shaft that oscillates instead of revolving.—adj. Rock′y disposed to rock: tipsy.

n. a large mass of stone: (geol.) a natural deposit of sand earth or clay: that which has the firmness of a rock foundation support defence: (Scot.) a distaff: a hard sweetmeat.—v.t. to throw stones at.—ns. Rock′-al′um alum stone; Rock′-away a four-wheeled North American pleasure-carriage; Rock′-bad′ger a ground-squirrel of North America; Rock′-bās′in a lacustrine hollow in a rock excavated by glacier-ice; Rock′-bass a centrarchoid fish the goggle-eye; Rock′-bird a cock of the rock.—adj. Rock′-bound hemmed in by rocks.—ns. Rock′-break′er a machine for breaking stones for road-metal; Rock′-butt′er an impure alum efflorescence of a butter-like consistency found oozing from some alum slates; Rock′-can′dy pure sugar in large crystals: candy-sugar; Rock′-cist a plant of the genus Helianthemum; Rock′-cook the small-mouthed wrasse; Rock′-cork mountain cork a variety of asbestos; Rock′-crab a crab found at rocky sea-bottoms.—adj. Rock′-crowned surmounted with rocks.—ns. Rock′-crys′tal the finest and purest quartz the name being generally applied however only to crystals in which the six-sided prism is well developed; Rock′-dol′phin the sea-scorpion; Rock′-dove the rock-pigeon or blue-rock; Rock′-drill a machine-drill worked by steam &c.; Rock′-eel a fish of the family Xiphidiontid; Rock′-elm an American elm; Rock′er the rock-dove; Rock′ery Rock′work a mound made with pieces of rock earth &c. for the cultivation of ferns &c.; Rock′-fē′ver intermittent fever; Rock′-fire in pyrotechny a composition of resin sulphur nitre regulus of antimony and turpentine burning slowly; Rock′-fish a name applied to various different varieties of wrasse the striped bass black goby &c.; Rock′-goat an ibex; Rock′-hawk the merlin; Rock′-head bed-rock; Rock′-hop′per a curl-crested penguin; Rock′ie (Scot.) the rock-lintie or twite; Rock′iness; Rock′-leath′er rock-cork; Rock′-lil′y a tropical American cryptogamous plant: a white-flowered Australian orchid; Rock′-lim′pet a limpet which adheres to rocks; Rock′ling a genus of fishes of the cod family Gadid of which several species frequent the British seas; Rock′-lin′tie (Scot.) the twite: the Rock′-lark; Rock′-man′ikin a rock-bird; Rock′-moss lichen which yields archil; Rock′-oil petroleum; Rock′-ou′sel the ring-ousel; Rock′-oys′ter an oyster-like bivalve; Rock′-pi′geon a pigeon inhabiting rocks and caves: the sand-pigeon; Rock′-pip′it the British tit-lark.—n.pl. Rock′-plants a term applied in gardening to a very miscellaneous group of plants which by their habit of growth are adapted to adorn rockeries.—ns. Rock′-plov′er the rock-snipe; Rock′-rabb′it a hyrax; Rock′-rose a plant of either of the genera Cistus and Helianthemum of the rock-rose family (Cistace); Rock′-ru′by a ruby-red garnet; Rock′-salm′on the coal-fish: an amber-fish; Rock′-salt salt in solid form; Rock′-ser′pent a venomous Indian serpent allied to the cobra; Rock′-slāt′er a wood-louse; Rock′-snake a python or anaconda; Rock′-snipe the purple sandpiper; Rock′-soap a deep-black mineral used for crayons consisting of silica alumina peroxide of iron and water; Rock′-sparr′ow a finch: the ring-sparrow; Rock′-star′ling the rock-ousel; Rock′-swift the white-throated rock-swift of North America; Rock′-tar petroleum; Rock′-tem′ple a temple hewn out of the solid rock; Rock′-thrush any bird of the genus Monticola or Petrocincla; Rock′-tripe lichens of the genus Umbilicaria; Rock′-trout the common American brook-trout: sea-trout; Rock′-vī′olet an alga growing on moist rocks in the Alps; Rock′-war′bler a small Australian bird; Rock′-win′kle a periwinkle; Rock′-wood ligniform asbestos; Rock′work (archit.) masonry in imitation of masses of rock: a rockery; Rock′-wren a wren which frequents rocks.—adj. Rock′y full of rocks: resembling a rock: hard: unfeeling.

n. a distaff.—n. Rock′ing an evening party in the country.

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