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Defenition of the word rock

    • Defenition of the word rock

      • Any aggregate of minerals that makes up part of the earth's crust. It may be unconsolidated, such as sand, clay, or mud, or consolidated, such as granite, limestone, or coal.
      • To move gently back and forth.
      • A music style characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
      • rock or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"
      • pitching dangerously to one side
      • a lump of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
      • material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
      • move back and forth, like a ship
      • a type of dance music originating in the 1950s; a blend of rhythm-and-blues with country-and-western
      • hard stick bright-colored stick candy typically peppermint flavored
      • 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."
      • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
      • (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
      • United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
      • 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"
      • move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
      • cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently"
      • a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
      • hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
      • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
      • (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
      • move back and forth or sideways
      • cause to move back and forth

    Synonyms for the word rock

      • astound
      • careen
      • cradle
      • gem
      • gemstone
      • jewel
      • move up and down
      • pitch
      • rock 'n' roll
      • rock and roll
      • rock candy
      • rock music
      • shake
      • shock
      • stone
      • stun
      • sway
      • swing
      • tilt

    Similar words in the rock

      • rock
      • rock's
      • rocked
      • rockefeller
      • rockefeller's
      • rocker
      • rocker's
      • rockers
      • rocketed
      • rocketing
      • rocketry
      • rocketry's
      • rockets
      • rockford
      • rockford's
      • rockier
      • rockies
      • rockiest
      • rockiness
      • rockiness's
      • rocking
      • rockne
      • rockne's
      • rockwell
      • rockwell's
      • rocky
      • rocky's

    Meronymys for the word rock

      • mineral

    Hyponyms for the word rock

      • achondrite
      • acid rock
      • aphanite
      • art rock
      • bedrock
      • boulder
      • bowlder
      • calc-tufa
      • calculus
      • caliche
      • chondrite
      • clastic rock
      • claystone
      • concretion
      • conglomerate
      • crushed rock
      • crystal
      • crystallization
      • dolomite
      • emery rock
      • emery stone
      • fieldstone
      • gravel
      • greisen
      • heavy metal
      • heavy metal music
      • igneous rock
      • intrusion
      • limestone
      • magma
      • marble
      • matrix
      • metamorphic rock
      • nutate
      • outcrop
      • outcropping
      • pebble
      • petrifaction
      • progressive rock
      • psychedelic rock
      • pudding stone
      • pumice
      • pumice stone
      • punk
      • punk rock
      • quartzite
      • road metal
      • rock outcrop
      • roll
      • sedimentary rock
      • shingling
      • sial
      • sill
      • sima
      • stepping stone
      • swag
      • tor
      • totter
      • tufa
      • wall rock
      • whin
      • whinstone
      • xenolith

    Hypernyms for the word rock

      • candy
      • confect
      • displace
      • good person
      • gynaecologist
      • gynecologist
      • jazz
      • lurch
      • material
      • move
      • move back and forth
      • natural object
      • pitch
      • pitching
      • popular music
      • popular music genre
      • stuff
      • woman's doctor

    Idioms for the word rock

      • between a rock and a hard place
      • dumb as rocks
      • get one's rocks off
      • on the rocks
      • rock bottom
      • rock crystal
      • rock dove
      • Rock English
      • rock garden
      • rock hard
      • Rock of Ages
      • rock pigeon
      • rock rabbit
      • rock salt
      • rock scorpion
      • see rocks ahead
      • steady as a rock
      • sunken rock

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