Definition von rock'çı im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Rock
- Nickname of Gibraltar
- Rock
- A male given name transferred from the surname
- Rock
- Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA
- 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 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
- to do something with excitement yet skillfully
I need to rock a piss.
- rock
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals
- 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
- An Afrikaner
- rock
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes
- rock
- To be very favourable or skilful
Chocolate rocks.
- rock
- To excel
This band rocks!.
- rock
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond
Look at the size of that rock on her finger!.
- rock
- A lump or cube of ice
I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
- rock
- To sway or tilt violently back and forth
The boat rocked at anchor.
- rock
- distaff
- rock
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker
The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
- rock
- A crystalized lump of crack cocaine
- rock
- An act of rocking
- rock
- to wear or carry something with pride and skill
He's rocking your look hard!.
- 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 cause to shake or sway violently
Don't rock the boat.
- rock
- The flax or wool on a distaff
- 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
- In poker, an extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands
- 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
- 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
- To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress
Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
- 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 'n' roll
- Alternative spelling of rock and roll
- rock and roll
- To play [[#Noun|rock and roll]] music
- rock and roll
- To have sex
- 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
- Style of vigorous dancing associated with this 1950’s music
- 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
- dole
- 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 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
- Hemigrapsus sexdentatus, a large-eyed marine crab found off the coast of New Zealand
- rock crab
- Cancer irroratus, a crab with large marginal teeth found along the Atlantic coast of North America
- 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
- As tough or hard as a piece of rock
- rock hard
- Having a stiff penis
- rock hard
- With muscles developed and toned to a high degree, especially the muscles of the abdomen
- 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 term used in Australia to refer to the native bronzewing pigeons, or bronzewings
- rock pigeon
- A species of pigeon, Columba livia
- 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
- Coarsely ground common salt
- rock salt
- The mineral halite
- 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
- A glass of this drink
- rock shandy
- In Ireland, a soft drink whose constituents vary regionally, typically made by mixing orange soda and red lemonade
- 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
- Very dependable
- rock solid
- Physically very solid; very difficult to move
- rock spider
- A term used to refer to Boers (Afrikaners) by Rhodesians and English-speaking South Africans
- 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 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 work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement
- rock up
- To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning
- 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
- 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-bottom
- Alternative spelling of rock bottom
She knew in her heart, she had hit rock-bottom this time.
- 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
- obstinately firm and unyielding in one's opinions
- rock-ribbed
- having rocky cliffs or outcroppings
- 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
- {n} a vast stone, protection, defense, distaff
- rock
- {v} to shake, reel, move a cradle, quiet
- 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 without any prior planning, or specific materials
- rock up
- to arrive
- rock wool
- Inorganic material made into matted fibre, used especially for insulation or soundproofing
- 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 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 Island
- A city of northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River adjacent to Moline. It was the site of a Union prison during the Civil War. Population: 40,552
- 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
- To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter
- 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 disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to disturb or distress
- rock
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- rock
- Type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies, often with a blues element Based on the pentatonic scales in progressions
- rock
- When something rocks or when you rock it, it moves slowly and regularly backwards and forwards or from side to side. His body rocked from side to side with the train She sat on the porch and rocked the baby
- rock
- Any naturally formed aggregate or mass of mineral forming an essential part of the earth's crust; stone
- 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
- (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"
- rock
- when in natural beds
- rock
- Aggregate of minerals that forms an appreciable part of the lithosphere
- rock
- 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
- pitching dangerously to one side
- rock
- Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc
- 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
- The striped bass
- rock
- material found underneath and onto of the earth surface
- 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
- Rock is loud music with a strong beat that is usually played and sung by a small group of people using instruments such as electric guitars and drums. a rock concert. famous rock stars
- 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
- {i} stone; rock music; back and forth movement, shaking; diamond (Slang)
- rock
- pitching dangerously to one side 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
- rock
- An combination of one or more minerals
- rock
- A naturally formed aggregate of usually inorganic materials from within the Earth
- rock
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker (with reference to ore etc)
- rock
- United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
- rock
- Like "jazz," a broad umbrella term Rock is a form of popular music, usually played on electronically-amplified instruments, with a heavily accented beat
- rock 'n' 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
- Popular music that was born from jazz and the blues It has a strong beat and a melody that repeats often
- rock bottom
- approval A rock-bottom price or level is a very low one, mainly in advertisements. What they do offer is a good product at a rock-bottom price. to become as unhappy, unpleasant, or unsuccessful as it is possible to be
- 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 climber
- A rock climber is a person whose hobby or sport is climbing cliffs or large rocks
- rock concert
- show put on by a rock band
- rock concert
- a performance of rock music
- rock cork
- rock leather, type of light-colored asbestos having interlaced fibers and its texture resembling cork
- rock crab
- A crab found along rocky coasts, especially one of the genus Cancer, whose hindmost pair of legs is adapted for running
- 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
- a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment
- rock dove
- type of bird, type of pigeon
- 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 drill
- a drill for penetrating rock
- rock elm
- tall widely distributed elm of eastern North America
- rock flour
- {i} finely powdered rock produced as a result of glacial erosion or by artificial grinding
- 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 hopper
- small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand
- rock hound
- {i} (Informal) geologist; person whose hobby is to collect rocks and minerals or fossils
- rock hyrax
- hyrax that lives in rocky areas
- rock island
- a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the Civil War
- rock opera
- albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art; first appeared in the 1960s
- rock plant
- plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden
- rock polypody
- chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
- rock python
- very large python of tropical and southern Africa
- rock rattlesnake
- mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest
- rock salmon
- any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food
- rock shaft
- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft
- rock staff
- An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge
- rock wallaby
- slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
- rock wallaby
- Any of several small agile wallabies, chiefly of the genus Petrogale, that live in rocky areas and have thick-soled feet and a slender tail
- rock wool
- a light fibrous material used as an insulator
- rock'n'roll
- {i} rock and roll, strong rhythmic popular music that evolved from jazz and the blues
- rock-
- The curling stone
- rock-
- United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
- rock-
- A hard, solid mass composed of one or more minerals or other compounds
- 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-
- Crack
- rock-
- A naturally formed aggregate of usually inorganic materials from within the Earth
- rock-
- Curling Stone
- 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-
- move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
- 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-
- An combination of one or more minerals
- rock-
- n a consolidated, relatively hard, naturally formed mass of mineral matter that generally composes a part of the Earth
- 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-bottom
- a rock-bottom price is as low as it can possibly be
- rock-hard
- Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed. During the dry season the land is rock hard