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Rock can be a verb or a noun.
rock used as a verb:
- & To move gently back and forth.
"Rock the baby to sleep." - To cause to shake or sway violently.
"Don't rock the boat." - To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
"The boat rocked at anchor." - & To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker (with reference to ore etc)
"The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection." - to disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to disturb or distress
"Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal." - To excel.
"This band rocks!" - To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
"Let’s rock!" - To be very favourable or skilful.
"Chocolate rocks." - to thrill or excite, especially with rock music
"Let's rock this joint!" - to do something with excitement yet skillfully
"I need to rock a piss." - to wear or carry something with pride and skill.
"I rock a bald head."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
rock used as a noun:
- 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." - A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
"The ship crashed on the rocks." - A boulder or large stone.
"Some fool has thrown a rock through my window." - A large hill or island having no vegetation.
"Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl." - Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
"Look at the size of that rock on her finger!" - A lump or cube of ice.
"I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please." - 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!" - A crystalized lump of crack cocaine.
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- An Afrikaner.
- In poker, an extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- An act of rocking.
- A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
- distaff
- The flax or wool on a distaff.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is rock?
- Verb usage: Rock the baby to sleep.
- Verb usage: The empty swing rocked back and forth in the wind.
- Verb usage: Don't rock the boat.
- Verb usage: The boat rocked at anchor.
- Verb usage: The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
- Verb usage: Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
- Verb usage: This band rocks!
- Verb usage: Let’s rock!
- Verb usage: Chocolate rocks.
- Verb usage: Let's rock this joint!
- Verb usage: I need to rock a piss.
- Verb usage: I rock a bald head.
- Verb usage: He's rocking your look hard!
- Noun usage: The face of the cliff is solid rock.
- Noun usage: The ship crashed on the rocks.
- Noun usage: Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.
- Noun usage: Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.
- Noun usage: Look at the size of that rock on her finger!
- Noun usage: I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
- Noun usage: While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rock are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of rock, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
