rock

1 عمومی:: تخته‌، سنگ‌، جنباندن‌، نوسان‌ كردن‌، تكان‌ نوسانی‌ دادن‌

شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general:: noun stone: The rock struck him on the head. verb pitched: The boat rocked when he stood up.

Simple Definitions

2 general:: In addition to the idioms beginning with ROCK, Also see BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE; ON THE ROCKS; STEADY AS A ROCK.

American Heritage Idioms

3 general::   verb ADV. violently The boat rocked violently in the huge waves. | gently, slightly She gently rocked the baby in her arms. The boat rocked slightly. | back and forth, backwards and forwards, from side to side, to and fro He rocked back and forth in his chair.,   noun hard, stony part of the earth ADJ. hard, solid Solid rock is broken down by weathering. | soft | jagged, rough | smooth | weathered | bare Ahead the vegetation broke into bare rock. | sheer, steep The river runs between walls of sheer rock. | overhanging | liquid, molten | igneous, sedimentary, volcanic | permeable, porous | impermeable QUANT. chunk, lump, piece, slab VERB + ROCK form ROCK + VERB form rocks that formed beneath the sea | jut out A great rock jutted out into the sea. ROCK + NOUN type | formation, structure | strata | ledge, outcrop | face, surface, wall | crevice | debris, fragment, sample | fall The path had been blocked by a rock fall. | crystal, salt | climber, climbing | pool Children were looking for crabs in the rock pools. | art, carvings | garden PHRASES a layer of rock, an outcrop of rock The castle is perched on a massive outcrop of rock. music ADJ. live | country, glam, hard, heavy, indie, progressive, punk ROCK + NOUN album, anthem, CD, music, number, record, song, video | band, group | concert, festival, gig | venue | circuit, scene one of the biggest bands on the rock circuit | drummer, guitarist, musician, singer, vocalist | guitar | hero, legend, star | culture, history PHRASES rock and roll the king of rock and roll

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

4 general:: rock a piece of the hard substance that forms the main surface of the Earth. In British English, rocks are too large to pick up, but in American English, they can either be large or small: • the rocks along the riverbanks stone a small piece of rock, found on the ground or near the surface of the ground. Speakers of American English are more likely to use the word rock than stone: • The children were throwing stones into the water. boulder a large round piece of rock: • She climbed over a few boulders at the edge of the sea. pebble a small smooth stone found especially on a beach or on the bottom of a river: • The beach was covered with smooth white pebbles. fossil a rock which has the shape of an animal or plant that lived many thousands of years ago: • fossils of early reptiles

Longman-Thesaurus

5 general:: rock adjectives solid rock • Steps had been carved out of the solid rock. bare rock (= not covered by soil ) • Here there was only bare rock and gravel. volcanic rock • The fossils are sandwiched between two layers of volcanic rock. molten rock (= rock that is so hot it is liquid ) • Molten rock flowed into these cracks. rock + NOUN a rock formation • There are marvellous views of impressive rock formations. verbs rock forms/is formed • From the texture of the rock we can tell how it was formed. something erodes rock (= it gradually removes the surface of the rock ) • Rainwater drained away, forming streams and rivers that began to erode the rock. rock erodes (away) (= its surface is gradually removed because of the action of water, wind etc ) • The rocks had eroded away over the years. phrases a lump/piece of rock • His leg was trapped under a large lump of rock. a layer of rock • You can see six layers of rock in the cliff. an outcrop of rock (= a mass of rock that sticks up above the ground ) • The gulls nested on a outcrop of rock.

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