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An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
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Rocuronium.
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A formation of minerals, specifically:
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A large hill or island having no vegetation.
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Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.
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Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
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A lump or cube of ice.
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I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
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A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
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While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!
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A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
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An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
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An Afrikaner.
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An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
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Any of several fish:
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A basketball.
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Yo homie, pass the rock!
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(rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
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A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
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An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
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To move gently back and forth.
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Rock the baby to sleep.
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To cause to shake or sway violently.
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Don't rock the boat.
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To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
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The boat rocked at anchor.
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(of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
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The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
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To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
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Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
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To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
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To make love to or have sex with.
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To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
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Let’s rock!
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To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
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Chocolate rocks.
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To thrill or excite, especially with rock music
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Let's rock this joint!
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To do something with excitement yet skillfully
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I need to rock a piss.
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To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
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Distaff.
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The flax or wool on a distaff.
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Money.
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Testicles.
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Crack cocaine.
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You seem a bit out of it lately, have you been smoking rocks again?
Examples of rocks in a Sentence
If they didn't own the ore mines, they'd be using rocks to fight.
The rocks have not life, and they cannot think.
Monstrous gray rocks jutted up from the earth and found themselves entwined with honeysuckle and briar vines.
They parked behind rocks, away from the direction of their approach, and immediately saw a nearly invisible path upward.
It crossed her mind that he might trip on the mossy rocks, but he crossed the creek with sure steps.
No, humans do not eat rocks.
She lay hidden among some rocks, and nothing could make her stir.
I saw something red up there in the rocks.
Cassie shrank back against the rocks, hoping the Indians wouldn't look up.
He took her hand and led her across the camp, heading for a jumble of rocks.
On the other side of the rocks, water sprang from the ground and spilled off a ledge into a large blue pool.
At the end of the pool, it seeped back into the ground between some more rocks.
He stooped and selected several rocks.
Her eyes went to the rocks.
Instead she crossed to the full bar and traded the champagne for a triple shot of whiskey on the rocks.
She darted behind the nearby rocks.
Large rocks had been stacked, forming an outside wall that made a room under an overhanging cliff.
There was no shortage of rocks on the mountain.
Stay away from the rocks.
From the 6th century onwards he was looked upon as one of the chief poets and musicians of antiquity, the inventor or perfecter of the lyre, who by his music and singing was able not only to charm the wild beasts, but even to draw the trees and rocks from their places, and to arrest the rivers in their course.
The Cenomanian rocks of Bohemia have yielded remains of a sub-tropical flora which has been compared with that existing at present in Australia.
He formed a comprehensive theory of the variations of climate with latitude and season, and was convinced of the necessity of a circulation of water between the sea and rivers, though, like Plato, he held that this took place by water rising from the sea through crevices in the rocks, losing it .s dissolved salts in the process.
After this there is a considerable gap before New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Sumatra and the vast multitude of smaller islands descending in size by regular gradations to mere rocks.
The geological structure and the mineral composition of the rocks are often the chief causes determining the character of the land forms of a region.
Thus the scenery of a limestone country depends on the solubility and permeability of the rocks, leading to the typical Karst-formations of caverns, swallowholes and underground stream courses, with the contingent phenomena of dry valleys and natural bridges.
The indirect geographical elements, which, as a rule, act with and intensify the direct, are mainly climatic; the prevailing winds, rainfall, mean and extreme temperatures of every locality depending on the arrangement of land and sea and of land forms. Climate thus guided affects the weathering of rocks, and so determines the kind and arrangement of soil.
Vegetation of all sorts acts in a similar way, either in forming soil and assisting in breaking up rocks, in filling up shallow lakes, and even, like the mangrove, in reclaiming wide stretches of land from the sea.
Phosphatic beds, supposed to have had a coprolitic origin, are found in the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada.
Such crystals occur either in cavities in mineral-veins and in granitic rocks, or as a lining in agate geodes.
Much fine amethyst comes from Russia, especially from near Mursinka in the Ekaterinburg district, where it occurs in drusy cavities in granitic rocks.
It is lowest in November, and rocks, shallows, and the remains of old dams then render it almost unnavigable.
Ungava includes much of the lower portion of Labrador, with a rim of recent marine deposits along its western coast, but the interior has the usual character of low rocky hills of Archean rocks, especially granite and gneiss, with a long band of little disturbed iron-bearing rocks, resembling the Animikie, or Upper Huronian of the Lake Superior region, near its eastern side.
There is a foundation of schists and crystalline rocks upon which rests a series of sandstones.
Free or native sulphur, known also as "virgin sulphur," occurs in connexion with volcanoes and in certain stratified rocks in several modes, viz.
An important zone of sulphur-bearing Miocene rocks occurs on the east side of the Apennines, constituting a great part of the province of Forli and part of Pesaro.
A good deal of the seaboard is dangerous by reason of the sharp rocks which lie near the surface.
The Moa or Makona river is a fine stream of considerable volume, but its course is perpetually interrupted by rocks and rapids.
The Coleoptera can be traced back farther in time than any other order of insects with complete transformations, if the structures that have been described from the Carboniferous rocks of Germany are really elytra.
In the Triassic rocks of Switzerland remains of weevils (Curculionidae) occur, a family which is considered by many students the most specialized of the order.
Seen in front, its white face, striped with black, and broad black gorget attract attention as it sits, often motionless, on the rocks; while in flight the white of the lower part of the back and white band across the wings are no less conspicuous even at a distance.
Rocks regarded as representing the Huronian system appear also in Finland, in N.W.
In Poland the rocks of these periods are met with in the Kielce Mountains, and in Podolia in the deeper ravines.
From Esthonia these rocks extend N.E.
The Arunta hold that the spirits of kangaroos are expelled by human blood from certain rocks.
The Falkland Islands consist entirely, so far as is known, of the older Palaeozoic rocks, Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian, slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted, in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone, and on the ridges hardened sandstone passing into the conspicuous white quartzites.
There do not seem to be any minerals of value, and the rocks are not such as to indicate any probability of their discovery.
The dark bituminous layers of clay slate, which occur intercalated among the quartzites, have led, here as elsewhere, to the hope of coming upon a seam of coal, but it is contrary to experience that coal of any value should be found in rocks of that age.
In 1866 a submarine volcano near the islet of Olosenga was the scene of a violent commotion, discharging rocks and mud to a height of 2000 ft.
Many of the block mountains of the Great Basin are of complicated internal structure, showing rocks of all ages - slate, limestone, quartzites, granite, multi-coloured volcanic rocks, and large areas of lava overflow.
In the Centaur battle, having been crushed by rocks and trunks of trees, he was changed into a bird; or he disappeared into the depths of the earth unharmed.