rock
rock is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Roc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. See Roc.
- noun. A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
- noun. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
- noun. Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
- noun. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
- noun. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
- noun. The striped bass. See under Bass.
- transitive verb. To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
- transitive verb. To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
- intransitive verb. To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
- intransitive verb. To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
- noun. pitching dangerously to one side
- noun. 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."
- noun. hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- noun. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
"he threw a rock at me"
- noun. (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable--Gospel According to Matthew
"he was her rock during the crisis"
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"
- noun. United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
- noun. 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"
- verb. move back and forth or sideways
"the ship was rocking"
"the tall building swayed"
- verb. cause to move back and forth
"rock the cradle"
"rock the baby"
Synonyms
careen, sway, tilt, rocknroll, stone, shake
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rock:
Common word forms
rocks, rocked, rocker, rocking, rockable, rockless
Words from these letters
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