rock
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
he threw a rock at me
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Sense 2 verb
move back and forth or sideways
the ship was rocking
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Sense 3 noun
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
that mountain is solid rock
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Sense 4 verb
cause to move back and forth
rock the cradle
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Sense 5 noun
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
he was her rock during the crisis
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Sense 6 noun
hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
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Sense 7 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.
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Sense 8 noun
pitching dangerously to one side
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stone |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rocky |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | natural object |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | achondrite |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bedrock |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | boulder |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | calculus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | chondrite |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clastic rock |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crystallization |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | intrusion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | outcrop |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pebble |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | petrifaction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sill |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stepping stone |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tor |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wall rock |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | whinstone |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | xenolith |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | waggle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | careen |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rocking chair |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sway |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | rock |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move back and forth |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | roll |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | nutate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | swag |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | totter |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stone |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | mineral |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | material |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | quartzite |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | road metal |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sedimentary rock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sial |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sima |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | metamorphic rock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gravel |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | caliche |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shingling |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pumice |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | aphanite |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | claystone |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | dolomite |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | emery stone |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | conglomerate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fieldstone |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | greisen |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tufa |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | magma |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | igneous rock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | limestone |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | marble |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | matrix |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | careen |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rocker |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rocker |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | rock |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | good person |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | candy |
| 7 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | backbeat |
| 7 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | backbeat |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | popular music |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | heavy metal music |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | progressive rock |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | psychedelic rock |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | punk rock |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | rock |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | rock |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | swing |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | cant |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | careen |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | lurch |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | tilt |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | bumpy |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | pitching |