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Textual thesaurus for "rock"

(noun) tilt, sway, careen

pitching dangerously to one side


(noun) rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll

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) rock candy

hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)


(noun) stone

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

he threw a rock at me


(noun) John Rock, Rock

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)


(noun) stone

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) sway, shake

move back and forth or sideways

the ship was rocking; the tall building swayed; She rocked back and forth on her feet


(verb) sway

cause to move back and forth

rock the cradle; rock the baby; the wind swayed the trees gently