rock

«rock» in Mova's school dictionary: The hard, solid material that the Earth's surface is made of — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (rock, rocks); verb (rock, rocks, rocked, rocking)

meaning for a pupil

1) The hard, solid material that the Earth's surface is made of. tree →

2) A large stone: "sitting on a rock". tree →

3) A kind of loud popular music with guitars and drums: "rock music". tree →

4) As a verb, to move gently from side to side or back and forth: "rock the baby". tree →

5) As a verb, to shake or shock: "The earthquake rocked the town." tree →

6) A hard sweet in a stick (British seaside rock). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, there are three kinds of rock: igneous (from cooled lava), sedimentary (layers pressed together, may hold fossils) and metamorphic (changed by heat and pressure); rocks slowly wear into soil and sand. In safety: rocks at the sea are slippery; don't climb loose rocks. Phrases: rock pool, rock music, solid as a rock, rock bottom, on the rocks.

examples

• This rock has a fossil in it. tree →
• We sat on a big rock. tree →
• Rocks slowly break down into sand. tree →
• Granite is a very hard rock. tree →
• Rock the baby to sleep. tree →
• The earthquake rocked the city. tree →
• Look for crabs in the rock pools. tree →
• My dad loves rock music. tree →
• The ship had struck upon a rock. tree →

note

"A rock" is countable; "rock" as material is uncountable. In American English, "rock" can mean any stone, even a small one. "Rocking chair" rocks back and forth.

In the corpora

• Okean Elzy is a Ukrainian rock band formed in 1994 and popular for decades.
• Pop and rock concerts are loud and crowded; big festivals run for several days with many stages, and many fans wear earplugs.
• The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.
• Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks.
• Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.