English Dictionary

rock

verb

(transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth. / (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently. / (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.

She loves to rock out at concerts.

意味（1）

(transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.

A rising earthquake rocked the ground.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.

The boat rocked at anchor.

意味（4）

(transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.

The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.

意味（5）

(transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).

Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.

The Blues' challenge had been rocking at that point, with Terry's centre-back partner Gary Cahill lost to injury and Barca having just levelled the tie through Busquets's neat, close-range finish from Isaac Cuenca's pull-back.

意味（7）

(intransitive) to be cool.

That band rocks!

意味（8）

(slang, transitive, euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with.

Cum on feel the noize, girls, rock your boys.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.

Tends to tap fingers on desk or spin ring on finger, especially when stressed. Sucks thumb in private. Loves to rock.