rocker
See also: Rocker
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒk.ə(ɹ)/
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑ.kɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹɔk.ə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Noun edit
rocker (plural rockers)
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
- The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
- A rocking chair.
- 2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis:
- A few days before he turned 80
He was sittin' out back in a rocker
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [1]
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- 1984, Matthew Wolfgang Stolper, Texts from Tall-i Malyan Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund; 6), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page XVII:
- Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.
- 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
- Although the exact sound value of s remains uncertain, and there is only one such sibiliant in Hittite, it is traditionally transliterated with a so-called haček: š. This should not be taken, however, as evidence that it was a palatal sound (as sh in show). The same is true for the traditional “rocker” under the laryngeal ḫ: there is no other h-sign, and the diacritic is not strictly necessary.
- 2019, John Huehnergard, “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 15:
- Semitistic transliteration systems […] a number of features are common to most of them: […] ḫ (“h” with a “rocker,” conventionally called “hooked h”) for the voiceless velar/uvular fricative, IPA [x]/[χ], […]
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s [2]
- "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
- September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s [2]
- One who rocks something.
- 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Trusting maketh one Trusty”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page [75]:
- It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- A rocker board.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- 2000, Mark Collantes, The Academy, page 66:
- Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
curved piece of wood
Hence, a rocking chair
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The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard
musician who plays rock music
Someone passionate about rock music
One who rocks something
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rocker m (plural rockers, diminutive rockertje n)
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rocker
- to rock (play or enjoy rock music)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rocker | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rockant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rocké /ʁɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockes /ʁɔk/ |
rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/ |
rockez /ʁɔ.ke/ |
rockent /ʁɔk/ |
| imperfect | rockais /ʁɔ.kɛ/ |
rockais /ʁɔ.kɛ/ |
rockait /ʁɔ.kɛ/ |
rockions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
rockiez /ʁɔ.kje/ |
rockaient /ʁɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rockai /ʁɔ.ke/ |
rockas /ʁɔ.ka/ |
rocka /ʁɔ.ka/ |
rockâmes /ʁɔ.kam/ |
rockâtes /ʁɔ.kat/ |
rockèrent /ʁɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | rockerai /ʁɔ.kʁe/ |
rockeras /ʁɔ.kʁa/ |
rockera /ʁɔ.kʁa/ |
rockerons /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
rockerez /ʁɔ.kʁe/ |
rockeront /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rockerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
rockerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
rockerait /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
rockerions /ʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rockeriez /ʁɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
rockeraient /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockes /ʁɔk/ |
rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
rockiez /ʁɔ.kje/ |
rockent /ʁɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | rockasse /ʁɔ.kas/ |
rockasses /ʁɔ.kas/ |
rockât /ʁɔ.ka/ |
rockassions /ʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
rockassiez /ʁɔ.ka.sje/ |
rockassent /ʁɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rocke /ʁɔk/ |
— | rockons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/ |
rockez /ʁɔ.ke/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
rocker m (plural rockeri)
- rock music musician or fan
Declension edit
Declension of rocker
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) rocker | rockerul | (niște) rockeri | rockerii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) rocker | rockerului | (unor) rockeri | rockerilor |
| vocative | rockerule | rockerilor | ||
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rocker m (plural rockeres)