different between doc vs roc

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: Doc, dock

Etymology 1

Clipping of doctor.

Noun

doc (plural docs)

1. (informal) A doctor.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of document.

Noun

doc (plural docs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence.

Etymology 3

Clipping of documentary.

Noun

doc (plural docs)

1. (informal) A documentary.

   Synonyms: docu, (South Africa) doccie

   • 2003, The Independent Film & Video Monthly (page 38)

     If you think watching a doc about a spelling bee isn't the most entertaining way to spend ninety minutes, think again.

Anagrams

• C.O.D., CDO, COD, OCD, ODC, cod

Italian

Noun

doc

1. Alternative letter-case form of DOC (“controlled designation of origin”)

Adjective

doc

1. (chiefly wine) certified as DOC (of a product, usually wine)

2. (by extension, colloquial) genuine, excellent

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *duH. Cognate with White Hmong deg.

Noun

doc 

1. turtle

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (da?a, “ten”)

Numeral

doc

1. ten

Romanian

Etymology

From English dock.

Noun

doc n (plural docuri)

1. dock

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: rock, rawk

Etymology 1

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rox).

Alternative forms

• roche
• rok
• ruc
• rukh

Noun

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

Synonyms

• peng (Chinese contexts)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ORC, cor, cor-, orc

Catalan

Etymology

From roca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?r?k/

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

See also

• pedra

Further reading

• “roc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/

Etymology 1

Variant of roche.

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

Related terms

• roche
• rocher

Etymology 2

Old French roc, ultimately from Persian ??? (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit ?? (ratha, “chariot”).

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

Synonyms

• tour

Related terms

• roquer
• rocade

Further reading

• “roc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cor

Interlingua

Noun

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

Declension

Verb

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rocach

References

• "roc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latvian

Verb

roc

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roc

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rukh).

Noun

roc m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Khmer

Verb

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“to withdraw”)

Noun

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“fortnight following full moon”)

Old Saxon

Noun

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok