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roc
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)
- 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;
- The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
Synonyms
- peng (Chinese contexts)
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
roc
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- ray (fish)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).
Noun
roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)
- wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker
Declension
Verb
roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)
- wrinkle, crease, pucker
- corrugate
- kink
- crimp
Conjugation
Derived terms
- rocach
References
- "roc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Latvian
Verb
roc
- 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
- 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French roc
Noun
roc m (plural rocs)
- (chess) rook
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe 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)
- (chess) rook
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (roc)
Old Khmer
Verb
roc
- Latin script form of ???? (“to withdraw”)
Noun
roc
- Latin script form of ???? (“fortnight following full moon”)
Old Saxon
Noun
roc m
- Alternative spelling of rok
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stone
English
Etymology
From Middle English stone, ston, stan, from Old English st?n, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (compare Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?- (“to stiffen”) (compare Russian ?????? (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek ???? (stía, “pebble”), ????? (stéar, “tallow”), Persian ????? (sot?n, “pillar”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit ????????? (sty?yate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sto?n/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /st??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or stone) (see usage notes)
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
- A small piece of stone, a pebble.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (?6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, &c) but now principally used for personal weight
- 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
- 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
- (obsolete) A testicle of an animal.
- (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.
Usage notes
All countable senses use the plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.
Synonyms
- (substance): rock
- (small piece of stone): pebble
- (unit of mass): petra
- (of fruit): pip, pit
- (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
- (curling piece): rock
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ston
- ? Esperanto: ?tono
Translations
Verb
stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)
- (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- She got stoned to death after they found her.
- (transitive) To wall with stones.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
Synonyms
- (pelt with stones): lapidate
- (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
- (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out
Translations
Adjective
stone (not comparable)
- Constructed of stone.
- stone walls
- Synonym: (archaic) stonen
- Having the appearance of stone.
- stone pot
- Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
- She is one stone fox.
- (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
- stone butch; stone femme
- Antonym: pillow princess
Translations
Adverb
stone (not comparable)
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
- (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
- I went stone crazy after she left.
- I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Anagrams
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ston/
Adjective
stone (plural stones)
- stoned (high on drugs)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ston, stan, stoon, stoone, stane, stoan
Etymology
From Old English st?n, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /st??n/
- IPA(key): /st??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
stone (plural stones or stone or (Early ME, rare) stonen)
- A stone, boulder, or pebble:
- A millstone or whetstone.
- A pebble used in a slingshot.
- A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
- A piece of hail, a hailstone
- A kidney stone or gallstone
- A pit (the hard seed of a fruit)
- A jewel or precious crystal
- (colloquial) A testicle.
- Stone as a material (especially in construction)
- A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
- A stone (unit of mass)
Related terms
Descendants
- English: stone (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: stane
- Yola: sthoan
References
- “st?n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
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