rocker
See also: Rocker
Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)
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.
- A rocking chair.
- (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]
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- Pitchfork Media [2]
- "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
- Pitchfork Media [2]
- One who rocks something.
- Fuller
- It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.
- Fuller
- (Britain) 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 rocking horse.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
curved piece of wood
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Hence, a rocking chair
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The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard
Someone passionate about rock music
One who rocks something
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
rocker
- to rock (play or enjoy rock music)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | rocker | avoir rocké | |||||
gerund | en rockant | en ayant rocké | |||||
present participle | rockant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
past participle | rocké /ʁɔ.ke/ | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
simple tenses |
present | rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockes /ʁɔk/ |
rocke /ʁɔk/ |
rockions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
rockiez /ʁɔ.kje/ |
rockent /ʁɔk/ |
imperfect1 | rockasse /ʁɔ.kas/ |
rockasses /ʁɔ.kas/ |
rockât /ʁɔ.ka/ |
rockassions /ʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
rockassiez /ʁɔ.ka.sje/ |
rockassent /ʁɔ.kas/ | |
compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
— | rocke /ʁɔk/ |
— | rockons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/ |
rockez /ʁɔ.ke/ |
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1literary tenses |
Further reading[edit]
- “rocker” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
rocker m (plural rockeres)
- rocker (rock musician)
Categories:
- English words suffixed with -er
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Surfing
- English informal terms
- British English
- en:Engineering
- en:Furniture
- en:Musicians
- en:People
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns