rocker
See also: Rocker
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)
Noun
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
- (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 skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
curved piece of wood
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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
Danish
Noun
rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)
French
Etymology
Verb
rocker
- to rock (play or enjoy rock music)
Conjugation
Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rocker | |||||
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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
Further reading
- “rocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- Rhymes:English/ɒkə(r)
- 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
- Danish terms spelled with C
- Danish common-gender nouns
- French terms suffixed with -er
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French terms spelled with K
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs