Rock

Definition

rock 1 /rɒk/ n ၁။ (က) [U, C] ေက်ာက္သား။ ေက်ာက္။ They drilled through several layers of rock to reach the oil. ❍ igneous/lunar rocks. (ခ) [C] ေက်ာက္ေဆာင္။ the Rock of Gibraltar ❍ The ship hit some rocks and sank. ၂။ [C] (က) ေက်ာက္ ေဆာင္။ ေက်ာက္တံုး။ clambering over the rocks at the foot of the cliff ❍ The sign said ‘Danger: falling rocks’. (ခ) ( US ) ေက်ာက္ခဲ။ That boy threw a rock at me. ၃။ ( Brit ) ( US rock candy ) [U] (ပင္လယ္ ကမ္းေျခ အပန္းေျဖစခန္းမ်ား၌ ေရာင္းေလ့ရိွေသာ) တုတ္ပံု သၾကားခဲ။ a stick of Brighton rock. ❏ on the rocks [ IDM ] ၁။ ေက်ာက္ေဆာင္တြင္ တင္ေနၿပီး ၿပိဳကြဲေနေသာ သေဘၤာ။ ၂။ ( infml ) (အိမ္ ေထာင္၊ လုပ္ငန္းစသည္) ၿပိဳကြဲပ်က္စီးရန္ အလားအလာရိွေနျခင္း။ ၃။ ( infml ) ဝီစကီ စသည္ႏွင့္ ေရခဲတံုးသက္သက္သာပါေသာ အရက္ခြက္။ Scotch on the rocks. ❏ rock-bottom n [U] (used without the ) အနိမ့္ဆံုး။ Prices have hit/reached rock-bottom. ❍ rock-bottom (ie bargain) prices. ❏ rock-cake n သစ္သီးေျခာက္ပါ၍ အေပၚသားမာေသာ ကိတ္မုန္႔ကေလး။ ❏ rock-climbing n [U] ေက်ာက္ကမ္းပါးယံ တြယ္တက္ေသာ အားကစားနည္း။ ယင္းသို႔တက္ျခင္း။ ❏ rock-garden n = ROCKERY ❍ HOUSE n ❏ rock-hard adj မာေခါက္ေသာ။ မာေတာင္ေနေသာ။ ခက္မာ ေသာ။ a rock-hard body/bed ❍ The chicken was still rock-hard from the freezer. ❍ He may look soft, but underneath he's rock-hard. ❏ rock-salt n [U] ဆားခဲ။ သိေႏၶာဆား။ ❏ rock-solid (also rock-steady ) adj ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ အျပည့္အဝေထာက္ခံေသာ။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ a rock-solid defence/excuse ❍ rock-solid Tory voters ❍ rock-steady nerves. ❏ (as) solid/steady as a rock [ IDM ] တည္တည္ ၾကည္ၾကည္ႏွင့္ အထူးအားကိုးရေသာ။ an invaluable player, steady as a rock. rock 2 /rɒk/ v ၁။ ေရွ႕ေနာက္၊ ဘယ္ညာလႊဲသည္၊ လႈပ္သည္။ (ပုခက္) လႊဲသည္။ rock a baby to sleep ❍ He sat rocking (himself) in his chair. ❍ Our boat was rocked (from side to side) by the waves. ❍ He rocked back on his heels. ၂။ လႈပ္ခါ သည္။ လႈပ္ယမ္းသည္။ The whole house rocked as the bomb exploded. ❍ The town was rocked by an earthquake. ၃။ တုန္လႈပ္သြားေစသည္။ ေခ်ာက္ခ်ားေစသည္။ The scandal rocked the government. ❏ off one's rocker [ IDM ] ( sl ) ႐ူးသည္။ ဦးေႏွာက္ေခ်ာင္ သည္။ You must be off your rocker! ❏ rock the boat [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဟန္ခ်က္ပ်က္ေအာင္ ဆတ္ေဆာ့သည္။ Things are progressing well—please don't (do anything to) rock the boat. ❏ rocker n ၁။ လႈပ္ကုလားထိုင္၏ ေအာက္ေျခအေကြး။ ၂။ = ROCKING-CHAIR ၃။ (also rocker switch ) လႈပ္တုပ္ လႊဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ ဖြင့္ရပိတ္ရေသာ ခလုတ္။ လႈပ္တုပ္ခလုတ္။ ❏ rocking-chair (also rocker ) n (ေျခေထာက္တို႔ကို လျခမ္းပံုေအာက္ေျခတြင္ ထိုင္ထားျခင္းျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ငိုက္ ေနာက္လွန္ လႈပ္ေသာ) လႈပ္ကုလားထိုင္။ ❏ rocking-horse n (လျခမ္းပံုေအာက္ေျခ၊ စပရင္မ်ားေပၚ ထိုင္ထားသျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ေနာက္လႈပ္ယမ္း စီးကစားႏိုင္ေသာ) ကေလးစီး ျမင္း႐ုပ္။ လႈပ္ျမင္း႐ုပ္။ ❏ rocky /'rɒki/ adj ( -ier , -iest ) ယိုင္တိယိုင္တိုင္ျဖစ္ [ေသာ]။ ၿပိဳလဲမေယာင္။ ဒယီးဒယိုင္။ This chair is a bit rocky. ❍ ( fig ) a rocky marriage ❍ The programme got off to a rocky start. rock 3 /rɒk/ (also rock music ) n [U] စည္းခ်က္ျပင္း၍ က်ယ္ေလာင္ ေသာ ေခတ္ေပၚေတးဂီတမ်ဳိး။ hard/punk rock ❍ a rock band/star. v ယင္း ေရာ့ခ္တီးလံုးႏွင့္ ကသည္။ rocking the night away ❍ rock to the beat. ❏ rock and roll (also rock ’n’ roll ) n [U] ေရာ့ခ္ ေတးဂီတမ်ဳိးတြင္ ေရွးဦးမူလအစျဖစ္ေသာ ပံုစံ။ a rock ’n’ roll singer. ❏ rocker n ၁။ (also Rocker ) ( Brit ) ေရာ့ခ္တီးလံုးမ်ား၌ ေမြ႕ေလ်ာ္ျခင္း။ (သားေရဂ်ာကင္ဝတ္ၿပီး ေမာ္ေတာ္ ဆိုင္ကယ္စီးျခင္း ဓေလ့တို႔၌ တူညီမႈအရ ၁၉၆၀- ျပည့္ႏွစ္တစ္ဝိုက္မွ လူငယ္ကို ရည္ၫႊန္းေသာအမည္)။ Compare mod ၂။ ေရာ့ခ္တီးလံုး တီးသူ၊ အဆိုေတာ္ (သို႔) ယင္း၌ေမြ႕ေလ်ာ္သူ။ a funk/heavy/punk rocker ❍ an ageing rocker.

Examples

1. Rainwater flows through soil and porous rock to reach underground streams.
2. We had to dig down through a twelve-inch layer of rock.
3. A castle built on a big rock
4. The Rock of Gibraltar
5. She ran over the fallen rocks towards him.
6. The waves crashed against the rocks.
7. Protesters threw rocks at the police.
8. A rock star
9. Rock concerts