rocker

名词 n.
/ˈɹɒk.ə(ɹ)/    /ˈɹɑ.kɚ/|/ˈɹɔk.ə(ɹ)/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
    — The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
  2. A rocking chair.
    — A few days before he turned 80 He was sittin' out back in a rocker
  3. The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
    — All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm
  4. The breve below as in ḫ.
    — Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.
  5. Someone passionate about rock music.
  6. A musician who plays rock music.
  7. A rock music song. informal
    — "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
  8. One who rocks something.
    — It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]
  9. A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music. UK
  10. 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.
  11. A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
  12. A rocking horse.
  13. A rocker board.
  14. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
  15. A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
  16. A rock shaft.
  17. A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
    — Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.

词形变化

rockers plural

词源

From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.
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