noun Download 🔗Share A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth. Examples : "The baby's cradle had smooth rockers that allowed Grandma to gently soothe him to sleep. " part architecture material building item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rocking chair. Examples : "My grandmother's favorite chair is her old rockers. " item utensil building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.) Examples : "All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https//web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm" sport nautical sailing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The breve below as in ḫ. Examples : "The diacritic mark that looks like little smileys, called rockers, can be found below certain letters in transliterations of Semitic languages, such as "ḫ". " language linguistics phonetics word grammar Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Someone passionate about rock music. Examples : "The concert was packed with rockers wearing band t-shirts and singing along to every song. " music person entertainment culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A musician who plays rock music. Examples : "The concert featured a group of young rockers playing classic guitar riffs. " music entertainment person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rock music song. Examples : "The radio station played a string of classic rockers all afternoon. " music entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One who rocks something. Examples : "The rockers gently swayed the baby's cradle, helping him fall asleep. " music entertainment person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music. Examples : "In the 1960s, the rockers roared through British towns on their motorcycles, challenging the cleaner-cut mods. " culture music style history entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The gold miners used rockers to carefully wash away the dirt and gravel, leaving only the valuable gold dust behind. " machine utensil technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints. Examples : "The printmaker used a set of rockers to prepare the copper plate for the mezzotint, carefully roughening the surface to hold the ink. " art utensil technical machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rocking horse. Examples : "The little girl loved to play with her rockers in the nursery. " entertainment item animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rocker board. Examples : "The children enjoyed balancing on the rockers during gym class. " device machine thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle. Examples : "The old ice skates had rockers, making it hard to balance because the blades curved like the bottom of a rocking chair. " vehicle sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rock shaft. Examples : "The miners used the rockers to extract the ore from the shaft. " machine part technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading