rock vs wave

rock

verb
  • To move gently back and forth. 

  • To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy. 

  • To thrill or excite, especially with rock music. 

  • To sway one's body as a stim. 

  • To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style). 

  • to make love to or have sex with. 

  • To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic. 

  • To do something with excitement yet skillfully. 

  • To sway or tilt violently back and forth. 

  • To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively). 

  • To cause to shake or sway violently. 

  • To do well or to be operating at high efficiency. 

  • To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker. 

  • to be cool. 

noun
  • An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands. 

  • Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another. 

  • A mistake. 

  • Synonym of stone. 

  • The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust. 

  • A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond. 

  • A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use 

  • Distaff. 

  • The flax or wool on a distaff. 

  • A large hill or island having no vegetation. 

  • A basketball. 

  • An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway. 

  • A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length. 

  • A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals. 

  • A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water. 

  • Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals. 

  • An Afrikaner. 

  • An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes. 

  • A crystallized lump of crack cocaine. 

  • The striped bass. 

  • A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble. 

  • A lump or cube of ice. 

  • The huss or rock salmon. 

  • A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. 

  • A crystal used to control the radio frequency. 

wave

verb
  • To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. 

  • To generate a wave. 

  • To swing and miss at a pitch. 

  • To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. 

  • To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. 

  • To have an undulating or wavy form. 

  • To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to. 

  • To produce waves to the hair. 

  • To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement. 

  • To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. 

  • To cause to move back and forth repeatedly. 

noun
  • A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands. 

  • One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games. 

  • A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. 

  • Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings. 

  • A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions. 

  • The ocean. 

  • A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field. 

  • A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something. 

  • A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit. 

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