rocker
See also: Rocker
English
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.)
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- 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
- (Britain) 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
- rockers reggae
- rocker switch
- surf rocker
Translations
curved piece of wood
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
French
Conjugation
Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | rockant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
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| past participle | rocké /ʁɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rocker | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | rockant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rocker” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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