Rock vs. Diamond

Rocknoun

A formation of minerals, specifically:

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

(UK) A boulder or large stone; or a smaller stone; a pebble.

Rocknoun

(geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.

Rocknoun

(slang) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.

Rocknoun

A large hill or island having no vegetation.

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

A lump or cube of ice.

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.

Rocknoun

An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.

Rocknoun

An Afrikaner.

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

Any of several fish:

Rocknoun

The striped bass.

Rocknoun

The huss or rock salmon.

Rocknoun

A basketball.

Rocknoun

(rock paper scissors) 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.

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

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

Rocknoun

(countable) Distaff.

Rocknoun

(uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.

Rockverb

To move gently back and forth.

Rockverb

(transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.

Rockverb

(intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.

Rockverb

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

Rockverb

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

Rockverb

(intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.

Rockverb

(euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with someone.

Rockverb

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

Rockverb

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

Rockverb

(transitive) to thrill or excite, especially with rock music

Rockverb

(transitive) to do something with excitement yet skillfully

Rockverb

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

Rocknoun

See Roc.

Rocknoun

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

Rocknoun

A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Rocknoun

Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

Rocknoun

That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

Rocknoun

Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

Rocknoun

The striped bass. See under Bass.

Rockverb

To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.

Rockverb

To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

Rockverb

To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

Rockverb

To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

Rocknoun

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;

Rocknoun

material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;

Rocknoun

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

Rocknoun

(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable;

Rocknoun

hard stick bright-colored stick candy typically peppermint flavored

Rocknoun

a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western;

Rocknoun

pitching dangerously to one side

Rockverb

move back and forth or sideways;

Rockverb

cause to move back and forth;

Rocknoun

the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil

Rocknoun

a mass of rock projecting above the earth's surface or out of the sea

Rocknoun

any natural material, hard or soft (e.g. clay), having a distinctive mineral composition.

Rocknoun

informal name for Gibraltar.

Rocknoun

a name for Newfoundland

Rocknoun

a large piece of rock which has become detached from a cliff or mountain; a boulder

Rocknoun

a stone of any size

Rocknoun

a kind of hard confectionery in the form of cylindrical peppermint-flavoured sticks

Rocknoun

a precious stone, especially a diamond.

Rocknoun

a small piece of crack cocaine

Rocknoun

a man's testicles.

Rocknoun

used to refer to someone or something that is extremely strong, reliable, or hard

Rocknoun

(especially with allusion to shipwrecks) a source of danger or destruction

Rocknoun

money.

Rocknoun

rock music

Rocknoun

rock and roll.

Rocknoun

a gentle movement to and fro or from side to side

Rockverb

move gently to and fro or from side to side

Rockverb

(with reference to a building or region) shake or cause to shake or vibrate, especially because of an impact, earthquake, or explosion

Rockverb

cause great shock or distress to (someone or something), especially so as to weaken or destabilize

Rockverb

dance to or play rock music

Rockverb

(of a place) be exciting or full of social activity

Rockverb

be very good or pleasing

Rockverb

wear (a garment) or affect (an attitude or style), especially in a confident or flamboyant way

Diamondnoun

(uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.

Diamondnoun

A gemstone made from this mineral.

Diamondnoun

A ring containing a diamond.

Diamondnoun

A very pale blue color/colour.

Diamondnoun

Something that resembles a diamond.

Diamondnoun

(geometry) A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.

Diamondnoun

(geometry) The polyiamond made up of two triangles.

Diamondnoun

(baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.

Diamondnoun

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

Diamondnoun

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.

Diamondnoun

A size of type, standardised as 4½ point.

Diamondnoun

The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4½-point.

Diamondadjective

made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.

Diamondadjective

of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.

Diamondadjective

of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.

Diamondadjective

(slang) First-rate; excellent.

Diamondverb

to adorn with or as if with diamonds

Diamondnoun

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

Diamondnoun

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

Diamondnoun

One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

Diamondnoun

A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

Diamondnoun

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

Diamondnoun

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

Diamondadjective

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

Diamondnoun

a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

Diamondnoun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Diamondnoun

a playing card in the minor suit of diamonds

Diamondnoun

the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate

Diamondnoun

the baseball playing field

Diamondnoun

a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance

Diamondnoun

a tool with a small diamond for cutting glass.

Diamondnoun

an excellent or very special person or thing

Diamondnoun

a figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus

Diamondnoun

one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red diamond.

Diamondnoun

a card of the suit of diamonds

Diamondnoun

the area delimited by the four bases of a baseball field, forming a square shape.

Diamondnoun

a baseball field.

Diamond

Diamond is a form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond almost never converts to it.