Hay 2 traducciones principales de rock en Español

: rock¹ rock²

rock¹

roca, n.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciación /rɒk//rɑk/

nombre

1
(substance)
roca femenino
igneous/volcanic rock — roca ígnea/volcánica
- a great lump of rock — una roca enorme
- hewn from the rock — tallado en la roca viva
- as hard as rock — duro como una piedra
- A main types of mineral phosphate, soft rock phosphate comes mostly from ancient sea deposits.
- The granite fines were a by-product of crushing syenite granite rock.
- Karst landscapes are developed wherever soluble carbonate rocks outcrop and where surplus rainfall is available to dissolve the limestone.
- The cave offers an in-depth view of the immense layers of limestone rock formed by the sedimented shells.
- Dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate rock, can be found beneath the soil surface.
2
- 2.1(crag, cliff)
  peñasco masculino
  peñón masculino
  my wife was like a rock throughout that time — mi esposa fue mi puntal durante toda esa época
  the Rock (of Gibraltar) — el Peñón (de Gibraltar)
  as solid as a rock — firme / sólido como una roca
  Helen makes her way to Skerray, a tiny crofting community whose name translates as ‘between the rocks and the sea’.
  Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
  Huge rocks jutted out of the ground, with no clear trail across it.
  Stone was sourced from a local quarry where it is still possible to scramble around and observe a handful of small stelae, partially carved, but not quite freed from the mass of the rock.
  The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
  Jagged rocks jutted out from both sides of the canyon.
  He turned the movie's sets into an illustration of Inuit thrift and ingenuity, played against ice massifs, snowy rivers, a wide ocean, and lowland rocks covered in moss.
  On the highest part of the rock on which the old city of Toledo is founded is the conventual church of San Marcos.
  Effectively, the rock is left exposed in its geological location, but cut free from its surround.
  The inn is actually a front for illegal operations involving the luring of ships onto the coastal rocks where the crews are murdered and the ships' cargoes can be plundered.
  He decides on Fiona, who is prisoner in a castle on a rock, surrounded by molten lava and guarded by a fierce dragon.
  Swimming was difficult and dangerous due to the heavy waves and jagged rocks, so Pinos adapted existing breakwater structures to enclose two new bays for protected bathing.
  At the centre of the building is a courtyard; in fact, the original patch of trees, rocks and earth that was here from the very start.
  ‘The boat can crash into the rocks and still float, because of the plasticity of the skin,’ he says.
  Those who were not sold quickly were carried down to the rocks where the sea breaks, forced into dinghies, and rowed out to waiting ships.
  I went out into this absolutely beautiful country, the beautiful red soil, the rugged red rocks above the hills, and it just blew my mind.
  Of course they have to break out of jail, and the posse who is hot on their tail gets turned back by a sniper in the rocks above.
  One had to earn the right to surf beneath the dangerous pier, with it's exhilarating waves and threatening jagged rocks.
  More than half of Mandela's sentence was spent on Robben Island, a windswept rock surrounded by the treacherous seas of the Cape of Good Hope.
  Pavers surround a rock that is left to emerge from the floor.
- 2.2(in sea)
  roca femenino
  escollo masculino
  the ship ran onto the rocks — el barco encalló en las rocas
- 2.3(boulder)
  roca femenino
  [ S ]danger falling rocks — desprendimiento de rocas
  We are presented with abstract patterns of black and gray with flashes of white that only with time begin to coalesce into an image of water rippling over well-worn rocks on the riverbed.
  They rolled over and over in the tumbling water, then finally surfaced downstream, away from the rocks - and far, far from the distantly barking pack of dogs.
  In order to trap him forever, the landowner pulls a rock, the size of a small car, over the cave mouth.
  He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress.
  Watch for the scene where Sid is trying to get comfortable on a rock - he flops around, contorting his body into every possible shape.
  It was so clearly identifiable as his work from the outset that I kept expecting either Ricardo Montalban or Kate Winslet to pop out from behind a rock.
  I loved the endless hours I spent splashing in streams, eating blackberries off the bush, catching trout, walking the woods, sunning on rocks, listening to banjos and dulcimers.
  They decipher traces of ancient Platyhelminthe movement in the California mountains, on rocks that are over half a billion years old.
  Lane advances toward Mrs. Lowe's hiding place and she begins shooting wildly, one bullet after another, even after Lane takes cover behind a rock.
  With a free afternoon ahead, I hiked a quarter mile from Chopta, sat down on a large rock, and watched the sun descend in the West toward snow-capped peaks, a huge red ball sliding behind dense gray clouds.
  Should he have intervened, therefore preventing David's death, or did he do the right thing by just staying behind the rocks?
  If you hit a big rock, just feel your way around it, but don't lose your sense of direction.
  He too loves the way the light plays upon the crags and faces of the rocks but Roland has another relationship with the mountain, he is call out co-ordinator for the mountain search and rescue dogs.
  A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
  It crosses multiple blocks and is lush with trees, flowers, lawns, cliffs, streams, waterfalls, ponds, clusters of rocks, and outdoor terraces.
  The ‘Stone fish’ has a deadly poison which paralyses you and they look just like stones so can be camouflaged amongst the rocks.
  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
  Geometric shapes, classical columns, shrines and sets of zigzagging stairs are combined with stylized landscape elements, such as rocks, a river, fields and mountains.
- 2.4(stone)
  piedra femenino
  to throw rocks — tirar piedras
  to have rocks in one's head — faltarle a algn un tornillo
  Because it was big and strong, people ran from it or threw rocks at it or chased it around, waving torches.
  In some instances, especially in the war zones, rocks were thrown at the screens.
  Alex kicked another rock in front of her and nodded.
  My brother and I would pretend fight, I'd be knocked down, and then I'd roll down the hill while bumping against tiny rocks and other imperfections peppering the slide.
  What Aranoa does is pick up that rock and show the teeming life underneath.
  He and his friend throw rocks at each other and walk out of town.
  If an animal threatened to get out of place, a hiss or a shout or a well-aimed rock would turn it back where it belonged, but such measures were not often necessary.
  If you must ripple the pond, throw a small rock first and pay careful attention.
  I just want to be old and nasty and live alone and throw rocks at neighborhood dogs.
  Outdoors, a lone malcontent teenage girl lurks and throws rocks in the dark.
  She shot small rocks on the beach from above at the time of day when the sun casts long shadows.
  I get the feeling I couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Baldwin.
  At her house, he gets the attention of her bouncer by throwing a rock.
  Tiger also faced abuse at the hands of grade school classmates, who once even tied him to a tree and threw rocks at him.
  You saw the scene with the kids throwing rocks at us.
  Upon rushing upstairs I discovered he had thrown a rock through my window.
  The film has one of cinema's most beautiful uses of an open exterior, when the husband throws a rock towards the nuclear plant just after dusk.
  He threw rocks through their living window and claimed they were being attacked.
  A switchback ramp scales a battered wall of rough granite blocks and you wonder if defenders will appear on the ramparts above and drive you off with rocks.
  He kicked a small rock on the ground to the other side of the path.
3argot
(jewel)
piedra femenino
- It's like a trip through a jewelry store that sells nothing but pricey diamond rings with big rocks.
- Instead of working with flashy, expensive rocks, he preferred to use semiprecious stones - and his wits.
4Britanico
Cocina
barra de caramelo de colores

Hay 2 traducciones principales de rock en Español

: rock¹ rock²

rock²

mecerse, v.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciación /rɒk//rɑk/

verbo intransitivo

1
(gently)
mecerse
balancearse
the boat rocked gently on the waves — el barco se mecía suavemente en las olas
- She rocked herself to and fro, and the tears gathered in her eyes and slowly trickled down her cheeks.
- Some women started cooking meal under trees while some others gently rocked makeshift cradles hanging from tree branches.
- I guess you just get use to being rocked to sleep every night.
- The floor seemed to be pitching, like a boat rocked by waves.
- As of this week, he no longer wants to be rocked to sleep.
- As he cuddles his teddy bear, she rocks him to sleep.
- I think I spent a week in a row rocking him to sleep, just speaking it over.
- He rocked his body at the mike, rolled his eyes, pulled back his lips in elegant disdain, and finished each sentence with a sensual guttural trail.
2
(violently)
(ground/building) sacudirse
(ground/building) estremecerse
to rock with laughter — desternillarse de risa
- Both films take place in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked northern Iran in 1990, killing nearly 50,000 people.
- For the second day, a suicide blast rocked the city of Tal Afar.
- Brimstone's ship was violently rocked by the explosions, but still managed to maintain their shields.
- Just then, the ship was rocked by an explosion.
- An explosion rocks downtown London and shuts down the city.
- He is awake in the middle of the night and he feels as if the hotel is being rocked by an earthquake.
- Then the entire world was rocked by a massive earthquake, which killed more than half the population.
- Situated in a sensitive seismic zone, the country has been rocked by many earthquakes.
3
Música
rocanrolear
bailar rock
- Whatever may happen in the future, the band are rocking hard in the present.
- If the crowd is not rocking to this one beat, you gotta get it out and get the next record in.
- In this case, the screen was bigger, the score was louder and the crowd was rocking.
- These guys knew how to rock - and did so for nearly two hours!
- Dewey drinks hard, sleeps late, plays gigs in dingy clubs and, most importantly, loves to rock.
- Each of these rhythm and blues legends had the hall rocking to the sounds of the Sixties.
- The focus of the film isn't so much that this guy teaches kids how to rock as it about how he teaches them to rock.
- While my musical strength may be in the Classical realm, I also know that Little Richard really rocked in his day.
- Despite the odd venue choice, Billy Corgan and his openers still rocked out.

verbo transitivo

1
(gently)
(cradle) mecer
(child) acunar
she rocked the child in her arms — acunó al niño en sus brazos
- he rocked Louise to sleep — acunó a Louise hasta que se durmió
2
(violently)
sacudir
estremecer
the scandal rocked New York — el escándalo convulsionó / conmocionó a Nueva York

nombre

1
(music)
rock masculino
(band/singer/star/concert) (before noun) de rock
(music) rock
heavy/soft rock — rock duro/blando
- Before disco undermined the morale and minds of millions, rock rode the rails of success, scoring the soundtrack for that personal motion picture you were playing in your head.
- Back in the '60s and '70s I listened to Gordon Lightfoot a fair bit when I wanted to take a break from the harder rock that was the staple of my listening.
- He beat out no less than Sting and Paul McCartney, two rock idols who performed their own nominated songs.
- My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
- This is about as close to the sensory overload of a rock concert without actually being at a rock concert.
- Jill looked stunning, but she wasn't really dressed for a rock concert.
- The debt owed to past blues musicians by the giants of the rock industry - Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin among others - becomes apparent when you listen to their music.
- Rock movies, like rock songs, need not be original to be successful: get the chords right and the arrangements scarcely matter.
- The movie is a disappointment, and could have been a lot better if only he had gone out on a few more limbs than just the inclusion of a few rock tunes.
- The book tells of William's initiation into journalism and his adventures in the rock industry.
- One reason I really like the '70s era of rock, besides the fact I was a young man then, was that it was an era where musicians really tried to reach for the pinnacle of their abilities in their music.
- I was a fan of the band back in the '60s, before I got turned on to harder rock.
- We were all squealing like kids at a rock concert.
- He had organised a rock concert to coincide with one of the city's major sporting events.
- The alternative rock soundtrack is wonderfully raw as it blares from the speakers.
- The music is a bizarre score of upbeat string numbers, samba tunes, jazz numbers, rock ballads, and every other style thrown together in a peculiar 1980s-esque synthesized sort of way.