Bed rock
() The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Cascade
(n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook |
Cascade
(v. i.) To fall in a cascade. |
Cascade
(v. i.) To vomit. |
Cycle
(n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens |
Cycle
(n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order |
Cycle
(n.) An age |
Cycle
(n.) An orderly list for a given time |
Cycle
(n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. |
Cycle
(n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire |
Cycle
(n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. |
Cycle
(v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes |
Cycle
(v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle. |
Flow
() imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
Flow
(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid |
Flow
(v. i.) To become liquid |
Flow
(v. i.) To proceed |
Flow
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties |
Flow
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance |
Flow
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving |
Flow
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide |
Flow
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with varnish. |
Flow
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid |
Flow
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant |
Flow
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river |
Flow
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
Flow
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land |
Rock
(n.) See Roc. |
Rock
(n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft
() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff
(v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
work flow
workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
| rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
flow
stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
rock
careen
sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
| cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
| cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
| rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
| rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python
rock snake
Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake
Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
| Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
| Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge
rock partridge
Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove
rock pigeon
Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby
rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab
Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster
langouste
rock lobster
crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle
rock barnacle
Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper
crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
pika
mouse hare
rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel
Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax
rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish
Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass
rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind
Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty
Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel
butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bicycle
bike
wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
| cascade liquefier | an apparatus used to liquefy air or oxygen etc. |
| cascade transformer | a number of transformers in series, provides a high-voltage source |
| laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
pedicab
cycle rickshaw | a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling), used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs |
rock bit
roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden
rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
menorrhea
menstrual blood
menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
| rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
| rock concert | a performance of rock music |
rock 'n' roll
rock'n'roll
rock-andoll
rock and roll
rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
progressive rock
art rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the s, associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms, intended for listening and not dancing |
psychedelic rock
acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
punk rock
punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation, in part a reaction against progressive rock |
| cycle of rebirth | (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms |
| cycle oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon, a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons |
| cardiac cycle | the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next, an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles, the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram |
Carnot cycle
Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
| cycle | a periodically repeated sequence of events, a cycle of reprisal and retaliation |
shower
cascade | a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower, a little shower of rose petals, a sudden cascade of sparks |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |