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With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching.
Greg MacGillivray

Meaning of "rock steady" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCK STEADY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCK STEADY

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Rock steady is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROCK STEADY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966. A successor to ska and a precursor to reggae, rocksteady was performed by Jamaican vocal harmony groups such as The Gaylads, The Maytals, The Heptones and The Paragons. The term rocksteady comes from a dance style that was mentioned in the Alton Ellis song "Rock Steady". Dances performed to rocksteady were less energetic than the earlier ska dances. The first international rocksteady hit was "Hold Me Tight" by the American soul singer Johnny Nash; it reached number one in Canada.

Definition of rock steady in the English dictionary

The definition of rock steady in the dictionary is a type of slow Jamaican dance music of the 1960s.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCK STEADY

rock oil
rock opera
rock painting
rock partridge
rock pigeon
rock pipit
rock plant
rock pool
rock python
rock rabbit
rock salmon
rock salt
rock samphire
rock snake
rock star
rock the boat
rock tripe
rock up
rock wallaby
rock wool

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCK STEADY

already
at the ready
beady
bready
combat-ready
go steady
heady
leady
Macready
nonsteady
oven-ready
ready
rock-steady
rough-and-ready
shovel-ready
steady
the ready
thready
unready
unsteady

Synonyms and antonyms of rock steady in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rock steady» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCK STEADY

Find out the translation of rock steady to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rock steady from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rock steady» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

稳如泰山
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Rock Steady
570 millions of speakers

English

rock steady
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थिर रॉक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

صخرة ثابتة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Rock Steady
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rocha firme
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিচলিত শিলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rock steady
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berdiri teguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rock Steady
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ロックステディ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정상 바위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rock steady
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đá ổn định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராக் சீராக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्थिर रॉक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kaya sarsılmaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rock steady
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Rock Steady
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Rock Steady
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Rock Steady
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

rock steady
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

rotsvas
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

vagga stadig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Rock Steady
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rock steady

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK STEADY»

The term «rock steady» is regularly used and occupies the 68.857 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rock steady

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Greg MacGillivray
With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCK STEADY»

Discover the use of rock steady in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rock steady and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Caribbean Popular Music: An Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, ...
Explore the singers, songwriters, history, culture, and even fashions of reggae and Caribbean music in this extensive A-Z encyclopedia appropriate for college and high school students as well as anyone who loves reggae music.
David Vlado Moskowitz, 2006
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Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music
And then I hear Gladdy say "This one rock steady you know. This one a rock steady." And that's when it came into being basically. This was October 1966. 'But I wouldn't consider myself the founder of rocksteady. It's a "buck up" thing really.
Kevin O'Brien Chang, Wayne Chen, 1998
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Vibe
To the hip hop community, it was always "Rock Steady Park," named for The Rock Steady Crew. The Rock Steady Crew are regarded as the best all-time B- boys (the True-School term for breakdancers). They are an ethnically mixed group that ...
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No Doubt -- Rock Steady: Authentic Guitar TAB/Bass TAB
This album-matching folio features four pages of four-color photos, plus all the hit songs.
No Doubt, 2002
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B-Boys: A Children's Guide to Hip Hop
Around 1977 a group of kids from different parts of the Bronx formed a dance crew and called themselves The Rock Steady Crew. In 1979 a kid named Crazy Legs joined Rock Steady, and he later created a chapter of Rock Steady in ...
Lamont Clark, 2013
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Black Male Adolescents: Parenting and Education in Community ...
(or Rock Steady — Let's Call this Song Exactly What It Is) Peter Harris Send me some hair of the children's hair in a separate paper with their names on the paper . . . You know how I am about my children. You know I am one man that do love ...
Benjamin P. Bowser, 1994
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African ...
Although the heyday of rock steady lasted for only two years, it brought critical and thematic innovations that strongly influenced the course of Jamaican music. By the mid-1960s, it was evident to working- and lower-class Jamaicans that JA-  ...
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2005
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ELLEgirl
In 2003, a b-boy (a dude who breaks) named Flea Rock invited Jeskilz to perform with him and the Rock Steady Crew in New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade. She thought it was just a onetime thing, but then–crew member Alien Ness took ...
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Rock Steady Group
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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Billboard
—RIC OCASEK, ROCK STEADY' CO-PRODUCER Virgin's Shortlist Puts Up-And -Comers In Spotlight Best Buy Coup On ... The result is an album made like no other No Doubt set — one that, as Rock Steady mixer/co- producer Spike Stent ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCK STEADY»

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Boxers work to knock out Parkinson's symptoms
In 2007, she found Rock Steady Boxing in Indianapolis. She now attends classes every week and has seen her symptoms ease as a result of a rigorous regimen ... «USA TODAY, Apr 13»

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