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Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.
Greg MacGillivray

Meaning of "rock-steady" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCK-STEADY

rock-steady  [ˌrɒkˈstɛdɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCK-STEADY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rock-Steady is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ROCK-STEADY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rock-steady in the English dictionary

The definition of rock-steady in the dictionary is absolutely steady; as steady as a rock.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROCK-STEADY


already
ɔːlˈrɛdɪ
bready
ˈbrɛdɪ
combat-ready
ˌkɒmbætˈrɛdɪ
eddy
ˈɛdɪ
gingerbready
ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛdɪ
heady
ˈhɛdɪ
leady
ˈlɛdɪ
NEDC
ˈnɛdɪ
neddy
ˈnɛdɪ
Pedi
ˈpɛdɪ
predy
ˈprɛdɪ
ready
ˈrɛdɪ
reddy
ˈrɛdɪ
shreddy
ˈʃrɛdɪ
steady
ˈstɛdɪ
teddy
ˈtɛdɪ
thready
ˈθrɛdɪ
unready
ʌnˈrɛdɪ
unsteady
ʌnˈstɛdɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCK-STEADY

rock wallaby
rock wool
rock-and-roll
rock-bottom
rock-bound
rock-climb
rock-girt
rock-hard
rock-ribbed
rock-solid
rock´n´roll
rockabilly
rockable
rockabye
Rockall
rockaway
rockcress
Rockefeller
rocker
rocker arm

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCK-STEADY

at the ready
beady
go steady
Macready
make ready
make-ready
nonsteady
oven-ready
rock steady
rough-and-ready
shovel-ready
the ready
touch-ready

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

岩石稳定
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rock-steady
570 millions of speakers

English

rock-steady
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रॉक स्थिर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صخرة ثابتة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Несносимые
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

- rock steady
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

岩定常
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바위 정상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rock-steady
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đá ổn định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராக்-நிலைத்திருக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॉक-स्थिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaya istikrarlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rock- steady
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rock- stały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зносяться
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

-rock de echilibru
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροκ - σταθερή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rock - bestendige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rock- steady
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 68.858 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK-STEADY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rock-steady

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2 QUOTES WITH «ROCK-STEADY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rock-steady.
1
Jimmy Cliff
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
2
Greg MacGillivray
Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

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.
1
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
2
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
3
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 ...
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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 ...
9
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
10
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 ...

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« EDUCALINGO. Rock-Steady [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/rock-steady-1>. Apr 2024 ».
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