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- proper noun A
topographic surname for someone living near arock or anoak (atter +oke ). - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname. - proper noun preceded by "the" or "The"
Nickname ofGibraltar . - proper noun preceded by "the" or "The" Nickname of the
prison onAlcatraz Island , USA. - proper noun Canada, preceded by "the" or "The" Nickname of the island of
Newfoundland in the Canadian province ofNewfoundland and Labrador .
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Examples
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Summer-camp-related factoid of the day: rock, paper, and scissors represent only the three least interesting of the five possible throws in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
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Besides this whole 'rock star' persona she wants to portait doesn't work - her music is far from Rock.
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MAHER: We were at the dome -- we were standing right next to the rock, the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed flew up to heaven.
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MAHER: We were at the dome -- we were standing right next to the rock, the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed flew up to heaven.
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MAHER: We were at the dome -- we were standing right next to the rock, the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed flew up to heaven.
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MAHER: We were at the dome -- we were standing right next to the rock, the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed flew up to heaven.
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Consider Everest and some precisely defined hunk of rock, ice and snow, Rock, of which it is indeterminate whether its boundaries coincide with those of Everest.
Identity Noonan, Harold 2006
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He tells how he was commanded by an angel to mount a horse that lept from Mecca to Medina and then to the rock in Jerusalem that today is enclosed by the Dome Of the Rock.
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It will be the rock in the wilderness that supplied the camp of Israel with water, and that Rock is Christ.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary Kline, John 1900
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As there was but one rock in the wilderness from which all the tribes of Israel were supplied with natural water, so to us, God's spiritual Israel, there is but one Rock from which flows to us the water of life, and that Rock is Christ Jesus in his Word.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary Kline, John 1900
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