Rock and Wave

Rock

Rock verb - To make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions.

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Wave and rock are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wave" instead a verb "Rock".

Nearby Words: rocky, rocking, rocked, rocker, rockery

Wave verb - To direct or notify by a movement or gesture.

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Rock and wave are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rock" instead a verb "Wave".

Nearby Words: waved, waving, wavy, wavelet, waveband

similar	similar rock	similar wave
original	original rock	original wave
single	single rock	single wave
simple	simple rock	simple wave
Other adjectives: small, large, big, great, enormous, huge, cold, early, literal, giant, red, magical, electric.

rock time

wave time

Killing Floor lives on rock tracks during a wave of a zed attack (if it's not playing some of the techno tracks).

Source: Autobots, Rock Out!
Their no-frills, hard rock blitzkrieg wound up carrying the alt-rock flag long past the time the wave ended.

Source: Music of Note
While the genre might be associated with long compositions with crescendos, many post-rock bands, especially from the "first wave" write relatively short songs.

Source: Post-Rock

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