What's the difference between locker and rocker?

Locker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, locks.
  • (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
  • (2) Professional locker rooms have long been apolitical places – at least on the surface – given the kind of money at stake both in salary and endorsements.
  • (3) And creating a locker room where there's responsibility and accountability.
  • (4) Read more Like everyone on the Tour, Sharapova will have heard locker-room whispers of skulduggery, real or imagined.
  • (5) The South Dakota bill, which would mandate school restroom facilities and locker rooms “be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex”, passed the state senate and awaits a decision from the state’s Republican governor, Dennis Daugaard, who is said to be favorable to the bill.
  • (6) As I walked through the reception area and into the locker rooms and saunas themselves, I spotted old magazines littered on mid-century coffee tables and pictures of Finnish pin-ups adorning the wood-panelled walls.
  • (7) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.
  • (8) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
  • (9) That even though he plays the biggest leadership position on the field and once took the 49ers within yards of winning a Super Bowl , he has been a distant presence in the locker room.
  • (10) I have a feeling that this one might stand for a while.” Golden State stormed to an early lead behind Curry’s hot shooting, heading into the locker room at half time leading by 20 points.
  • (11) But there was disappointment on Monday for Lee Pearson, the dressage rider who had nine gold medals in his locker coming into the Games and was one of the most recognisable faces of the build-up.
  • (12) The so-called "cloud-based locker" stores peoples' photos, films and purchased music online so that they can be accessed on a number of devices.
  • (13) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
  • (14) This was a film American conservatives complained was a pro-Obama manifesto, but the Academy has evidently decided that it was at all events pretty strong meat, maybe too strong and less obviously sympathetic to the American fighting man than Bigelow's last Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker.
  • (15) Although he did afterwards hug his charge in an awkward locker room embrace, it was soon broken up when another member of Murray's team covered them both with champagne and the Czech began swearing.
  • (16) Of those, 80m are expected to be collected from stores or other handy locations such as lockers or post offices, according to Starkey.
  • (17) We needed guys that had been in a winning locker room if possible.
  • (18) (Neither does the movie – the eight-year-long war in Iraq, which was the subject of The Hurt Locker – is conspicuous by its absence.)
  • (19) Asked by the MP Jim Cousins whether any regulator was ever able to contain the "locker room" culture of banks, Turner said: "Regulators can do a very much better job than in the past."
  • (20) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.

Rocker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
  • (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
  • (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
  • (n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
  • (n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
  • (n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
  • (n.) Same as Rock shaft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Double-limb support was decreased by 9% in the rocker shoes in free walking.
  • (2) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
  • (3) The apparatus consists of a set of hand and foot bars mounted at either end of a rocker arm that pivots in a vertical plane.
  • (4) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
  • (5) A centrally placed rocker heel leads to increased forefoot loads, especially under the first metatarsal head.
  • (6) You looked out and it was just a sea of dogs: a lot of rocker dogs, but also some droolers in the front row.
  • (7) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
  • (8) Sorrentino, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for The Great Beauty, has worked with English-speaking actors before, having cast Sean Penn in his goth-rocker road movie This Must Be the Place , which was selected for the Cannes film festival.
  • (9) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
  • (10) The rockers' 13th studio album is reportedly out in April through U2's new deal with Island Records , with live dates sure to follow.
  • (11) A detailed ultrasonographic study of the craniofacial structures, intrathoracic organs, and limbs showed scalp edema, multiple ankyloses, camptodactyly, rocker-bottom feet, cardiac arrhythmias, and lung hypoplasia.
  • (12) Findings compatible with trisomy 18 included postmature delivery, prominent occiput, severe congenital heart disease, overlapping fingers, and rocker-bottom feet.
  • (13) The night’s other performances maintained the tradition of non-tradition as rapper Kendrick Lamar performed with alt-rockers Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke sang alongside rock band Chicago and Stevie Wonder took the stage with electronic duo Daft Punk.
  • (14) He was a rocker and a brilliant dancer and he wore winklepickers and wraparound shades.
  • (15) A group of homeless juveniles (N = 50) was compared to a group of rockers (N = 46) and a further group of "normal" non-rockers (N = 132) as regards social background, attitudes to others, intelligence, performance motivation and further personality variables such as aggression, extraversion, neuroticism and rigidity.
  • (16) Their craniofacial skeleton is large and robust, with mandibular size and form (the "rocker" mandible) being especially characteristic.
  • (17) It had quite an impact, not least that human attractions such as US stadium rockers Heart and Willie Nelson declined to play at the theme park in Orlando.
  • (18) ITV1's detective drama Lewis pulled in 6 million viewers on Easter Sunday, 12 April, for a special episode featuring Joanna Lumley as an ageing rocker.
  • (19) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
  • (20) Madonna has voiced hope that three feminist Russian rockers from the band Pussy Riot who are on trial for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin are released soon.