What's the difference between rocked and rucked?

Rocked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rock

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
  • (3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
  • (4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
  • (7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
  • (9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
  • (11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
  • (12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
  • (13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
  • (14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
  • (15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
  • (16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
  • (17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
  • (18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
  • (20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.

Rucked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ruck

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
  • (2) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (3) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
  • (4) You see, I have a lot of truck with the sack of ruck.
  • (5) Farrelly's question had concerned the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of Trafigura and Carter-Ruck obtaining the original injunction, which banned any references to the Minton report on the alleged dumping in Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
  • (6) Increased risk of injury was related to the following factors: 98% of injuries occurred in matches and 81% were incurred by adults; 69% of injuries occurred in age-group A team or senior first team players; and 57% of injuries occurred in the tackle situation and 39% in scrums, rucks and mauls.
  • (7) It was on 11 September that Carter-Ruck, the libel specialists employed by the London-based trading company, first went to court to get an emergency super-injunction preventing the Guardian from publishing the Minton report.
  • (8) Proposals being circulated online included plans for a protest outside the offices of Carter-Ruck.
  • (9) The Guardian had been prevented from publishing a parliamentary question from MP Paul Farrelly about the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of a high court injunction obtained by Trafigura and Carter-Ruck "on the publication of the Minton report".
  • (10) It asked about the injunction obtained by "Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton Report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast , commissioned by Trafigura".
  • (11) In view of the seriousness of this, will you accept representations from me over this matter and consider whether Carter-Ruck's behaviour constitutes a potential contempt of parliament?"
  • (12) Peter Bottomley, Tory MP for Worthing West, threatened to report Carter-Ruck to the Law Society.
  • (13) And even if they try, Carter-Ruck can probably issue a gagging order that follows them into the afterlife and kicks their larynx off its hinges.
  • (14) MPs debated how Carter-Ruck had been able to stop the Guardian reporting a parliamentary question tabled by the Labour MP Paul Farrelly relating to an injunction awarded by Trafigura.
  • (15) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
  • (16) This PDF document is the 'super-injunction' which Trafigura and Carter-Ruck used to gag the Guardian (and "persons unknown") on September 11.
  • (17) Cameron Doley, managing partner with Carter-Ruck, denied that his firm had any involvement with Mosley, who he said was not a client.
  • (18) Brown spoke after Conservative Peter Bottomley told MPs he was reporting Carter-Ruck , the law firm that acted on behalf of Trafigura, to the Law Society, saying that no lawyers should be able to inhibit the reporting of parliament.
  • (19) Carter-Ruck agreed to release the Guardian from the injunction on Friday night after the existence of the Minton report into the disaster, commissioned by Trafigura, was revealed in parliament.
  • (20) Privilege was never better used than in the case of the oil-trading firm Trafigura , which hired British lawyers Carter-Ruck to gain a superinjunction against journalists who sought to investigate the firm's behaviour in attempting to cover up a massive dumping of toxic waste off Ivory Coast.

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