rock vs whin

rock and whin both are nouns.

rock is a verb but whin is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rock	Yes	No	Yes	No
whin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, whin is a hyponym of rock; that is, whin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rock:

rock: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
whin: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

Other hyponyms of rock include achondrite, bedrock, boulder, bowlder, calculus, concretion, chondrite, clastic rock, crystal, crystallization, intrusion, outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop, pebble, petrifaction, sill, stepping stone, tor, wall rock, whinstone, xenolith.

rock (noun)	whin (noun)
pitching dangerously to one side	any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western	small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)	very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

rock (verb)	whin (verb)
move back and forth or sideways
cause to move back and forth

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