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roc

 (rŏk)
n.
A mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.

[Arabic ruḫḫ.]
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roc

(rɒk)
n
(Non-European Myth & Legend) (in Arabian legend) a bird of enormous size and power
[C16: from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh]

ROC

abbreviation for
(Military) Royal Observer Corps
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roc

(rɒk)

n.
(in medieval Asian literature and lore, as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) a predatory bird of great size and strength.
[1570–80; < Arabic rukhkh, probably < Persian rukh; compare rook2]
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Noun1.roc - mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strengthroc - mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength
mythical creature, mythical monster - a monster renowned in folklore and myth
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References in classic literature ?
A fowl of monstrous size, called a roc, will appear in the air, taking you to be a sheep.
In a few minutes the roc appeared, and bore me off to the top of the mountain in his huge claws as lightly as if I had been a feather, for this great white bird is so strong that he has been known to carry even an elephant to his nest in the hills.
The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut the threads that bound me, and the sight of me in my proper clothes so alarmed the roc that he spread his wings and flew away.
I left the terrace and wandered on till I came to a hall, which I knew to have been the one from which the roc had taken me, by the ten blue sofas against the wall.
The exquisite colouring and forms astonished and charmed him, who had scarcely ever seen any but a hen's egg or an ostrich's, and by the time he was lugged away to bed he had learned the names of at least twenty sorts, and dreamed of the glorious perils of tree- climbing, and that he had found a roc's egg in the island as big as Sinbad's, and clouded like a tit-lark's, in blowing which Martin and he had nearly been drowned in the yolk.
If a roc, an eagle, a griffin, a flying elephant, a winged sea-horse, had suddenly appeared, and, taking him on its back, carried him bodily into the heart of the 'Salwanners,' it would have been to him as an everyday occurrence, in comparison with what he now beheld.
If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.
The Fairy Peribanou had fled into the inmost cavern with Prince Ahmed: the Roc had whisked away Sindbad the Sailor out of the Valley of Diamonds out of sight, far into the clouds: and there was everyday life before honest William; and a big boy beating a little one without cause.
These birds were of enormous size, and reminded Zeb of the rocs he had read about in the Arabian Nights.
"'No sooner had we got rid of these birds, which occasioned us great annoyance, than we were terrified by the appearance of a fowl of another kind, and infinitely larger than even the rocs which I met in my former voyages; for it was bigger than the biggest of the domes on your seraglio, oh, most Munificent of Caliphs.
Like ROE, ROC is used to measure the profitability of a business but with much improvement.
Since then, ROC has grown and diversified its services, culminating with the acquisition of a 11,800sq ft premises within Westhill Business Park in April 2019.