Roc vs Eagle - What's the difference?
roc | eagle |
An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
* The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
(heraldiccharge) A representation of such a bird carried as an emblem, e.g. on a coat of arms.
(US, currency) A gold coin with a face value of $10.00 formerly used in the United States.
(golf) A score of two under par for a hole.
(golf) To score an eagle.
As nouns the difference between roc and eagle
is that roc is an enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend while eagle is any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.As an initialism ROC
is the Royal Observer Corps, a United Kingdom defence organisation (1925 to 1992).As a verb eagle is
to score an eagle.As a proper noun Eagle is
the landing unit of Apollo 11.roc
English
Alternative forms
* roche * rok * rukhNoun
(en noun)- "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc', and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the ' roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;