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Definition: Blockading |
BlockadingAdjective1. Blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors; "the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blockading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Crosswords: Blockading |
| English words defined with "blockading": Blockader. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Drawing by George H. Rogers, depicting the ship "on blockading service off the coast of Florida, winter of 1863". The artist served on board Adela as a Pharmacist's Mate. Credit: NAVY. |  | Lithograph after a drawing by T.F. Laycock, published by Endicott & Co., New York, 1865, depicting the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in preparation for its capture. The print is dedicated to Commodore S.W. Godon, USN. Ships present, as named on the original print, are identified in Photo Number LC-USZ62-144 (Complete Caption). Credit: NAVY. |
 | At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, circa 1865, while serving as flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Note the ruined buildings in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Most of the vessels near shore appear to be schooners, though some are barges and other small craft. Several steamships are in the distance, including a large former blockade runner in the center. Beyond her is USS Malvern, flagship of the commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the Federal blockading fleet near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Also shown, in left center, is what appears to be CSS Manassas. She attacked Union warships at Southwest Pass on 12 October 1861. Credit: NAVY. |  | Engraving by T. Shussler, after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". It depicts ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, prior to the ground assault that captured the fortification. Identifiable ships include: USS Monadnock (twin-turret monitor in the right center); USS Vanderbilt (grey two-stack side-wheel steamer in right foreground); and USS New Ironsides (at the right end of the main battle line). Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Bolivia | On June 28, protesters blockading the road from El Alto to Oruro beat Archbishop of El Alto Jesus Juarez Parraga. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | To complicate matters, the longshoreman's unions are attempting to maintain their current labor monopoly to the point of blockading the factory and (private) port of one company which had hired non-union port workers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blockading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Blockading" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "blockading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 封" (Blockade, Blockaded, blockage). (various references) | |
German | blockierend (blocking). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemblokiran (blockage). (various references) | |
Italian | bloccante. (various references) | |
Korean | 봉쇄. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockadingblay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "blockading": counterblockading. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blockading" (pronounced blÄ'kā"ding) |
| 5 | -k ā" d i ng | cascading. |
| 4 | -ā" d i ng | aiding, braiding, crusading, degrading, evading, fading, grading, invading, lading, masquerading, parading, persuading, pervading, raiding, serenading, shading, trading, upgrading, wading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, joyriding, kidding, kneading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, pending, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-g-i-k-l-n-o" | |
-2 letters: blacking, blocking, cloaking. | |
-3 letters: aboding, backing, backlog, balding, balking, cabildo, cabling, calking, coalbin, coaling, codling, daglock, docking, gonadic, lacking, lingcod, loading, locking, nodical. | |
-4 letters: agonic, albino, algoid, alnico, anodic, bagnio, baking, baling, bandog, boding, bodkin, bonaci, caking, calkin, coding, codlin, coking, daikon, dialog, doling, gabion, ganoid, globin, goblin, kalong, kaolin, lacing, lading, ladino. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-g-i-k-l-n-o" | |
+2 letters: roadblocking. | |
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