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Definition: BROCK |
BROCKNoun1. A brocket. 2. A badger. |
"BROCK" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a badger". |
Date "BROCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brock is a village located in Nemaha County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 162.Geography
Brock is located at 40°28'49" North, 95°57'36" West (40.480194, -95.959910)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 162 people, 68 households, and 43 families residing in the village. The population density is 201.8/km² (521.1/mi²). There are 77 housing units at an average density of 95.9/km² (247.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 95.06% White, 0.00% African American, 3.09% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.85% from two or more races. 1.85% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 68 households out of which 26.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.9% are married couples living together, 7.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.3% are non-families. 29.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 22.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.38 and the average family size is 2.98. In the village the population is spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 21.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 84.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.1 males. The median income for a household in the village is $26,250, and the median income for a family is $28,000. Males have a median income of $27,250 versus $17,813 for females. The per capita income for the village is $11,999. 11.5% of the population and 12.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.0% are under the age of 18 and 6.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brock, Nebraska."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brock, township in south-central Ontario, in the Regional Municipality of Durham in the Greater Toronto Area. The main centres in Brock are the towns of Sunderland, Cannington, and Beaverton.According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
- Population: 12,110
- % Change (1996-2001): 3.5
- Dwellings: 4,866
- Area (sq. km.): 423.73
- Density (persons per sq. km.): 28.6
North: Ramara West: Georgina
UxbridgeBrock East: Kawartha Lakes South: Scugog Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brock, Ontario."
Crosswords: BROCK |
| Specialty definitions using "BROCK": Merchant of Venice ♦ Slopard. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BROCK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (botch, bungle, cock-up, fiasco, hash, muddle, refuse, remains; badger, slip up, wastage), Swedish (rupture). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | General von Brock, you must prepare to destroy the Remagen bridge at the earliest possible moment (The Bridge at Remagen; writing credit: Roger O. Hirson; Richard Yates) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Landarzt Dr. Brock (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Schematic depiction of the osmotic stress action in the case of actin polymerization (Picture courtesy R.P. Rand, Brock U). Credit: NICHD. |  | The Wilderness, on the Brock road, 2nd Corps--May 11th 1864 / E.F. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rebel advance through the smoke, and seizure of a part of the breastworks on Brock road. The logs had caught fire. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Odice Brock working in his garden. Flint River Farms, Georgia, near Montezuma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Summer brock" by Karin Jonsson Commentary: "This lovely little brock ran thru a small town I visited on my vacation. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "BROCK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BROCK" is used about 62 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 62 | 42,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BROCK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brock | First name Male | 9,000 | 701 |
| Brock | Last name | 25,000 | 451 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Brock, NE (village, FIPS 6505) |
Expression using "BROCK": Brock rings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BROCK": brock-munchies. | |
Ending with "BROCK": Clutton-brock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
brock lesnar | 787 | brock lesnar pic | 33 |
brock stevie | 754 | brock lesnar wallpaper | 32 |
brock university | 589 | brock jennifer | 29 |
brock | 236 | brock lesner picture | 26 |
brock peter | 186 | brock lesnar.com | 25 |
brock lesner | 182 | isaac brock | 24 |
joan brock | 161 | brock lyrics stevie | 24 |
brock pierce | 127 | brock stevie street team | 23 |
chad brock | 99 | brock hotel | 22 |
brock plaza hotel | 71 | brock white | 22 |
brock plaza | 69 | brock berlin | 21 |
brock lesnar picture | 66 | aspen brock | 19 |
kelly le brock | 53 | brock lesnar tattoo | 18 |
kelly brock | 45 | brock joan story | 16 |
lou brock | 42 | brock contact | 15 |
steve brock | 37 | brock wheels | 15 |
david brock | 36 | brock plaza niagara falls | 15 |
brock lesnar wwe | 35 | brock fan fiction lesnar | 15 |
brock master | 35 | brock lesner wwe | 14 |
brock picture stevie | 34 | sir isaac brock | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BROCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Bajdosë. (various references) | |
Arabic | وليد الظبى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | язовец, Пор (Fitch, Fitchew). (various references) | |
Danish | Brock's ringe (Brock rings, Brock's rings), Brock-Graham's syndrom (Brock-Graham syndrome), mellemlapssyndrom (Brock-Graham syndrome). (various references) | |
Dutch | syndroom van Brock (Brock-Graham syndrome), middenkwabsyndroom (Brock-Graham syndrome). (various references) | |
French | Blaireau (brush, shaving brush). (various references) | |
German | Brock-Graham Syndrom (Brock-Graham syndrome), Brock Ringe (Brock rings, Brock's rings). (various references) | |
Greek | σύνδρομο Brock-Graham (Brock-Graham syndrome), δακτύλιοι Brock (Brock rings, Brock's rings). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Borz (badger). (various references) | |
Italian | Tasso (badger, rate, yew). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | texugo (badger), indivíduo velhaco. (various references) | |
Romanian | Bursuc (badger, growler, grumbler), Individ Antipatic. (various references) | |
Russian | Барсук, подонок (dregs, scumbag). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jazavac (badger). (various references) | |
Spanish | síndrome de Brock-Graham (Brock-Graham syndrome), anillos de Brock (Brock rings, Brock's rings). (various references) | |
Swedish | Grävling (badger). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Борсук. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đê tiện (hangdog, hat, reptile). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BROCK": brockage, brockages, brocket, brockets, brocks. (additional references) | |
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"BROCK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barocci, Barocco, Barock, Bjorck, Borck, Borcke, Broc, Brocca, broci, Brockly, Broeck, Brucke, Krock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BROCK" (pronounced brÄ"k) |
| 3 | -r Ä" k | Croc, crock, frock, Roc, rock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-k-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bock, cork, rock. | |
-2 letters: bro, cob, cor, kob, kor, orb, orc, rob, roc. | |
-3 letters: bo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: brocks. | |
+2 letters: bedrock, blocker, brocket, burdock, rockaby, roebuck. | |
+3 letters: backdoor, backdrop, backroom, beckoner, bedrocks, blockers, blockier, bookrack, brockage, brockets, buckaroo, buckayro, buckeroo, burdocks, cribwork, rockabye, roebucks, rollback, roorback. | |
+4 letters: backboard, backcourt, backcross, backdrops, backdropt, backrooms, backsword, beckoners, blockader, bookracks, brickwork, brockages, buckaroos, buckayros, buckboard, buckeroos, buckthorn, cocklebur, corkboard, cribworks, crookback, duckboard, goldbrick, horseback, kickboard, kickboxer, packboard, razorback, roadblock, rockabies, rockabyes, rockbound, rollbacks, roorbacks, scrapbook, tackboard, thornback, throwback, workbench. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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