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Definition: Bloc |
BlocNoun1. A group of countries in special alliance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloc" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: BlocSynonym: axis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Whole | Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bloc |
| Etymologies containing "bloc": Block. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bloc" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bloc, block, body, brick, clot, dollop, erratic, gob, hunch, hunk, knob, lump, mass, pad, quod, unit), Romanian (blank, block, block of flats, mansion, unit), Spanish (Jotter, notepad, pad, tablet). |
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Lyrics | Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Vida en un bloc (1956) | |
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Business | As in other Soviet bloc countries, electoral participation was consistently high, with nearly unanimous candidate approval. (references) | |
Intra-MERCOSUR tariffs are currently at zero to facilitate trade among the countries of this economic bloc. Most extra-MERCOSUR tariffs for food processing equipment are 14 percent. (references) | ||
All are poised for sustained growth, both within South Africa and throughout the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional bloc of thirteen Southern African countries. (references) | ||
Economic History | Israel | The largest bloc in the opposition is left-wing Meretz, with 10 members. (references) |
Fiji | The Indo-Fijian parties' major voting bloc is made up of sugarcane farmers. (references) | |
Vietnam | However, Soviet and East Bloc economic aid ceased after the breakup of the Soviet Union. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Responding to the massacre, the army and navy captured 70 paramilitaries, including a paramilitary bloc commander, in a joint operation. (references) |
Colombia | On March 22, Roberto Carlos Delgado, leader of the AUC's Southern Liberators bloc, was captured along with five others including retired army colonel Jesus Uruena Paz. (references) | |
Political Economy | DENMARK | Denmark also welcomes foreign firms focused on doing business in the former East Bloc countries. (references) |
Political Rights | Armenia | In December 2000, this bloc split and the minority faction renamed itself "Peoples Deputies"; however, both factions continued to support the Government. (references) |
Burkina Faso | The new cabinet included four members from small opposition parties; however, the major opposition bloc, the Group of 14 February (G-14), refused to participate. (references) | |
Canada | The Canadian Alliance (conservative) won 66 seats, the Bloc Quebecois (separatist) won 38 seats, the New Democratic Party (liberal) won 13 seats, and the Progressive Conservative Party (conservative) won 12 seats. (references) | |
Trade | New Zealand | Some New Zealand exporters have taken products in trade when partnering with cash poor countries such as the former Soviet bloc countries. (references) |
Italy | Under the terms of these agreements, most industrial products and certain processed agricultural products are exempt from import duties if traded within this trading bloc. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Australia | Union members must make up at least 50 percent of the delegates to ALP conferences, but unions do not participate or vote as a bloc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Take your complaints to the former eastern bloc of the Soviet Union or to Africa, or Third World nations, wherever you want, and tell them to clean up. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua, with full Cuban-Soviet bloc support, not only persecutes its people, the church, and denies a free press, but arms and provides bases for Communist terrorists attacking neighboring states. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That is why we have supported the democratic reformers in Russia and in the other states of the former Soviet bloc. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bloc" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.57% of the time. "Bloc" is used about 451 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 (singular) | 91.57% | 413 | 13,687 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.43% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Total | 100.00% | 451 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bloc": En bloc ♦ en bloc register signaling ♦ en bloc register signalling ♦ gold bloc ♦ sterling bloc. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bloc": bloc-based, bloc-building, bloc-free, bloc-like. | |
Ending with "bloc": choc-a-bloc, eastern-bloc, intra-bloc, non-bloc. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "bloc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bllok (block). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلة (agglomerate, agglomeration, block, body, bulk, chunk, clot, cluster, conglomeration, hunch, knob, lump, mass), مجموعة (aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, battery, block, body, case, collection, combination, community, company, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, pack, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team, troop), قالب للقبعات, جبهة (forehead, front). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | блок (block, bloom, brick, lump, pad, pig). (various references) | |
Chinese | 集團 (group), 团体 (Brotherhood). (various references) | |
Czech | blok (block, pile), seskupení (agglomeration, concentration). (various references) | |
Danish | blok-imprægnation (impregnation en bloc), blokforankring (anchorage en bloc), blokfarvning (staining en bloc), oestblok (Communist-bloc countries, Eastern bloc countries), hjerteblok (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart block, heart-block), guldblok (gold bloc), en bloc register signalling (en bloc register signaling, en bloc register signalling), dynamisk blok (dynamic bloc). (various references) | |
Dutch | blokverankering (anchorage en bloc), MF-signalering in blok (en bloc mf signalling), het oostelijk blok (Communist-bloc countries, Eastern bloc countries), het oostblok (Communist-bloc countries, Eastern bloc countries), hartblok (atrioventricular block, block, block dissociation, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart block, heart-block), goudblok (gold bloc), en bloc registersignalering (en bloc register signaling, en bloc register signalling), dynamisch blok (dynamic bloc). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسدودکردن (Bar, Block, Calk, Choke, Clog, Close, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Preclude, Scotch), مانع ورادع (Block), مانع شدن از (Block), کنده (Block, Chump, Stock, Stub, Timber), قلنبه (Baggy, Block, Bombastic, Hunch, Lump, Lumpy, Nub, Outstanding, Pone, Sonorous, Stilted, Stodgy), قطعه (Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), قالب کردن (Block, Cake, Form, Found), توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), جعبه قرقره (Block), انسداد (Block, Blockade, Blockage, Choke, Let, Obstruction, Occlusion, Padlock, Stockade), اتحاددویاچنددسته بمنظورخاصی (Block), بنداوردن (Block, Stanch, Stem, Stop), بلوک (Block, District), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle), بازداشتن (Arrest, Bar, Block, Contain, Debar, Detain, Deter, Encumber, Impede, Interdict, Prevent, Stay, Stow). (various references) | |
Finnish | rekisterin lohkosignalointi (en bloc register signaling, en bloc register signalling). (various references) | |
French | bloc (block), forme. (various references) | |
German | block (block, ingot, pad). (various references) | |
Greek | συνασπισμόσ (coalition), συνασπισμός (coalition), μλοκ (block), ομάδα (group, team). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קואליציה (coalition). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koalíció (coalition). (various references) | |
Indonesian | blok (block, obstruct). (various references) | |
Italian | blocco (block, pad, blockade, lock), coalizione (coalition). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブローチ盤 (block, blockbuster, blocker, blocking, blocking signal, broaching machine, broadcast, broadcloth, Broadway, brocade, broiler, Brownie, Browning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブロック (block). (various references) | |
Korean | 블록. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bloco (block, pad). (various references) | |
Russian | блок (pulley). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | blok (pad). (various references) | |
Spanish | bloque político. (various references) | |
Swedish | block (block, pad, pulley). (various references) | |
Thai | ทั้งหมด (en bloc, full monty, gross, overall). (various references) | |
Turkish | blok (block). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | блок (alignment, alinement). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | toàn bộ gộp cả lại (en bloc), khối các nước lấy vàng làm bản vị tiền tệ (gold bloc). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | bloc. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | bloc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloc": block, blockade, blockaded, blockader, blockaders, blockades, blockading, blockage, blockages, blockbuster, blockbusters, blockbusting, blockbustings, blocked, blocker, blockers, blockhead, blockheads, blockhouse, blockhouses, blockier, blockiest, blocking, blockish, blocks, blocky, blocs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bloc": backblock, backblocks, breechblock, breechblocks, cellblock, cellblocks, chockablock, cinderblock, cinderblocks, counterblockade, counterblockaded, counterblockades, counterblockading, roadblock, roadblocked, roadblocking, roadblocks, subblock, subblocks, sunblock, sunblocks, superblock, superblocks, unblock, unblocked, unblocking, unblocks, woodblock, woodblocks. (additional references) | |
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"Bloc" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aloc, belic, Bellocq, Bilic, Bilocca, blac, blacl, Bliecq, blo, Blocul, blod, bloe, blog, blok, blokr, blon, Blonc, bloo, blook, blop, blor, blos, bloss, blov, blox, Bloy, bmoc, Bnoc, boc, Bolca, Bolic, bolk, booc, Brlog, Broc, bylo, gloc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloc" (pronounced blÄ"k) |
| 4 | b l Ä" k | block. |
| 3 | -l Ä" k | antilock, clock, floc, flock, interlock, Loch, lock, schlock, unlock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-l-o" | |
-1 letter: cob, col, lob. | |
-2 letters: bo, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-l-o" | |
+1 letter: block, blocs, cibol, clomb, coble. | |
+2 letters: beclog, blocks, blocky, blotch, boucle, cibols, cobalt, cobble, cobles, colobi, corbel. | |
+3 letters: aboulic, bacalao, backlog, balcony, becloak, beclogs, becloud, beclown, bicolor, bifocal, binocle, blocked, blocker, blotchy, boucles, bricole, brocoli, bucolic, bullock, cabildo, callboy, cembalo, ciboule, clobber, coalbin, coalbox, cobalts, cobbled, cobbler, cobbles, codable, colobus, corbeil, corbels, coulomb, cowbell, ecbolic, embolic, lockbox, placebo, subcool, unblock, vocable, vocably. | |
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