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bloc
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- Homophone: block
Noun
bloc (plural blocs)
- A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
Derived terms
- black bloc
- Eastern Bloc
- Soviet Bloc
- trade bloc
Translations
Anagrams
- CLOB, LCBO
Catalan
Etymology
From French bloc
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?bl?k/
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- block
- bloc
Further reading
- “bloc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bloc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “bloc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bloc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl?k/
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- a block (e.g., of wood)
- a bloc, an alliance
- a pad of paper
- (computing) block (of memory, of code)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “bloc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.
Noun
bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)
- block
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- "bloc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blok/, [?blok]
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- pad (such as of paper)
bloc From the web:
- what blocks give villagers jobs
- what blocks the moon
- what blocks iron absorption
- what block are transition metals in
- what blocks wifi signals
- what block is durk from
- what blocks radiation
- what blocks are ghast proof
combine
English
Etymology
From Middle French combiner, from Late Latin comb?n?re, present active infinitive of comb?n? (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + b?n? (“two by two”).
Pronunciation
- Verb
- enPR: k?m-b?n', IPA(key): /k?m?ba?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Noun
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
- (US) enPR: käm'b?n, IPA(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
- Rhymes: -?mba?n
Verb
combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)
- (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
- (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
- (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
- (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
Synonyms
- See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.
Antonyms
- divide
- separate
- disunite
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
combine (plural combines)
- A combine harvester
- 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker
- When those combine wheels stops turnin'
And the hard days work is done
Theres a pub around the corner
It's the place we 'ave our fun
- When those combine wheels stops turnin'
- 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker
- A combination
- Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.
- An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
- Synonym: kombinat
- (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
- Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.
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Translations
Anagrams
- becomin'
Asturian
Verb
combine
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of combinar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.bin/
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of combinaison.
Noun
combine f (plural combines)
- (colloquial) trick, scheme
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
combine
- inflection of combiner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- combien
Further reading
- “combine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
combine
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of combinar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of combinar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of combinar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of combinar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kom?bine]
Verb
combine
- third-person singular present subjunctive of combina
- third-person plural present subjunctive of combina
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom?bine/, [kõm?bi.ne]
Verb
combine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of combinar.
combine From the web:
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- what combines during oxidation
- what combines to form rocks
- what combines to form proteins
- what combines directly with amino acids
- what combines with hydrogen ions
- what combines with proteins to make hemoglobin
- what combined to create revolution in russia
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