See also: Bloc and błoć

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Borrowed from French bloc (group, block), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (beam, log). Doublet of block.

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bloc (plural blocs)

  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
    • 2020, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in 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.
  2. 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.
    The ECB is considering three main options ... but two of them could hurt confidence in the bloc's most indebted states, ... (Reuters)
    Climate change a security risk for EU, say bloc's foreign policy chiefs (EUobserver)
    military bloc

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Borrowed from French bloc.

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. block
  2. pad, notebook
  3. bloc
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Borrowed from English blog.

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of blog
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  • Recommend spelling (by TERMCAT) until 2013, when blog was accepted by the IEC.

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Inherited 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 *blukką (beam, log).

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. a block (e.g., of wood)
  2. a bloc, an alliance
  3. a pad of paper
  4. (computing) block (of memory, of code)

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  • Asturian: bloque
  • Bulgarian: блок (blok)
  • Czech: bloc
  • English: bloc
  • Galician: bloque
  • Italian: bloc
  • Macedonian: блок (blok)
  • Norwegian: block
  • Persian: بلوک (blok)
  • Polish: blok
  • Portuguese: bloco
  • Romanian: bloc
  • Russian: блок (blok)
  • Spanish: bloc, bloque
  • Turkish: blok

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Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.

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bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)

  1. block

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bloc bhloc mbloc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Borrowed from French bloc, German Blockhaus.

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bloc n (plural blocuri)

  1. block (a big chunk of solid matter)
    Synonym: bucată
    bloc de gheațăblock of ice
  2. a heap or an ensemble of objects of the same type that form a unity
    bloc de desendrawing block
  3. apartment building (a big residential building with apartments)
    Synonym: (rare) blochaus
  4. alliance, union (a coalition between different states, parties, groups etc. to achieve a common goal)
    Synonym: alianță

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Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈblok/ [ˈblok]
  • Rhymes: -ok
  • Syllabification: bloc

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. pad (such as of paper)

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