Translation
block, lump (a solid mass); bloc (a group acting together)
Word origin
From French bloc and German Block, both from a Germanic word for a log or tree stump. Everything else the word means, from a block of flats to a voting bloc, is a metaphor built on that single heavy lump of timber.
- Origin
- French and German
- Root
- bloc
- English cognates
- block, bloc, blockade
Examples
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He sat on a large block of stone.
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They built the wall out of blocks of wood.
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Our house is on the same block.
The noun and the verb are separate entries and both are common: is the solid lump, bloki is to obstruct. They are historically the same word - a felled log across a road blocks it - but do not assume the noun always implies the verb, because a of houses obstructs nothing. Watch the political sense too: is a bloc of parties or states acting together, and it takes no special marking. For the thing you write on, notbloko is a notepad, and blokletero is a printed capital.
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