Bloc vs Blot - What's the difference?
bloc | blot |
a group of voters or politicians who share common goals
a group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc
in specific contexts 'the bloc' may refer to:
# the countries in the Eurozone
# the countries in the European Union
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
* Shakespeare
(biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
(backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
to soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
* Gascoigne
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
* Shakespeare
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
* Rowe
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
* Dryden
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
* Cowley
As nouns the difference between bloc and blot
is that bloc is a group of voters or politicians who share common goals while blot is a blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.As a proper noun Bloc
is bloc Québécois.As a verb blot is
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.bloc
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Eastern Bloc * Soviet Bloc * trading blocAnagrams
* ----blot
English
Noun
(en noun)- inky blots
- This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Verb
- This paper blots easily.
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
- It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
- Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
- He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.