Bloch

[ blok ]

/ blɒk /

noun

Ernest,1880–1959, Swiss composer, in the U.S. after 1916.

Felix,1905–83, Swiss physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1952.

Konrad E.,1912–2000, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.

Example sentences from the Web for bloch

“Never in a business like this do you see a celebrity pay for another celebrity,” Bloch told Us Weekly.

Vittorio Missoni’s Bag Found in Caribbean; Charlie Sheen Paid for Lindsay Lohan’s Wardrobe Disaster |The Fashion Beast Team |February 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Two women on the terrace near Bloch and Virgitti testified that they never heard Galliano utter the word “Jewish” at all.

John Galliano in the Courtroom |Tracy McNicoll |June 23, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
You can credit Paster and Bloch with starting the Great Stylist Wars of the 1990s.

Battle of the Oscar Stylists |Merle Ginsberg |February 20, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
I think what I was trying to say is that there aren't any anti-Semitic portraits in Céline as deadly as Bloch in Proust.

My Conversation with John Updike |Barbara Probst Solomon |January 29, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

By December, Bloch, who had seemed utterly discredited in August, was justified up to the hilt.

What is Coming? |H. G. Wells
Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth-century expert on sex.

The Planet with No Nightmare |Jim Harmon
And so, utterly despondent, I renounced literature for ever, despite the encouragements that had been given me by Bloch.

Swann's Way |Marcel Proust
But with the "Trois Poèmes juives," the original Bloch is at hand.

Musical Portraits |Paul Rosenfeld
Bloch's themes oftentimes have the subtle, far-flung, monotonous line of the synagogic chants.

Musical Portraits |Paul Rosenfeld

British Dictionary definitions for bloch

Bloch

/ (blɒk) /

noun

Ernest . 1880–1959, US composer, born in Switzerland, who found inspiration in Jewish liturgical and folk music: his works include the symphonies Israel (1916) and America (1926)

Felix . 1905–83, US physicist, born in Switzerland: Nobel prize for physics (1952) for his work on the magnetic moments of atomic particles

Konrad Emil . 1912–2000, US biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1964 for his work on fatty-acid metabolism

(French blɔk) Marc . 1886–1944, French historian and Resistance fighter; author of Feudal Society (1935) and Strange Defeat (1940), an essay on the fall of France: killed by the Nazis

Medical definitions for bloch

Bloch

[ blŏk, blôKH ]

Konrad Emil 1912-2000

German-born American biochemist. He shared a 1964 Nobel Prize for research on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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