Bloch

[ blok ]

noun

1. Ernest, 1880–1959, Swiss composer, in the U.S. after 1916.
2. Felix, 1905–83, Swiss physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1952.
3. Konrad E., 1912–2000, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.

Bloch

/ blɒk /

noun

1. BlochErnest18801959MUSSwissMUSIC: composer 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)
2. BlochFelix19051983MUSSwissSCIENCE: physicist Felix . 1905–83, US physicist, born in Switzerland: Nobel prize for physics (1952) for his work on the magnetic moments of atomic particles
3. BlochKonrad Emil19122000MUSGermanSCIENCE: chemist 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
4. blɔk BlochMarc18861944MFrenchHISTORY: historianPOLITICS: resistance fighter 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

Example Sentences

Both she and Bloch are polished actors who are here afflicted with Icon Portrayal Syndrome, a peculiar condition whose symptoms include a tendency to key on one ennobling character trait and cling to it for dear life.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

You'd think this was straight out of Psycho (an adaptation of a book by Robert Bloch, by the way).

From The Daily Beast

Two women on the terrace near Bloch and Virgitti testified that they never heard Galliano utter the word “Jewish” at all.

From The Daily Beast

You can credit Paster and Bloch with starting the Great Stylist Wars of the 1990s.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

Pauli and his assistant Bloch visited once a Kabbalistic Jew on a very stormy night.

From Project Gutenberg

The Jews determined to oppose their work, and Julius Bloch was one of the foremost to stone them.

From Project Gutenberg

As a Jew, Bloch carried within himself a fragment of the Orient; was in himself an outpost of the mother of continents.

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But there is music of Ernest Bloch that is a large, a poignant, an authentic expression of what is racial in the Jew.

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Bloch's themes oftentimes have the subtle, far-flung, monotonous line of the synagogic chants.

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