What (who) is block - definition
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block
(blocks, blocking, blocked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
...blocks of council flats.
...a white-painted apartment block.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n
2.
A block in a town is an area of land with streets on all its sides.
She walked four blocks down High Street...
He walked around the block three times.
N-COUNT
3.
A block of a substance is a large rectangular piece of it.
...a block of ice.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
4.
To block a road, channel, or pipe means to put an object across it or in it so that nothing can pass through it or along it.
Some students today blocked a highway that cuts through the center of the city...
He can clear blocked drains.
VERB: V n, V-ed
5.
If something blocks your view, it prevents you from seeing something because it is between you and that thing.
...a row of spruce trees that blocked his view of the long north slope of the mountain.
= obstruct
VERB: V n
6.
If you block someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place by standing in front of them.
I started to move round him, but he blocked my way...
VERB: V n
7.
If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done.
For years the country has tried to block imports of various cheap foreign products...
VERB: V n
8.
A block of something such as tickets or shares is a large quantity of them, especially when they are all sold at the same time and are in a particular sequence or order.
Those booking a block of seats get them at reduced rates.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
9.
If you have a mental block or a block, you are temporarily unable to do something that you can normally do which involves using, thinking about, or remembering something.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
10.
11.
block
n.
interruption
obstacle
1) (Am. football) to throw a block at smb.
2) a mental block (when it comes to word games, I have a mental block)
3) (med.) a heart; nerve; saddle block
4) a stumbling block
street
city square
(AE)
5) a city block (the building occupies an entire city block)
6) around the block; in, on a block (they went around the block; they live in this block)
apartment house
(BE)
7) a council block
8) a tower block ('a high-rise apartment')
9) (misc.) a block of flats
platform
10) a butcher's; chopping; headsman's block
auctioneer's platform
11) the auction block
12) on the block ('being auctioned')
group
bloc
13) a trade block
rectangular unit used in construction
14) a building; cinder; concrete block
support
brace
15) a starting block (for a runner)
section of text
(computers)
16) to copy; delete; end; move a block
block
1. <unit> A unit of data or memory, often, but not
exclusively, on a magnetic disk or magnetic tape.
Compare record, sector.
(2000-07-17)
2. <operating system> To delay or sit idle while waiting for
something.
Compare busy-wait.
(2000-07-17)
3. <programming> A delimited section of source code in a
block-structured language.
(2004-09-29)
Pronunciation examples for block
1. I'm like, block, block, block.
The Story Behind Iconic Surf Photographs _ Todd Glaser _ Talks at Google
2. block by block,
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3. But you have block upon block upon block upon block
Revolutionary Change _ Jeff Johnson + More _ Talks at Google
4. and block by block.
The Hunger Campaign _ Diane Soligner + More _ Talks at Google
5. upon block upon block?
The New Rules Of Posture - How To Sit, Stand and Walk _ Mary Bond _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of block
1. Likewise, parents block grandparents, and grandparents block great–grandparents.
2. Block by block, the neighborhood was being searched.
3. Block by block, it is receding into the past tense.
4. Bombs have reduced block after block there to rubble.
5. Passengers can see block upon block of similar destruction.