Meaning of block | Babel Free

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1. island (area of land surrounded by water)
2. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance
3. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. block (group of urban lots of property)
6. To be offered for sale.
7. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading
8. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
9. A surname from the Germanic languages
   countable, uncountable
10. A surname from German
    countable, uncountable
11. From a starting position, as in a race or contest: The company has in the past been slow out of the blocks to adapt to consumer tastes.
12. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn
13. A surname from Dutch
    countable, uncountable
14. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
15. To offer for sale.
16. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped
17. An English surname
    countable, uncountable
18. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
19. on the block, for sale at auction.
20. A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted
21. A Jewish surname
    countable, uncountable
22. A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
    dated
23. Segment of a match played to an agreed point requirement—usually 150 in title matches.
24. An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
    countable, uncountable
25. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
26. To draw up a preliminary plan or version of:adumbrate, draft, outline, rough in (or out), sketch.
27. An unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas, United States.
    countable, uncountable
28. A section of split logs used as fuel.
29. to make (progress) difficult or impossible. The crashed cars blocked the road. blokkeer يَحْجِزُ спирам bloquear (za)blokovat, zatarasit versperren blokere φράζω, εμποδίζωbloquear, obstruir tõkestama بندآوردن؛ مسدود کردن tukkia bloquer לַחֲסוֹם रोकना, बन्द करना zakrčiti eltorlaszol menghalangi hindra bloccare ふさぐ 봉쇄하다 užblokuoti, užtverti aizsprostot; bloķēt; aizkavēt menghalang versperrenblokkere, sperre, tetteblokować بندول bloquear a bloca преграждать, блокировать blokovať, zatarasiť bloki...
30. An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.
    countable, uncountable
31. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
32. something which blocks every approach to a place by land or sea. blokkade حِصارٌ блокада bloqueio blokáda die Blockade blokade αποκλεισμόςbloqueo blokaad محاصره saarto blocusמחסום नाकाबन्दी blokada, opsada blokád blokade hafnbann; herkví blocco 封鎖 봉쇄 blokada blokāde kepungan blokkadeblokadeblokada حصار، محاصره bloqueio blo­cadă блокада blokáda blokada blokada blockad การปิดล้อม abluka, kuşatma 封鎖物 затор ایسی چیز جو رکاوٹ کا باعث بنے sự tắc nghẽn 封锁物，阻碍物
33. The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
34. The ships blockaded the town. blokkeer يُحاصِرُ، يَفْرِضُ الحِصار блокирам bloquear blokovat blockieren blokere αποκλείω, φέρνω σε κατάσταση αποκλεισμού bloquear blokeerima محاصره کردن saartaa bloquer לַחֲסוֹם नाकाबंदी करना opkoliti elzár, blokád alá vesz memblokade loka, teppa; halda í kví/hafnbanni bloccare, stringere d'assedio 封鎖する 봉쇄하다 blokuoti bloķēt mengepung blokkerenblokkere dokonywać blokady محاصره کول fazer bloqueio a su­pune unei blocade блокировать blokovať blokirati blokirati blo...
35. In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
36. something causing a pipe etc to be blocked. a blockage in the pipe. verstopping انْسِداد пречка entupimento ucpání die Blockade prop; tilstopning φράξιμο (π.χ. σε σωλήνα) obstrucción takistus انسداد؛ گرفتگی tukos obstructionסתימה रुकावट, बाधा začep eldugulás penyumbatan stífla blocco つまったもの 봉쇄 kamštis aizsprostojums tersumbat verstoppingforstoppelsezatkanie نیول شوی، انسداد، بند entupimento înfundare закупорка upchatie zamašitev začepljenje stopp, blockering การอุดตัน tıkanma, tıkanıklık 阻塞 з...
    etc
37. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
38. A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
39. A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
40. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
41. A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
42. A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
43. A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
44. A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
45. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
46. A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
47. A yeargroup at Eton College.
48. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
49. The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
50. A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
51. A cellblock.
52. Something that prevents something from passing.
53. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
54. Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
55. An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
56. A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
57. The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
58. A blockhole.
59. The popping crease.
60. A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
61. The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
62. A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
63. The human head.
    slang
64. Solitary confinement.
    UK
65. A blockhead; a stupid person; a dolt.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“a block of ice; a block of stone”

“She picked up the block and examined it.”

“Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.”

“You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.”

“Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.”

“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.”

“She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'”

“"Aye," said the farmer putting another block on the fire as he spoke […]”

“Dawn and Shorty would cut this tree into blocks, while Randy and Matt went back for more. Dawn and Shorty made a good team on the crosscut, so when another log arrived, the first was almost completely made into shake wood.”

“a block of 100 tickets”

“But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.”

“Perhaps the simplest puffer known is the following period 20 puffer based on the period 20 spaceship, which creates blocks.”

“Blocks have a couple of unusual properties: they are cleanly destroyed by an incoming glider on any one of six adjacent paths, and none of the possible collisions include any output gliders, so you can't get chain reactions.”

“a block of text; a block of colour; a block of land”

“a block of data; a block of seven days; a block reservation”

“The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.”

“After one disk is mapped, the next block starts at address 0 on the next disk.”

“The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.”

“With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.”

“The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.”

“I’m going for a walk around the block.”

“The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.”

“The Witness: Well, I have one that is 8/10 of a mile away; I have one that is just about another 8/10 of a mile away; I have one that is three blocks away; I have one that is four blocks away; I have one that is eight blocks away, and I have one that is about 14 blocks away.”

“This uphill trail is like a battlefield. Anne offers to carry the older woman's backpack. […] I couldn't walk three blocks with the Danish woman's bulging backpack.”

“A county courthouse and a municipal building, located approximately a city block north of the district, were automatically excluded because they were separated from the main CBD by several blocks that did not reach either of the required index values.”

“a block of flats; a tower block; an office block; a toilet block; a shower block”

“He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.”

“There’s a block in the pipe that means the water can’t get through.”

“I work with writers/artists/others using artistic skills as a tool to explore blocks and free creative energy.”

“a mental block”

“writer’s block”

“The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an important block with Jermain Defoe poised to strike.”

“While it might seem like she should bend her elbows in order to spring up — the way you bend your knees in order to jump — a good block actually requires the gymnast to keep her arms straight and use her shoulder strength to launch into the air.”

“The Wiktionary page-blanking vandal was hit with an indefinite block.”

“He was blocked from playing Roblox due to cheating and scamming.”

“I’ve put a block on calls from that number.”

“I’ll knock your block off!”

“What a block art thou!”

“The major themes in Francesca Lia Block's books include the necessity of love and the acceptance of and celebration of racial and sexual difference.”

“Zachary Block chats with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen about their new show, Portlandia, which airs on IFC, Fridays at 10:30.”

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