Word: block Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk. Pronunciation: /blɒk/, /blɑk/ 1. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: a block of ice; a block of stone Example: She picked up the block and examined it. 2. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution. Example: 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. 3. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: 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. 4. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. 5. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Labels: dated 6. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. 7. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: 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.' Example: "Aye," said the farmer putting another block on the fire as he spoke […] 8. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: a block of 100 tickets 9. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. 10. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. Example: 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. Example: Perhaps the simplest puffer known is the following period 20 puffer based on the period 20 spaceship, which creates blocks. 11. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular. Example: a block of text; a block of colour; a block of land 12. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular. 13. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular. 14. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. Example: a block of data; a block of seven days; a block reservation Example: 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. 15. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. Example: After one disk is mapped, the next block starts at address 0 on the next disk. Example: 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. 16. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. Example: With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable. 17. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. 18. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. 19. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. 20. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. Example: The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF. 21. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. 22. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets. Example: I’m going for a walk around the block. 23. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets. Example: The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north. Example: 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. 24. A cuboid or approximately cuboid building. Example: a block of flats; a tower block; an office block; a toilet block; a shower block Example: 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. 25. A cuboid or approximately cuboid building. 26. Something that prevents something from passing. Example: There’s a block in the pipe that means the water can’t get through. 27. Something that prevents something from passing. Example: I work with writers/artists/others using artistic skills as a tool to explore blocks and free creative energy. Example: a mental block 28. Something that prevents something from passing. 29. Something that prevents something from passing. Example: 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. 30. Something that prevents something from passing. 31. Something that prevents something from passing. 32. Something that prevents something from passing. 33. Something that prevents something from passing. 34. Something that prevents something from passing. 35. Something that prevents something from passing. Example: 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. 36. Something that prevents something from passing. Example: The Wiktionary page-blanking vandal was hit with an indefinite block. Example: I’ve put a block on calls from that number. 37. The human head. Labels: slang Example: I’ll knock your block off! 38. Solitary confinement. Labels: UK 39. A blockhead; a stupid person; a dolt. Labels: obsolete Example: What a block art thou!