blocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
biology
business
card-games
computing
cricket
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poker
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English blocker, blokker, bloker, blokkere, equivalent to block + -er.
Base: block
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: blockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
examples: Likewise, any connections shared between your child (the blocker) and the user being blocked will also be broken.
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
examples: an ad blocker
a content blocker
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes your sales progress skids to a halt. We've all met more blockers than we'd care to. Some are assigned by the company to filter services […]
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
examples: Blockers can optimize the development of preferred physical characteristics. In trans girls, blockers initiated prior to the development of male secondary sex characteristics will effectively prevent voice deepening, skeletal enlargement, and penile enlargement.
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who roughly shapes a diamond.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) or more generally makes knitted items, hats, books (or book covers), shoes, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Because in 1937 Benjamin is still an apprentice, he remains bound to the Eastern Finland Hat Factory. […] Benjamin now does much of the same work as the master cutters and blockers and enjoys their grudging approval of his skills.
gloss: A resident or member of a particular block.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: For some inexplicable reason, remote controls are allowed only on D block (the drug-free block). Result? D blockers trade their remotes for drugs. Prison logic.
Related words: blockade
blockage
Derived words: adblocker
alpha-blocker
angiotensin receptor blocker
antiblocker
bed blocker
beta blocker
calcium channel blocker
chump blocker
cockblocker
data blocker
ganglioblocker
gawker blocker
nonblocker
photoblocker
popup blocker
puberty blocker
sunblocker
USB blocker
USB data blocker
write blocker
β-blocker
Translations:
lang: Galician
word: bloqueador
lang: Galician
word: bloqueadora
lang: Polish
word: bloker
lang: Portuguese
word: bloqueador
lang: Portuguese
word: bloqueadora
lang: Spanish
word: bloqueador
lang: Spanish
word: bloqueadora