block
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: blocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blocke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: blocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blocke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: a block of ice; a block of stone
She picked up the block and examined it.
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: a block of 100 tickets
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
gloss: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
pos: noun
examples: a block of text; a block of colour; a block of land
gloss: A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
pos: noun
gloss: A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.
gloss: A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
pos: noun
examples: I’m going for a walk around the block.
gloss: A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
examples: There’s a block in the pipe that means the water can’t get through.
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Something that prevents something from passing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The human head.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I’ll knock your block off!
gloss: Solitary confinement.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A blockhead; a stupid person; a dolt.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: What a block art thou!
gloss: To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The pipe was blocked by leaves.
You’re blocking the road – I can’t get through!
However, at Manchester the junctions and signals are so close that a train running more slowly over several junctions simply blocks those junctions for longer, preventing other trains moving.
gloss: To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A broken-down car is blocking the traffic.
gloss: To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
Mr. Ip, who was the chairman of the Yau Tsim Mong district council, became a target of protesters in July after he blocked debate on the extradition bill that incited the protests this summer.
gloss: To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He blocked the basketball player’s shot.
The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
gloss: To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
gloss: To hit with a block.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To play a block shot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I tried to send you a message, but you’ve blocked me!
The user who started the edit war was blocked for a day to cool off.
He messages her occasionally on Facebook, sending photos of grandkids and puppies he’s raised. Every year, he wishes her a happy birthday. She has not replied, but she has also not blocked him.
gloss: To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They’ve blocked all calls to international numbers.
Most Internet services have been blocked.
gloss: To wait for some condition to become true.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
gloss: To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
Then I finished knitting the socks and wove in all ends for each sock before soaking them in warm water and wool wash for 20 minutes and blocking them on sock blockers.
gloss: To shape or sketch out roughly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When drawing a scene, first block the main features, and then fill in the detail.
gloss: To experience mental block or creative block.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As I started to read the stories I thought, "I have to write my story," but I blocked on it for six months. I couldn't write anything else while I couldn't write my coming out story. It seemed to me a subterfuge to turn out an anthology of coming out stories which didn't have my story in it.
gloss: To knock the hat of (a person) down over their eyes.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
Related words: bloc
Derived words: cuboid
block capitals
block coefficient
building block
cinder block
clinker block
group of buildings
apartment block
around the block
blockbuster
block of flats
block party
office block
computing
block dump
boot block
bootblock
distance
city block
cutting base
chopping block
block vote
preventing passage
breeze block
breeze-block
mental block
writer’s block
the block
roadblock
stage blocking
stopblock
rigging
block and tackle
two-blocked
human head
knock someone's block off
hat block
wig block
volleyball
block assist
blocking error
solo block
miscellaneous
block-book
blockhead
block cellular automaton
block instrument
block post
block section
block system
block train
brake block
d-block
do one's block
f-block
foreblock
g-block
nonblock
p-block
pulley block
s-block
stumbling block
tokenless block
1-2-3 block
2-4-6 block
ablution block
alphabet block
amenity block
antiblock
art block
auction block
auto-block
autoblock
backblock
barber's block
barrister's block
basic block
Belgian block
Belgium block
Besser block
big block
blockable
blockade
blockboard
block book
block-booking
block booking
blockbusting
block capital
block captain
block chain
blockchain
block cipher
block coal
block code
block comment
block copolymer
block design
block device
block diagram
blockee
blocker
blockface
blockfield
block flute
blockfront
blockful
block grant
block graph
block group
Blockhead
block-head
block head
blockheaded
block heater
block holder
block hour
blockhouse
blockish
blocklayer
blocklaying
block length
block letter
block level element
blocklike
block-like
blocklist
block-long
blocklong
block macromolecule
blockmaker
blockmaking
blockmate
block model
blocko
block of chocolate
block-oriented terminal
block ornament
block polymer
block printer
block printing
blockquote
blockscape
block scope
block-scoped
blockship
block signal
blocksize
blockstone
block tackle
block teaching
blocktime
block time
blocktimer
blocktiming
block trade
block universe
block upconverter
block vomit
block wall
blockwide
blockwise
blockwork
blockworthy
blocky
braille block
breechblock
buddy block
bundle branch block
bur block
butcher block
butcher's block
cat-block
cautionary block
cell block
chip off the block
chip off the old block
chip off the same block
chip of the old block
chip of the same block
chock a block
chock-a-block
chockablock
chock-a-block full
chocolate block
Christmas block
chump-block
chump block
cinderblock
city block distance
clump block
cock block
cockblock
code block
commie block
cryoblock
cutting block
dead block
deblock
diblock
docblock
ecology block
electrical polyspermy block
engine block
extended basic block
extension block
falling block
fiddle block
fire block
flatblock
freezer block
gapers' block
gauge block
gawkers' block
geo-block
gin block
haploblock
hard-block
have been around the block
headblock
heart block
hemiblock
hollow block
horse-block
houseblock
iceblock
ink-block
interblock
intrablock
jack block
jawblock
jewel block
Jo block
Johannison block
Johansson block
Jordan block
joss-block
jossing-block
knife block
knock off someone's block
lifestyle block
logical block address
logical block addressing
long block
low block
low-noise block downconverter
machinist block
macroblock
megablock
metalloblock
microblock
midblock
monkey block
moon block
mounting block
multiblock
nanoblock
netblock
new kid on the block
nuclear block
off one's block
on the block
pentablock
permablock
pillar block
pillow block
plate block
plumber block
plummer block
pounding block
preblock
pseudoblock
punch block
punch-down block
Puretic power block
pushblock
put a block on
put on the block
quarter block
quartering block
rack block
rangeblock
Roblox
rolling block
running block
scope block
scriber block
scribing block
seroblock
setup block
shoe block
short block
shoulder block
sigblock
sister block
small block
snatch block
snot block
soft-block
spamblock
span block
starting block
stereoblock
stumblingblock
stumbling-block
subblock
sunblock
superblock
swage block
swinging-block
tackle block
tailblock
tail block
temple block
tenji block
textblock
thick-and-thin block
tint block
toilet block
top-block
tower block
toy block
transaction block
triblock
twin block appliance
two-block
two-block haircut
V block
viol block
volcanic block
water block
wood-block
woodblock
wood block
wrest block
wrest-block
Xblocks
Yule block
blockage
block in
blocking
blocking bet
blocking course
blocking patent
block off
block out
block the box
block up
nonblocking
reblock
sunblocking
unblock
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: طَابُوقَة
roman: ṭābūqa
lang: Belarusian
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Bulgarian
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Burmese
word: တုံး
roman: tum:
lang: Catalan
word: cub
lang: Catalan
word: bloc
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塊體 /块体
roman: kuàitǐ
lang: Czech
word: blok
lang: Dutch
word: blok
lang: Esperanto
word: bloko
lang: Finnish
word: kimpale
lang: Finnish
word: lohkare
lang: Finnish
word: järkäle
lang: Finnish
word: pölkky
lang: French
word: bloc
lang: Galician
word: bloque
lang: German
word: Block
lang: German
word: Klotz
lang: Hebrew
word: קֻבִּיָּה
roman: qubiyá
lang: Hungarian
word: tömb
lang: Hungarian
word: kocka
lang: Hungarian
word: építőkocka
lang: Icelandic
word: kubbur
lang: Indonesian
word: balok
lang: Italian
word: blocco
lang: Italian
word: cubo
lang: Japanese
word: 塊
roman: katamari
lang: Korean
word: 블록
roman: beullok
lang: Malay
word: bongkah
lang: Norwegian
word: kloss
lang: Persian
word: بلوک
roman: blok
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Klotz
lang: Polish
word: blok
lang: Portuguese
word: bloco
lang: Romanian
word: bloc
lang: Russian
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ceap
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sgonn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klada
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: blok
lang: Slovak
word: blok
lang: Spanish
word: bloque
lang: Spanish
word: bloqueta
lang: Swedish
word: block
lang: Swedish
word: kloss
lang: Tagalog
word: bloke
lang: Thai
word: บล็อก
roman: blɔ́k
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كوتوك
roman: kütük
lang: Ukrainian
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Vietnamese
word: bờ lốc
lang: Finnish
word: lohko
lang: French
word: bloc
lang: Italian
word: blocco
lang: Kazakh
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Portuguese
word: bloco
lang: Spanish
word: bloque
lang: Armenian
word: թաղամաս
roman: tʻaġamas
lang: Belarusian
word: кварта́л
roman: kvartál
lang: Bulgarian
word: квартал
roman: kvartal
lang: Bulgarian
word: каре
roman: kare
lang: Catalan
word: illa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 街區 /街区
roman: jiēqū
lang: Czech
word: blok
lang: Dutch
word: blok
lang: Finnish
word: kortteli
lang: French
word: pâté de maisons
lang: German
word: Häuserblock
lang: German
word: Block
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄμφοδον
roman: ámphodon
lang: Hindi
word: खंड
roman: khaṇḍ
lang: Hungarian
word: sarok
lang: Indonesian
word: blok
lang: Irish
word: bloc
lang: Italian
word: isolato
lang: Italian
word: blocco
lang: Japanese
word: 街区
roman: gaiku
lang: Khmer
word: ម្ដុំ
roman: mdom
lang: Khmer
word: ប្លុក
roman: blok
lang: Korean
word: 구역
roman: guyeok
lang: Korean
word: 가구
roman: gagu
lang: Central Kurdish
word: گەڕەک
roman: gerrek
lang: Kyrgyz
word: квартал m маале m айыл
roman: maale
lang: Māori
word: poraka
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kvartal
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kvartal
lang: Portuguese
word: quadra
lang: Portuguese
word: quarteirão
lang: Russian
word: кварта́л
roman: kvartál
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: četvrt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: blok
lang: Slovak
word: blok
lang: Spanish
word: manzana
lang: Spanish
word: cuadra
lang: Swedish
word: kvarter
lang: Thai
word: ช่วงตึก
lang: Turkish
word: ada
lang: Turkish
word: kadastro adası
lang: Ukrainian
word: кварта́л
roman: kvartál
lang: Welsh
word: bloc
lang: Bulgarian
word: пречка
roman: prečka
lang: Bulgarian
word: задръстване
roman: zadrǎstvane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 障礙物 /障碍物
roman: zhàngāiwù
lang: Dutch
word: verstopping
lang: Finnish
word: este
lang: Finnish
word: tukos
lang: Finnish
word: sulku
lang: Finnish
word: saarto
lang: French
word: blocage
lang: French
word: obstruction
lang: German
word: Verstopfung
lang: Hebrew
word: מחסום
roman: makhsóm
lang: Hindi
word: अवरोध
roman: avrodh
lang: Hungarian
word: akadály
lang: Hungarian
word: torlasz
lang: Hungarian
word: dugulás
lang: Hungarian
word: elzáródás
lang: Italian
word: ingorgo
lang: Italian
word: blocco
lang: Portuguese
word: bloqueio
lang: Russian
word: прегра́да
roman: pregráda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zapreka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zaprjeka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: blokada
lang: Slovak
word: prekážka
lang: Swedish
word: blockering
lang: Swedish
word: stopp
lang: Swedish
word: hinder
lang: Bulgarian
word: блокада
roman: blokada
lang: Catalan
word: bloqueig
lang: Finnish
word: blokkaus
lang: Finnish
word: estäminen
lang: Hindi
word: रोकना
roman: roknā
lang: Hungarian
word: leszerelés
lang: Italian
word: blocco
lang: Russian
word: блок
roman: blok
lang: Finnish
word: näpäys
lang: Bulgarian
word: препречвам
roman: preprečvam
lang: Catalan
word: bloquejar
lang: Catalan
word: blocar
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 阻住
roman: zo² zyu⁶
lang: Danish
word: spærre
lang: Danish
word: blokere
lang: Dutch
word: versperren
lang: Dutch
word: blokkeren
lang: Finnish
word: sulkea
lang: Finnish
word: tukkia
lang: French
word: bloquer
lang: Galician
word: bloquear
lang: Galician
word: impedir
lang: Galician
word: obstruír
lang: German
word: blockieren
lang: Greek
word: εμποδίζω
roman: empodízo
lang: Hawaiian
word: keʻa
lang: Hawaiian
word: hoʻokeʻa
lang: Hebrew
word: חסם
roman: khasám
lang: Hungarian
word: blokkol
lang: Indonesian
word: menghalangi
lang: Irish
word: coisc
lang: Italian
word: bloccare
lang: Italian
word: ostruire
lang: Japanese
word: 阻む
roman: habamu
lang: Japanese
word: 遮る
roman: saegiru
lang: Japanese
word: 塞ぐ
roman: fusagu
lang: Khmer
word: បាំង
roman: baŋ
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тос
roman: tos
lang: Latin
word: claudō
lang: Latin
word: obstō
lang: Latvian
word: bloķēt
lang: Manchu
word: ᡴᠠᠮᠪᡳ
roman: kambi
lang: Māori
word: ārai
lang: Māori
word: tāiha
lang: Norman
word: blotchi
lang: Polish
word: blokować
lang: Polish
word: zablokowywać
lang: Polish
word: zablokować
lang: Portuguese
word: bloquear
lang: Portuguese
word: impedir
lang: Portuguese
word: obstruir
lang: Romanian
word: bloca
lang: Russian
word: блоки́ровать
roman: blokírovatʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: blokirati
lang: Sikkimese
word: བཀག
roman: bkag
lang: Slovak
word: blokovať
lang: Slovak
word: zablokovať
lang: Slovak
word: upchať
lang: Slovak
word: zastaviť
lang: Spanish
word: bloquear
lang: Spanish
word: impedir
lang: Spanish
word: obstruir
lang: Spanish
word: atorar
lang: Swedish
word: blockera
lang: Tamil
word: தடு
roman: taṭu
lang: Turkish
word: engellemek
lang: Ukrainian
word: блокува́ти
roman: blokuváty
lang: Vietnamese
word: chặn
lang: Bulgarian
word: препятствам
roman: prepjatstvam
lang: Dutch
word: tegenhouden
lang: Dutch
word: verhinderen
lang: Finnish
word: estää
lang: Finnish
word: ehkäistä
lang: Finnish
word: salvata
lang: French
word: contrer
lang: German
word: abblocken
lang: Indonesian
word: mencegah
lang: Italian
word: impedire
lang: Japanese
word: 阻止する
roman: soshi suru
lang: Russian
word: препя́тствовать
roman: prepjátstvovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: воспрепя́тствовать
roman: vosprepjátstvovatʹ
lang: Slovak
word: zabrániť
lang: Swedish
word: förhindra
lang: Ukrainian
word: заблоко́вувати
roman: zablokóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: заблокува́ти
roman: zablokuváty
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bloklamaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: блокирам
roman: blokiram
lang: Hindi
word: प्रतिबंध करना
roman: pratibandh karnā
lang: Vietnamese
word: cấm