Word Finder - block

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A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

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a block of ice

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A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

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

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A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

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I'm going for a walk around the block.

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A residential building consisting of flats.

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a block of flats

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The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

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

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Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.

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The human head.

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I'll knock your block off!

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A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

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A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

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A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.

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a block of 100 tickets

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A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).

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A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

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A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.

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A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.

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A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.

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Something that prevents something from passing.

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There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.

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• barrier
• blockage
• obstruction

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An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).

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A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.

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A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.

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A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.

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A section of split logs used as fuel.

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Solitary confinement.

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A cellblock.

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The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

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A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.

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A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

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A section of a railroad where the block system is used.

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The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.

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A blockhole.

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The popping crease.

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A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.

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To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

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The pipe is blocked.

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To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

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You're blocking the road – I can't get through!

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To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).

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His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.

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To impede an opponent.

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He blocked the basketball player's shot.

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To specify the positions and movements of the actors.

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It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.

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To hit with a block.

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To play a block shot.

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To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.

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I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!

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To wait.

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When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.

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To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

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I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.

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To shape or sketch out roughly.

It fled like a wounded animal and it was impossible to block its path.

She leaned over and picked up a block of wood.

Yes. I'm sorry so many buildings are gone but that one block is enough.

I walked down the entire block but there weren't any people.

Whatever he was going through, he was doing his best to block her.

The figure's arm was raised to block the blinding light.

Her footsteps echoed off the block walls.

A notebook lay on the table next to a few scrolls, an ancient manuscript and another block of stone with carvings too faint for Gabe to read.

So you could block others?

Dean looked over his shoulder, expecting to see a local postmark but read, written in block letters, Rollins, Kansas.

Three figures emerged to block her path.

Tim was the quiet one and when Jim cried, everyone on the block knew he was unhappy.

Usually I enjoy seeing the gentle flakes and they cause me little aggravation with their accumulation as I seldom travel more than a block or two when I secure provisions.

All the while, I couldn't block the vision of the wife I so loved, being herded at knife point.

They all feigned shock and surprise at this not-uncommon happening as Paulette huffily announced she'd absent herself with a walk around the block while they "took care of the matter."

When set, the eldest demonstrated a simple strike and block, then corrected her form as she followed his example.

It was a beat-up Camaro parked half a block down.

Another image flashed, and Deidre gasped, covering her face with her hands in an effort to block it.

I grabbed a hot dog with sauerkraut at a stand nearby and watched the theater crowd exit the latest block buster show.

He'd tried to block all memories of a happier time for fear he'd never see such times again.

At her hesitation, he motioned for her to sit again and turned, continuing to block Kris from sight.

He raised a hand to block, but she kicked him in the groin, and then in the neck.

Katie whipped around the breakfast bar, eyes roving the kitchen for the knife block or something with which to defend herself.

All she wanted was the coziness of her studio, where she could block out everything and paint.

Dean gritted his teeth and dropped once more, just as a block of frozen mass as large as his head struck a glancing blow to his already aching shoulder.

Ed lifted his head and nickered, but he continued to work on the salt block when she didn't call him.

Rose Tisdale first sighted the blue car circling the block and called Flora Watkins.

By taking a block of marble and carving a statue, or taking a handful of seed and growing a cornfield, you have combined your labor and know-how with something of little value and have created something of more value.

So did her sister who was visiting, and the old guy who owns the gift store on the block with the Post Office.

She repeated the sentence over and over to try to block out what her senses told her about the size of the monster.

The cell block fell silent, and he sensed the others also smelled the human blood.

I couldn't block out of my mind, my wife's statement a few days ago; think of all the children who he could be saving.

I don't know what I mean except I can't stop dreaming of little children, all hurt and bleeding and I don't want to see them because it hurts too much, but I can't block them out!

The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

Jule's arm shot out to block the interloper's progress toward them.

He tried to block that day from his mind as he played out the coiled rope from over his shoulder and moved backwards down the slope.

Dean returned to Bird Song mid-morning, showered, and walked the three blocks to Diversions, a combination used book store, coffee shop, and local gathering place, on Sixth Street, a half block from Main.

Dean's suggestion about a public Internet connection a block away on Main Street was met with a dumb stare.

She closed her eyes, as if to block the tears.

And damn near impossible to see anything from down below, even if the overhang didn't block the view.

The sun wouldn't be up for another hour, but the block walls of the dairy loomed clearly in the white landscape.

It shot off the counter, hitting the block wall and bouncing off to roll across the floor and stop at Carmen's feet.

Rhyn ignored the demon and left the cell block, returning to the hallway before opening a portal.  He crossed through the shadow world to the beach of the Caribbean Sanctuary.  Toby was dragging Kiki up the beach by one leg.

Dean planned to send a patrol car by later to pick up some clothes but his trip home passed within a block of Parsons Street and on an impulse, he drove by the building.

Fred managed to get the license number by walking around the block and returning to the house from the rear.

No one on the block remembered the motor home, but the backyard was closed from view from the street, so unless someone was in the building it would not have been visible.

The vehicle careened down the block, narrowly missing a mail truck that honked its irri­tation, and sped around the corner before Dean had staggered to his feet.

The lodge was in the next block and once again mirrored the others he'd visited since this business began.

It also seemed perfectly reasonable to take the 1962 Nash Metropolitan for a spin around the block, even though it didn't have brakes either.

One morning she was greatly distressed by finding that one of the dogs had a block fastened to her collar.