Word Finder - blocking

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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.

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The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.

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blocking of major opposition sites

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The precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera (originally planned using miniature blocks).

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Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

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A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.

I got a nice strong feeling they're blocking me out of the picture.

To return to the blocking ships.

Two forms stepped between them and the portal, blocking it.

Sounds of pursuit came from a few floors down, blocking her escape.

A large form stepped in front of them suddenly, blocking her.

The warriors with her closed around her, blocking some of the crowd from sight.

A breakwater and sea-wall prevent the blocking of the harbour entrance and encroachments of the sea; and there is another breakwater at Landguard Point on the opposite (Suffolk) shore of the estuary.

The curtain blocking him from his memories was less defined, like ice beginning to thaw.

A light wind whispered across the grass and a cloud drifted over, blocking the sun from her face.

Where the rail-gauge is narrow and great weight is not desired, blocking girders are provided across the under side of the truck; these are arranged so that, by means of wedges or screws, they can be made to increase the base.

I wonder if there is debris blocking it in the back pasture.

Jenn rolled away, blocking the standing guardsman's shot of her.

When the growth is at the cardiac end of the stomach, blocking the gullet and causing slow starvation, the abdomen may advisedly be opened, and, the stomach having been fixed to the surface-wound, a permanent opening may be arranged for the introduction of an adequate amount of food.

The terminal branches of the arteries supplying these organs are usually described as not anastomosing but many, if not all, of Cohnheim's end-arteries have minute collateral channels; which, however, are usually insufficient to completely compensate for the blocking that may occur in these arteries, therefore, when one of them is obstructed, the area irrigated by it dies from malnutrition.

Death is due either to weakness and emaciation (in chronic cases), or to blocking of the cerebral capillaries by the parasites (where these are abundant), or to disorganization of the nervous system (paraplegic and sleepingsickness cases).

The earth-stopper "stops out" and "puts to" - the first expression signifying blocking, during the night, earths and drains to which foxes resort, the second performing the same duties in the morning so as to prevent the fox from getting to ground when he has been found.

She clung to the metal railing as if her life depended on it, stumbling toward him, blocking his progress.

It rippled with lightening and spread fast, soon blocking the moon before it rolled outward in every direction.

The plaits are sewed partly by hand and in a special sewing-machine, and the hats or bonnets are finished by stiffening with gelatin size and blocking into shape with the aid of heat and powerful pressure, according to the dictates of fashion.

Inasmuch as the stone is blocking the duct, the bile is unable to flow into the intestine; so, being absorbed by the blood-vessels, it gives rise to jaundice.

Nor is the effect of these chromates confined to the blocking out simply of one end of the spectrum, as in the visible part, but two distinct absorption bands are seen, which seem unchanged in position if one of the above-mentioned chromates is replaced by another.

The" Vindictive,"supported by two auxiliary vessels" Iris II."and" Daffodil,"was to assault the mole on its outer and western side and by creating an impression that this was the main operation, divert the enemy's fire from the blocking ships.

The blocking ships were stripped of all fittings and filled with rubble and concrete.

The greatest losses were in the Channel where the Flanders flotilla worked, and the blow they would have received by the blocking of Zeebrugge and Ostend was well worth the risk.

The blocking of Zeebrugge and Ostend offered a good prospect of success and was within a reasonable distance of it.

This canal was badly constructed, and by entirely blocking the drainage of the valley did a great deal of harm to the lands.

This action, finally blocking the Boer road to the sea, taken by a Liberal government, was clear indication that Great Britain was determined to maintain her supremacy in South Africa.

The coastal plain is filled with lakes (lagoas), in some cases formed by the blocking up of river outlets by beach sands..

But the convoyman took no notice of the word "general" and shouted at the soldiers who were blocking his way.

Without greeting the officers, he scratched himself and asked to be allowed to pass as they were blocking the way.

Soldiers were passing in a constant stream along the street blocking it completely, so that Alpatych could not pass out and had to wait.

The whole army--French, Italian, German, Polish, and Dutch--hungry, ragged, and weary of the campaign, felt at the sight of an army blocking their road to Moscow that the wine was drawn and must be drunk.

At the beginning of the battle they stood blocking the way to Moscow and they still did so at the end of the battle as at the beginning.

At daybreak, however, those nearing the town at the Dorogomilov bridge saw ahead of them masses of soldiers crowding and hurrying across the bridge, ascending on the opposite side and blocking the streets and alleys, while endless masses of troops were bearing down on them from behind, and an unreasoning hurry and alarm overcame them.

Finally, he broke through the thatch of branches and leaves blocking most of the sun.  The day was darkening.  In the distance, he saw the massive fortress that was Death's, and he saw the Lake of Souls he'd seen in angel memories.  He saw birds but couldn't see through the jungle to where Katie might be.  The branch holding him swayed in a heavy wind that smelled of rain.

Wollaston, by blocking off one of the streams with a screen, sufficient lateral separation being obtained by combining two equal crystalline prisms cut differently with respect to the optic axis - an arrangement that achromatizes more or less completely the pencil that is allowed to pass.

The moons appeared through the branches in the jungle, almost alone in the dark sky except for a wisp of clouds floating beneath them.  She watched the clouds pass.  More came, quickly blocking the moons and stealing most of the light from the jungle.  Katie sat up and blinked until her eyes adjusted to the new level of darkness.  The sky took on an eerie silver glow, like it did in Maryland the night before a hard snow.

Unlike other amphetamines, MDMA is also capable of blocking SERT.

A flashing light warns about this, but surely the traditional blocking mechanism could have been implemented to prevent the annoyance?

Blocking and lighting design combined to create haunting tableaux that made a virtue of the Playroom's potentially awkward rhomboid space.

Passing through one village we even had a brass band blocking our route.

At nightfall, a network of street barricades is constructed, blocking most of the city's arteries.

He entered without first turning off the key, disconnecting the battery, or blocking off the mast.

Dopamine blocking drugs are frequently the first choice of treatment, Eg haloperidol chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, sulphiride and pimozide.

With no cure islands blocking traffic commissioner with the it pays to.

It reduces tissue loss by blocking release of a protein called cytochrome c 11.

These special neurons make a pain blocking agent called enkephalin.

Data subject may apply to court for an order for rectification, blocking, erasure or destruction.

The way that the plant stanol ester in Benecol works is by blocking the absorption of cholesterol from the gut.

Question 17 A. false B. false C. true D. true E. true There are 3 common approaches to blocking the brachial plexus.