Word Finder - blocks

definition

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

example

a block of ice

definition

A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

example

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

definition

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

example

I'm going for a walk around the block.

definition

A residential building consisting of flats.

example

a block of flats

definition

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

example

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

definition

Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.

definition

The human head.

example

I'll knock your block off!

definition

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

definition

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

definition

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

example

a block of 100 tickets

definition

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

definition

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

definition

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

definition

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.

definition

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

definition

Something that prevents something from passing.

example

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

synonyms

• barrier
• blockage
• obstruction

definition

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

definition

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

definition

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

definition

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

definition

A section of split logs used as fuel.

definition

Solitary confinement.

definition

A cellblock.

definition

The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

definition

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

definition

A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

definition

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

definition

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

definition

A blockhole.

definition

The popping crease.

definition

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

definition

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

example

The pipe is blocked.

definition

To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

example

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

definition

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

example

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

definition

To impede an opponent.

example

He blocked the basketball player's shot.

definition

To specify the positions and movements of the actors.

example

It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.

definition

To hit with a block.

definition

To play a block shot.

definition

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

example

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

definition

To wait.

example

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

definition

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

example

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

definition

To shape or sketch out roughly.

Somewhere a few blocks away, an ambulance wailed.

The only innocent soul in Hell, for Wynn's was as black as the stone blocks of Hell's fortress.

Two blocks away we found a dark spot that catered to happy hour regulars.

It was only a couple of blocks to Duckett's Market, but he needed the Jeep to haul the groceries.

A lot can happen in two blocks, you know.

Didn't the police set up road blocks?

Howie can't drive two blocks out here without getting lost.

They entered a large neighborhood and drove the same few blocks a few times before stopping in front of a large adobe hacienda walled off from its neighbors.

He quickly agreed and the two strolled, for the first time since Christmas, to St. Daniel's Catholic Church, a few blocks away.

After a late lunch on the run, Dean spent most of the after­noon interviewing a burglary victim only three blocks from his Collingswood Avenue home.

There were thugs in the streets, bars on the windows of sagging houses, and cars on blocks.

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.

Two blocks away, the patrol car struck a van backing out from its diagonal parking space in front of the toy store.

The chunky blocks of the stone walls were decorated with art done by children, and colorful mats covered the floor.

The Deans dallied over the dishes and then took a slow stroll around town, stopping at the Western Hotel a few blocks away.

While the distance to her aunt's trailer was only a half dozen blocks, once the January sun had retired after its day's work, it would be a cold walk.

Dean continued to hold Martha's hand as they walked uptown and found a place open on Seventh Avenue, a couple of blocks from Bird Song.

The Hotel Roseville is only a few blocks, why don't we go there and I'll show you just how much fun I can be.

The emerops facility was across a field and a road then down a few blocks in the ghost town that was the city of Randolph on the eastern shores of the Mississippi.

There was an upscale coffee shop a couple of blocks away and Fred suggested they stop for coffee.

The drive to Maid Marian Lane was becoming more familiar with each passing trip—no more need to count the blocks.

Dean suggested a pizza to give him time to get it out, and the two walked a few blocks to a favorite neighborhood spot—red­checkered tablecloth and scenes of Old Sorrento on the walls.

Undaunted, he walked the four blocks to the bar on Diamond.

He dug deeper into the pile of cement blocks and ashes before him.

The small town had only dirt roads, and his glanced lingered towards a farmers market under the awnings in the center, a couple of blocks away.

A propane tank perched on concrete blocks looked out of place in the antiquated setting.

Your cousins attend the Day School two blocks down.

In France mushroom-growers do not use the compact blocks or bricks of spawn so familiar in England, but much smaller flakes or "leaves" of dry dung in which the spawn or mycelium can be seen to exist.

The collapse both of this temple and of that of Heracles must be attributed to an earthquake; many fallen blocks of the former were removed in 1756 for the construction of the harbour of Porto Empedocle.

The town, which is the residence of a kaimakam, is built on two low limestone hills and its streets are paved with limestone blocks.

These blocks are distinguished, after the American fashion, by letters and numerals.

The building consists of four blocks.

On the other hand, inscriptions prove that the marble blocks intended for the pedimental statues of the Parthenon were not brought to Athens until 434 B.C., which was probably after the death of Pheidias.

It has been quarried since 1785; marble monuments were first manufactured about 1808; and at South Dorset in 1818 marble seems first to have been sawed in blocks, the earlier method having been chiselling.

They are built of "sun-dried blocks of mud and gravel, about 22 in.

These blocks were fastened to a diaphragm of wood.

Another method of distribution, largely adopted, is to run the lead cables into the interior of blocks of buildings, and to terminate them there in iron boxes from which the circuits are distributed to the surrounding buildings by means of rubber-covered wires run along the walls.

The subscriber pays a fixed annual rent which covers a certain number of free out - ward calls, say boo; additional calls he purchases in advance in blocks of several hundred at so much per hundred, the price being reduced as the number increases.

The watercress blocks the rivers of New Zealand into which it has been introduced from Europe.

This theory of crust blocks dropped by subsidence is opposed to Lapworth's theory of vast crust-folds, but geology is the science which has to decide between them.

Bubastis, capital of the 19th nome of Lower Egypt, is now represented by a great mound of ruins called Tell Basta, near Zagazig, including the site of a large temple (described by Herodotus) strewn with blocks of granite.

The public buildings and business blocks are built mostly of Indiana building stone.

Sleepers, called ties or cross-ties in America, are the blocks or slabs on which the rails are carried.

Stone blocks were tried as sleepers in the early days of railways, but they proved too rigid, and besides, it was found difficult to keep the line true with them.

Many of them are fault block mountains, the crust having been broken and the blocks tilted so that there is a steep face on one side and a gentle slope on the other.

In numerous instances clear evidence of recent movements along the fault planes has been discovered; and frequent earthquakes testify with equal force to the present uplift of the mountain blocks.

The valleys between the tilted mountain blocks are smooth and often trough-like, and are often the sites of shallow salt lakes or playas.

Examined more closely these are found to be vast accumulations of blocks of quartzite, irregular in form, but having a tendency to a rude diamond shape, from 2 to 20 ft.

The blocks are angular, and rest irregularly one upon another, supported in all positions by the angles and edges of those beneath.

This soil is spongy, and, undergoing alternate contraction and expansion from being alternately comparatively dry and saturated with moisture, allows the heavy blocks to slip down by their own weight into the valley, where they become piled up, the valley stream afterwards removing the soil from among and over them.