ALL meanings of block
block
B b - countable noun block A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them. 3
- countable noun block A block in a town is an area of land with streets on all its sides. 3
- countable noun block A block of a substance is a large rectangular piece of it. 3
- verb block To block a road, channel, or pipe means to put an object across it or in it so that nothing can pass through it or along it. 3
- verb block If something blocks your view, it prevents you from seeing something because it is between you and that thing. 3
- verb block If you block someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place by standing in front of them. 3
- verb block If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done. 3
- verb block In some sports, if a player blocks a shot or kick, they stop the ball reaching its target. If one player blocks another, the first stops the second from reaching or moving with the ball. 3
- countable noun block A block of something such as tickets or shares is a large quantity of them, especially when they are all sold at the same time and are in a particular sequence or order. 3
- countable noun block If you have a mental block or a block, you are temporarily unable to do something that you can normally do which involves using, thinking about, or remembering something. 3
- noun block a large solid piece of wood, stone, or other material with flat rectangular sides, as for use in building 3
- noun block any large solid piece of wood, stone, etc, usually having at least one face fairly flat 3
- noun block such a piece on which particular tasks may be done, as chopping, cutting, or beheading 3
- noun block one of a set of wooden or plastic cubes as a child's toy 3
- noun block a form on which things are shaped or displayed 3
- noun block a person's head (esp in the phrase knock someone's block off) 3
- noun block a dull, unemotional, or hardhearted person 3
- noun block a large building of offices, flats, etc 3
- noun block a group of buildings in a city bounded by intersecting streets on each side 3
- noun block the area or distance between such intersecting streets 3
- noun block an area of land for a house, farm, etc 3
- noun block a log, usually a willow, fastened to a timber base and used in a wood-chopping competition 3
- noun block an area of land, esp one to be divided for building or settling 3
- noun block a piece of wood, metal, or other material having an engraved, cast, or carved design in relief, used either for printing or for stamping book covers, etc 3
- noun block a letterpress printing plate, esp one mounted type-high on wood or metal 3
- noun block a casing housing one or more freely rotating pulleys 3
- noun block the act of obstructing or condition of being obstructed, as in sports 3
- noun block an obstruction or hindrance 3
- noun block interference in the normal physiological functioning of an organ or part 3
- noun block a short interruption of perceptual or thought processes 3
- noun block obstruction of an opponent in a sport 3
- noun block a section or quantity, as of tickets or shares, handled or considered as a single unit 3
- noun block (as modifier) 3
- noun block a stretch of railway in which only one train may travel at a time 3
- noun block an unseparated group of four or more postage stamps 3
- noun block a pad of paper 3
- noun block a group of words treated as a unit of data on a tape, disk, etc 3
- noun block a mark made near the popping crease by a batsman to indicate his position in relation to the wicket 3
- verb block to shape or form (something) into a block 3
- verb block to fit with or mount on a block 3
- verb block to shape by use of a block 3
- verb block to obstruct (a passage, channel, etc) or prevent or impede the motion or flow of (something or someone) by introducing an obstacle 3
- verb block to impede, retard, or prevent (an action, procedure, etc) 3
- verb block to stamp (a title, design, etc) on (a book cover, etc) by means of a block (see sense 12), esp using gold leaf or other foil 3
- verb block (esp of a government or central bank) to limit the use or conversion of assets or currency 3
- verb block to obstruct or impede movement by (an opponent) 3
- verb block to suffer a psychological block 3
- verb block to interrupt a physiological function, as by use of an anaesthetic 3
- verb block to play (a ball) defensively 3
- noun block island in S R.I., at the entrance to Long Island Sound 3