ALL meanings of blocks
block
B b - noun blocks a short length of plank serving as a bridging, as between joists. 1
- noun blocks a stump or wooden structure on which a condemned person is beheaded: Mary Stuart went bravely to the block. 1
- noun blocks auction block. 1
- noun blocks Machinery. a part enclosing one or more freely rotating, grooved pulleys, about which ropes or chains pass to form a hoisting or hauling tackle. 1
- noun blocks an obstacle, obstruction, or hindrance: His stubbornness is a block to all my efforts. 1
- noun blocks the state or condition of being obstructed; blockage: The traffic block lasted several hours. 1
- noun blocks Pathology. an obstruction, as of a nerve. heart block. 1
- noun blocks Sports. a hindering of an opponent's actions. 1
- noun blocks a quantity, portion, or section taken as a unit or dealt with at one time: a large block of theater tickets. 1
- noun blocks a small section of a city, town, etc., enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets: She lives on my block. 1
- noun blocks the length of one side of such a section: We walked two blocks over. 1
- noun blocks Chiefly British. a large building divided into separate apartments, offices, shops, etc. 1
- noun blocks a large number of bonds or shares of stock sold together as a single unit. 1
- noun blocks Computers. a group of data stored as a unit on an external storage medium and handled as a unit by the computer for input or output: This file has 20 records per block. a section of storage locations in a computer allocated to a particular set of instructions or data. a group of consecutive machine words organized as a unit and guiding a particular computer operation, especially with reference to input and output. (on a flow chart) a symbol representing an operation, device, or instruction in a computer program. 1
- noun blocks Railroads. any of the short lengths into which a track is divided for signaling purposes. 1
- noun blocks Philately. a group of four or more unseparated stamps, not in a strip. 1
- noun blocks Slang. a person's head. 1
- noun blocks Glassmaking. a wooden or metal cup for blocking a gather. 1
- noun blocks an obstruction or stoppage in mental processes or speech, especially when related to stress, emotional conflict, etc. 1
- noun blocks writer's block. 1
- noun blocks Geology. any large, angular mass of solid rock. fault block. 1
- noun blocks (in Canada) a wild or remote area of land that has not yet been surveyed: the Peace River block. 1
- noun blocks Automotive. cylinder block. 1
- noun blocks Falconry. a low perch to which a falcon is tethered outdoors. 1
- verb with object blocks to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage. 1
- verb with object blocks to fit with blocks; mount on a block. 1
- verb with object blocks to shape or prepare on or with a block: to block a hat; to block a sweater. 1
- verb with object blocks to join (the ends of boards or the like) by fastening to a block of wood. 1
- verb with object blocks Theater. Also, block out. to plan or work out the movement of performers in a play, pageant, etc.: Tomorrow we'll block act one. to draw a floor plan on (a stage) in order to indicate placement of scenery, stage property, etc. 1
- verb with object blocks Pathology, Physiology. to stop the passage of impulses in (a nerve). 1
- verb with object blocks Computers. to group (contiguous data) together so as to allow to be read or written in a single operation. 1
- verb with object blocks Sports. to hinder or bar the actions or movements of (an opposing player), especially legitimately. 1
- verb with object blocks Glassmaking. to shape (a molten gather) in a wet cup of wood or metal. to plunge a block of wood into (molten glass) to aid in refining the glass. 1
- verb with object blocks Metalworking. to give (a forging) a rough form before finishing. 1
- verb with object blocks Electronics. to apply a high negative bias to the grid of (a vacuum tube), for reducing the plate current to zero. 1
- verb without object blocks to act so as to obstruct an opponent, as in football, hockey, and basketball: He doesn't get many baskets, but he sure can block. 1
- verb without object blocks Theater. to block a play, act, scene, stage, etc.: The director will block tomorrow. 1
- verb without object blocks to suffer a block. 1
- idioms blocks put / go on the block, to offer or be offered for sale at auction: to put family heirlooms on the block. 1
- noun blocks a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces. 1
- noun blocks a hollow masonry building unit of cement, terra cotta, etc.: a wall made of concrete blocks. 1
- noun blocks one of a set of cube-shaped pieces of wood, plastic, or the like, used as a child's toy in building. 1
- noun blocks a mold or piece on which something is shaped or kept in shape: a hat block. 1
- noun blocks a piece of wood used in the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings. 1
- noun blocks Printing. the base on which a plate is mounted to make it type-high. 1
- noun blocks a projection left on a squared stone to provide a means of lifting it. 1
- noun blocks plural of block. 0
- verb blocks third-person singular simple present indicative form of block. 0