Synonym: clog, hinder, lump, mass, obstruct, solid. Similar words: local, locate, location, blond, blow off, blow up, bloody, blow out. Meaning: [blɒk] 
n. 1. a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) 2. a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings 3. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides 4. a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit 5. housing in a large building that is divided into separate units 6. (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted 7. an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension 8. a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope 9. a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine 10. an obstruction in a pipe or tube 11. a platform from which an auctioneer sells 12. the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements. v. 1. render unsuitable for passage 2. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of 3. stop from happening or developing 4. interfere with or prevent the reception of signals 5. run on a block system 6. interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia 7. shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight 8. stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block 9. obstruct 10. block passage through 11. support, secure, or raise with a block 12. impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) 13. be unable to remember 14. shape by using a block 15. shape into a block or blocks 16. prohibit the conversion or use of (assets).
n. 1. a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) 2. a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings 3. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides 4. a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit 5. housing in a large building that is divided into separate units 6. (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted 7. an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension 8. a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope 9. a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine 10. an obstruction in a pipe or tube 11. a platform from which an auctioneer sells 12. the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements. v. 1. render unsuitable for passage 2. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of 3. stop from happening or developing 4. interfere with or prevent the reception of signals 5. run on a block system 6. interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia 7. shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight 8. stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block 9. obstruct 10. block passage through 11. support, secure, or raise with a block 12. impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) 13. be unable to remember 14. shape by using a block 15. shape into a block or blocks 16. prohibit the conversion or use of (assets). 
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181 INA103 block diagram Fig. 1. Application of the UMF1009T.
182 They then barred him from watching Prisoner Cell Block H, before extending it to a total television ban.
183 Fig. 5.7 Index sequential files - overflow block Random access offers another way of organising data on disk for quick access.
184 The fireball destroyed a prefabricated office building before setting a four-storey office block ablaze.
185 I've been around the block a few times, and I think I know when someone's trying to cheat me.
186 A composite motion demanding the straight forward abolition of the block vote was defeated on a show of hands.
187 This is what it says, high above a doorway, in big block letters, at Pasadena's Clearwater Seafood.
188 The following year his museum and all his other buildings went on the auction block to satisfy his debtors.
189 Do you feel that the language problem is a fundamental stumbling block for art historians?
190 What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Joseph Addison 
191 Each failed when a dispute arose and some group walked out of the union to set up shop down the block.
192 Different to Lefortovo, back in the dark ages from the second floor of the hospital block at Vladimir.
193 Shannon lay back against the pillows, squeezing her eyes tight shut, as though that could block out the awful truth.
194 From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.
195 The cult has been barricaded in a block of buildings since a shootout with federal agents on 28 February.
196 A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway.
197 But with a deli on every other block purveying all sorts of ethnic breads, l never baked a single loaf.
198 If it happens too quickly, the gas forms bubbles in the blood that can block small arteries and cause the bends.
199 Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic.
200 To do so would constitute a stumbling block to the reconversion of Protestants who favored the new astronomy.
201 Consequently, the talk at the sand table or the block area is more apt to be teacher-directed.
202 The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
203 Her apartment house was an imposing Napoleonic block which presented solid,(http://sentencedict.com/block.html) unwelcoming doors to the street.
204 Since the recent purchase of a block of furnished flatlets in Bridlington, Yorkshire, self-catering holidays have become an attractive alternative.
205 You can do this by hand with abrasive paper and a sanding block.
206 Nothing looked familiar, and yet he'd gone around the block again and again in anticipation of something like this.
207 Low-density lipoprotein is central to the problem of fat layers which eventually block the arteries.
208 Such geographic constraints were initially absent from the block grant program.
209 As she did, she saw the young slave girl on the auction block.
210 Nations around the world are changing animal husbandry practices to block the potential spread of deadly animal disease to the dinner table.