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).
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211 The joint venture is also planning a hotel and an office building next to the main apartment block.
212 Weck Glass Block has introduced some new product lines to that old favorite of architects everywhere.
213 Longer class periods and block schedules provide the flexibility needed to adjust teaching styles and organize field trips.
214 Poor bantam building block, what had you ever done since the beginning of time and space to deserve such shabby treatment?
215 This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
216 The people at the top have the power to advance or block careers.
217 The city is behind the project, granting permission to block off Congress between Herbert and Fifth avenues.
218 Surely he will find himself once more on the dreaded auction block.
219 Aid flights have been suspended for a week after fighting near the city's airport yesterday continued to block flights.
220 Damian got out, his arm around Domino, and they ran into an apartment block.
221 Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block.
222 But, once they had seen the flat in the exclusive block where Rosemary lived, no other accommodation bore comparison.
223 The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing.
224 The t treatments are applied within each block by random allocation to the experimental units.
225 It will have the authority, for example, to block sackings and changes in the pattern of production.
226 Now she is walking toward him, half a block away, pushing a baby carriage.
227 The state banned all fishing in a 105-square-mile area in the Block Island Sound on Sunday.
228 So I married Jake and moved into an apartment a block away from my parents.
229 The rest of the team will be assembled in their right order in the block corridor.
230 Hilton made it clear that those assets would likely be put on the auction block.
231 These assessments form a crucial input to the determination of the actual funding allocation to each Local Authority through Block Grant.
232 Just four Republicans cast ballots for some one other than Gingrich, six short of the number needed to block his selection.
233 The sun floods in, young plants shoot upwards and the struggle starts anew as the winners block light from their inferiors.
233 Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
234 It will ask my modem to resend the entire block.
235 The engine block and alloy cylinder head is shared with the 1.4-litre Energy engine so the bore is identical.
236 The mind can think only one thought at a time. If your mind is occupied by a meaningless thought, you block a meaningful thought from entering it. RVM
237 Some programs also offer users a limited ability to decide for themselves which sites to block.