block
/blɒk/
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance; Something that prevents something from passing; A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular; A logical extent or region
- plural
- blocks
Meanings
- 1
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance
I only live a few blocks away.
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Tom lives only a few blocks away.
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- 2
Something that prevents something from passing
- 3
A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular
- 4
A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit
- 5
A cuboid or approximately cuboid building
- 6
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.; A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheadingrare
- 7
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.; A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are wornrare
- 8
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.; A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shapedrare
- 9
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.; A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mountedrare
- 10
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.; A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tacklerare