block
61block*/*/ — [blɒk] noun [C] I 1) a large building with a lot of different levels an apartment/office block[/ex] The whole block of flats was destroyed.[/ex] 2) a solid piece of wood, stone, ice etc with straight sides a block of marble[/ex] 3) an amount of… …
62block up — verb render unsuitable for passage block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road • Syn: ↑barricade, ↑block, ↑blockade, ↑stop, ↑block off, ↑bar …
63block — 01. The road was [blocked] by a tree that had fallen over. 02. The little boy tried to escape, but the bully [blocked] his path. 03. She lives in an apartment [block] just down the street. 04. A new [block] of flats has been built on the… …
64block — 1. To obstruct; to arrest passage through. 2. A condition in which the passage of an electrical impulse is arrested, wholly or in part, temporarily or permanently. 3. SYN: atrioventricular b.. [Fr. bloquer] alveolocapillary b. the presence of… …
65block — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, Dutch auction, afterthought, agate, agnosia, apply to, aquatint, arm, arrest, auction, auction block, auction sale, autolithograph, ax, balk, ball, bar, barricade, barrier, baseball bat, bat, batch, battery,… …
66block — noun 1》 a large solid piece of hard material with flat surfaces on each side. ↘a starting block. ↘Printing a piece of wood or metal engraved for printing on paper or fabric. ↘a head shaped mould used for shaping hats or wigs. 2》 Brit …
67block — 1. noun 1) a block of cheese Syn: chunk, hunk, lump, wedge, cube, brick, slab, bar, piece 2) an apartment block Syn: building, complex, structure …
68block — {{11}}block (n.) solid piece, c.1300, from O.Fr. bloc log, block of wood (13c.), via M.Du. bloc trunk of a tree or O.H.G. bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo , from *bhelg a thick plank, beam (see BALK (Cf. balk)). Meaning mould …
69block — 1. n. the head. □ That block of yours is pretty dense. □ Try to get this stuff through your block before the test. 2. n. the auction block. □ The painting went on the block and sold for nearly fifty three million dollars …
70Block 10 — During the Holocaust, Block 10 was a cellblock at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where women and men were used as experimental subjects for German doctors. The experiments in Block 10 ranged from skin testing for reaction to relatively gentle… …
