English Dictionary

block

/blɒk/

noun

A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading. / A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn. / A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

I placed a block on top of the tower.

意味（1）

A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.

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A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.

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A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.

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(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.

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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 tackle.

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A section of split logs used as fuel.

She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'

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A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.

a block of 100 tickets

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(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

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(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.

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(viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.

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(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).

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(programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

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(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.

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(chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.

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(rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.

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(computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).

The Specials block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.

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A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

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The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.

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A roughly cuboid building.

意味（20）

A cellblock.

意味（21）

Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.

a mental block

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(sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).

The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an important block with Jermain Defoe poised to strike.

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A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.

The Wiktionary page-blanking vandal was hit with an indefinite block.

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(slang) The human head.

I'll knock your block off!

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(UK) Solitary confinement.

意味（26）

(obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

What a block art thou!