Block Definition–noun | 1. | a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces. | | 2. | a hollow masonry building unit of cement, terra cotta, etc.: a wall made of concrete blocks. | | 3. | one of a set of cube-shaped pieces of wood, plastic, or the like, used as a child's toy in building. | | 4. | a mold or piece on which something is shaped or kept in shape: a hat block. | | 5. | a piece of wood used in the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings. | | 6. | Printing. the base on which a plate is mounted to make it type-high. | | 7. | a projection left on a squared stone to provide a means of lifting it. | | 8. | a short length of plank serving as a bridging, as between joists. | | 9. | a stump or wooden structure on which a condemned person is beheaded: Mary Stuart went bravely to the block. | | 11. | Machinery. a part enclosing one or more freely rotating, grooved pulleys, about which ropes or chains pass to form a hoisting or hauling tackle. | | 12. | an obstacle, obstruction, or hindrance: His stubbornness is a block to all my efforts. | | 13. | the state or condition of being obstructed; blockage: The traffic block lasted several hours. | | 14. | Pathology. | a. | an obstruction, as of a nerve. | | | 15. | Sports. a hindering of an opponent's actions. | | 16. | a quantity, portion, or section taken as a unit or dealt with at one time: a large block of theater tickets. | | 17. | a small section of a city, town, etc.
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, enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets: She lives on my block. | | 18. | the length of one side of such a section: We walked two blocks over. | | 19. | Chiefly British. a large building divided into separate apartments, offices, shops, etc. | | 20. | a large number of bonds or shares of stock sold together as a single unit. | | 21. | Computers. | a. | a group of data stored as a unit on an external storage medium and handled as a unit by the computer for input or output: This file has 20 records per block. | | b. | a section of storage locations in a computer allocated to a particular set of instructions or data. | | c. | a group of consecutive machine words organized as a unit and guiding a particular computer operation, esp. with reference to input and output. | | d. | (on a flow chart) a symbol representing an operation, device, or instruction in a computer program. | | | 22. | Railroads. any of the short lengths into which a track is divided for signaling purposes. | | 23. | Philately. a group of four or more unseparated stamps, not in a strip. | | 24. | Slang. a person's head. | | 25. | Glassmaking. a wooden or metal cup for blocking a gather. | | 26. | an obstruction or stoppage in mental processes or speech, esp. when related to stress, emotional conflict, etc. | | 28. | Geology. | a. | any large, angular mass of solid rock. | | | 29. | (in Canada) a wild or remote area of land that has not yet been surveyed: the Peace River block. | | 31. | Falconry. a low perch to which a falcon is tethered outdoors. | –verb (used with object) | 32. | to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes fol. by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage. | | 33. | to fit with blocks; mount on a block. | | 34. | to shape or prepare on or with a block: to block a hat; to block a sweater. | | 35. | to join (the ends of boards or the like) by fastening to a block of wood. | | 36. | Theater. | a. | Also, block out. to plan or work out the movement of performers in a play, pageant, etc.: Tomorrow we'll block act one. | | b. | to draw a floor plan on (a stage) in order to indicate placement of scenery, stage property, etc. | | | 37. | Pathology, Physiology. to stop the passage of impulses in (a nerve). | | 38. | Computers. to group (contiguous data) together so as to allow to be read or written in a single operation. | | 39. | Sports. to hinder or bar the actions or movements of (an opposing player), esp. legitimately. | | 40. | Glassmaking. | a. | to shape (a molten gather) in a wet cup of wood or metal. | | b. | to plunge a block of wood into (molten glass) to aid in refining the glass. | | | 41. | Metalworking. to give (a forging) a rough form before finishing. | | 42. | Electronics. to apply a high negative bias to the grid of (a vacuum tube), for reducing the plate current to zero. | –verb (used without object) | 43. | to act so as to obstruct an opponent, as in football, hockey, and basketball: He doesn't get many baskets, but he sure can block. | | 44. | Theater. to block a play, act, scene, stage, etc.: The director will block tomorrow. | —Verb phrases | 46. | block in or out, to sketch or outline roughly or generally, without details: She blocked out a color scheme for the interiors. | | 47. | block out, | b. | Basketball. to box out. | | —Idiom | 48. | put or go on the block, to offer or be offered for sale at auction: to put family heirlooms on the block. | |
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Pop Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped. | | 2. | to burst open with such a sound, as chestnuts or corn in roasting. | | 3. | to come or go quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: She popped into the kitchen to check the stove. | | 4. | to shoot with a firearm: to pop at a mark. | | 5. | to protrude from the sockets: The news made her eyes pop. | | 6. | Baseball. | a. | to hit a pop fly (often fol. by up). | | –verb (used with object) | 7. | to cause to make a sudden, explosive sound. | | 8. | to cause to burst open with such a sound. | | 9. | to open suddenly or violently: to pop the hood on a car; to pop the tab on a beer can. | | 10. | to put or thrust quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: He popped the muffins into the oven. | | 11. | Informal. to cause to fire; discharge: He popped his rifle at the bird. | | 12. | to shoot (usually fol. by at, off, etc.): He popped off bottles with a slingshot. | | 13. | British Slang. to pawn. | | 14. | Informal. | a. | to take or s
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wallow (pills), esp. in excess or habitually; take orally in a compulsive or addictive way: Popping all those pills will land him in the hospital. | | b. | to eat in a continual or thoughtless manner, as snack foods: popping peanuts at the movies. | | –noun | 15. | a short, quick, explosive sound. | | 17. | a shot with a firearm. | | 19. | a drink or portion of an alcoholic beverage, as a drink of whiskey or a glass of beer: We had a couple of pops on the way home. | –adverb | 21. | with an explosive sound: The balloon went pop. | | 22. | quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: Pop, the door flew open! | –adjective | 23. | Informal. unexpected; without prior warning or announcement: The teacher gave us a pop quiz. | —Verb phrases | 24. | pop for, Slang. to pay or buy for oneself or another, esp. as a gift or treat; spring for: I'll pop for the first round of drinks. | | 25. | pop off, Informal. | a. | to die, esp. suddenly. | | b. | to depart, esp. abruptly. | | c. | to express oneself volubly or excitedly and sometimes irately or indiscreetly: He popped off about the injustice of the verdict. | | | 26. | pop out, Baseball. to be put out by hitting a pop fly caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team. | | 27. | pop up, Baseball. to hit a pop fly. | —Idioms | 28. | a pop, Slang. each; apiece: five orchids at $30 a pop. | | 29. | pop in, Informal. to visit briefly and unexpectedly; stop in; drop by: Maybe we'll pop in after the movie. | | 30. | pop the question, Informal. to propose marriage: They dated for two years before he popped the question. | |
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