Butcher Definition–noun | 1. | a retail or wholesale dealer in meat. | | 2. | a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market. | | 3. | a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder. | | 4. | a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc. | –verb (used with object) | 5. | to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market. | | 6. | to kill indiscriminately or brutally. | | 7. | to bungle; botch: to butcher a job. | |
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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
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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 quan
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tity, 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., 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. | <
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td>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 tom
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orrow. | —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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Kitchen Definition–noun | 1. | a room or place equipped for cooking. | | 2. | culinary department; cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen. | | 3. | the staff or equipment of a kitchen. | –adjective | 4. | of, pertaining to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains. | | 5. | employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help. | | 6. | of or resembling a pidginized language, esp. one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language. | |
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Island Definition–noun | 1. | a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. | | 2. | something resembling an island, esp. in being isolated or having little or no direct communication with others. | | 3. | a raised platform with a counter or other work surface on top situated in the middle area of a room, esp. a kitchen, so as to permit access from all sides. | | 5. | a low concrete platform for gasoline pumps at an automotive service station. | | 6. | a clump of woodland in a prairie. | | 8. | Anat
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omy. an isolated portion of tissue differing in structure from the surrounding tissue. | | 9. | Railroads. a platform or building between sets of tracks. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to make into an island. | | 12. | to place on an island; isolate. | |
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