Block

/blɒk/ · noun

Meaning

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance..

Definitions by Sense

1. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
2. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
3. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
4. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
5. A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
6. Something that prevents something from passing.
7. (slang) The human head.
8. (UK) Solitary confinement.

Example Sentences

a block of ice; a block of stone

She picked up the block and examined it.

a block of text; a block of colour; a block of land

a block of data; a block of seven days; a block reservation

The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.

I’m going for a walk around the block.

a block of flats; a tower block; an office block; a toilet block; a shower block

He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

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Word Forms

• blocks
• blocke
• blocking
• blocked

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