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A tool used in machining fields, especially milling, to aid in setup. It is a block of steel that is precisely squared and parallel whose sides are 2, 4, and 6 inches long, respectively. 2-4-6 blocks are a larger version of the more common 1-2-3 block.
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Alternative form of autoblock [(climbing) To use the autoblock technique.]
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The act or incidence of a bed blocker.
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Alternative form of bed blocker [(chiefly UK, idiomatic, derogatory, medicine, public policy) An elderly hospitalized person who is too infirm to return home but not sufficiently ill to necessitate continued hospitalization, creating a situation in which his or her hospital stay is prolonged while authorities or relatives search for a suitable placement amid the scarce resources of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.]
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Abbreviation of block. [A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.]
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(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
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(mathematics) In combinatorial mathematics, a set together with a family of subsets (repeated subsets are allowed at times) whose members are chosen to satisfy some set of properties deemed useful for a particular application.
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(mathematics, education) A simple two-dimensional bar chart that shows amounts or quantities as blocks.
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(transitive) To obstruct.
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(transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
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(transitive) To completely block or obstruct.
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(transitive) To book (reserve in advance) a large number of (hotel rooms, tickets, etc.) at one time.
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Alternative form of blocklong [Extending the length of a city block.]
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(transitive) To create a blockade against.
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(rare) One who, or that which, is blocked.
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A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
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(microscopy) The side of a resin block containing a sample, used in some forms of scanning electron microscopy.
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A surface covered by block-sized angular rocks, usually associated with alpine and subpolar climates and periglaciation.
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To perform as a human blockhead.
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Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
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A person employed to lay down blocks of material, for example as a road surface.
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(transitive) To place on a blocklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be blocked
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Extending the length of a city block.
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Alternative spelling of block model [(shipbuilding) A scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.]
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Synonym of blocko (“type of community party”)
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Obsolete form of blocked. [Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.]
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Rare spelling of block. [(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.]
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(originally military) A piece of paper attached to a file, memorandum, etc., indicating who should read it and what action to take.
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A block made of wood or plastic that is used as a children's toy and can be stacked or joined to form a larger structure.
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A block (cuboid) with holes in it of varying sizes, designed for various-sized burs (drill bits).
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(idiomatic) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
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(by extension) A dangerous predicament or situation.
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Alternative spelling of chump block [(collectible card games) To block an attack from a powerful attacker with a weak defender that will neither survive the attack nor destroy the attacker.]
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(vulgar, slang, by extension) To prevent someone from achieving a goal, aggressively getting in the way (e.g. an intentionally difficult level of a video game).
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A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
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Ellipsis of data blocker.
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(slang) Synonym of supervised injection site
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Synonym of gapers' block
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Synonym of gapers' block
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Synonym of gapers' block
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Alternative form of giftset [A set of products packaged together for individual sale as a gift.]
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One who or that which hashes (in various senses).
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To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.
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To turn off something (e.g. a car) using a key.
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(transitive) To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes a square to look like a trapezoid.
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A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
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(business, economics) An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.
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(automotive) Alternative form of long block [(automotive) An engine subassembly that consists of the assembled short block, plus the crankshaft, cylinder head, camshaft (usually), and valve train.]
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(archaeology) An area of a dig where there are multiple adjacent block excavations
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A small geographic area used in some censuses
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(finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
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To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
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Alternative form of pillow block [a metal block for supporting a rotating shaft; a bearing]
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(historical) Any of a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer and its successors, the earliest dating from the 12th century.
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Alternative spelling of power cut [An interruption in the supply of power (usually electricity).]
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A pushstick in the form of a solid block.
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(Canada, US, urban studies) To deny or complicate access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific, often racially determined, areas.
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(colloquial, transitive) To prevent, hinder.
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(Britain) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
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A form of trade, a series of exchanges in which each person in turn receives items of the same value from the previous person, finally returning to the original donor. For example in (philately) a stamp collector sends a packet of stamps to the next person on a list, who then takes the stamps he wants, replacing them with like-valued stamps, and then passing the packet to the next person on the list, until the packet ultimately returns to the original sender.
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Alternative form of scribing block [(metalworking)]
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(transitive) to place (information) into a sidebar, or as if into a sidebar
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(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
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An aluminium block, of varying thickness, used to standardise radiographic exposures
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(transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
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Something that stops the progress of a wave (in any of several contexts).
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