| 单词 | block |
| 释义 | Word Frequency block(blɒk) noun 1. a large solid piece of wood, stone, or other material with flat rectangular sides, as for use in building 2. any large solid piece of wood, stone, etc, usually having at least one face fairly flat 3. such a piece on which particular tasks may be done, as chopping, cutting, or beheading 4. Also called: building block one of a set of wooden or plastic cubes as a child's toy 5. a form on which things are shaped or displayed a wig block 6. slang a person's head (esp in the phrase knock someone's block off) 7. do one's block 8. a dull, unemotional, or hardhearted person 9. a large building of offices, flats, etc 10. a. a group of buildings in a city bounded by intersecting streets on each side b. the area or distance between such intersecting streets 11. Australian and New Zealand an area of land for a house, farm, etc 12. Australian and New Zealand a log, usually a willow, fastened to a timber base and used in a wood-chopping competition 13. an area of land, esp one to be divided for building or settling 14. cylinder block 15. a. a piece of wood, metal, or other material having an engraved, cast, or carved design in relief, used either for printing or for stamping book covers, etc b. British a letterpress printing plate, esp one mounted type-high on wood or metal 16. a casing housing one or more freely rotating pulleys See also block and tackle 17. on the block 18. the act of obstructing or condition of being obstructed, as in sports 19. an obstruction or hindrance 20. pathology a. interference in the normal physiological functioning of an organ or part b. heart block c. nerve block 21. psychology a short interruption of perceptual or thought processes 22. obstruction of an opponent in a sport 23. a. a section or quantity, as of tickets or shares, handled or considered as a single unit b. (as modifier) a block booking block voting 24. a. a stretch of railway in which only one train may travel at a time b. (as modifier) a block signal 25. an unseparated group of four or more postage stamps Compare strip1 (sense 3) 26. a pad of paper 27. computing a group of words treated as a unit of data on a tape, disk, etc 28. athletics short for starting block 29. cricket a mark made near the popping crease by a batsman to indicate his or her position in relation to the wicket 30. a chip off the old block verb (mainly tr) 31. to shape or form (something) into a block 32. to fit with or mount on a block 33. to shape by use of a block to block a hat 34. (often foll by up) to obstruct (a passage, channel, etc) or prevent or impede the motion, flow, or access of (something or someone) by introducing an obstacle to block the traffic to block up a pipe 35. to impede, retard, or prevent (an action, procedure, etc) to block the publication of a book 36. to prevent (a person, organization, etc) from performing an action or procedure to block a nuisance caller 37. to stamp (a title, design, etc) on (a book cover, etc) by means of a block (see sense15), esp using gold leaf or other foil 38. (esp of a government or central bank) to limit the use or conversion of assets or currency 39. (also intr) sport to obstruct or impede movement by (an opponent) 40. (intransitive) to suffer a psychological block 41. to interrupt a physiological function, as by use of an anaesthetic 42. (also intr) cricket to play (a ball) defensively Derived forms blocker (ˈblocker) noun Word origin C14: from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok; related to Old High German bloh |
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