All related terms of 'blocking'

A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.

a large solid piece of wood, stone , or other material with flat rectangular sides, as for use in building

the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home

acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline

an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf

a capacitor that blocks the passage of direct current but allows alternating current to pass

If you are blocked in , someone has parked their car in such a way that you cannot drive yours away.

If you block something up or if it blocks up , it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.

When you block off a door , window , or passage , you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.

If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.