Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for ablock, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.
She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put ablock on the fire.'
1803, Mary Tighe,Selena:
"Aye," said the farmer putting anotherblock on the fire as he spoke[…]
2012, Ron Herrett,Shorty's Story:
Dawn and Shorty would cut this tree intoblocks, while Randy and Matt went back for more. Dawn and Shorty made a good team on the crosscut, so when another log arrived, the first was almost completely made into shake wood.
A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[1] (Usenet):
But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of ablock or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.
1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 5/5)”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[2] (Usenet):
Perhaps the simplest puffer known is the following period 20 puffer based on the period 20 spaceship, which createsblocks.
2005 February 23, Dave Greene, “exist glider gun able of reconstruction in Life?”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[3] (Usenet):
Blocks have a couple of unusual properties: they are cleanly destroyed by an incoming glider on any one of six adjacent paths, and none of the possible collisions include any output gliders, so you can't get chain reactions.
A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
ablock of text; ablock of colour; ablock of land
(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postagestamps, forming a roughly square shape.
(viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
ablock of data; ablock of seven days; ablock reservation
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physicalsectors.
A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
I’m going for a walk around theblock.
The distance from one street to another in acity orsuburb that is built (approximately) to agrid pattern.
The place you are looking for is two longblocks east and one shortblock north.
1832,Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page423:
The Witness: Well, I have one that is 8/10 of a mile away; I have one that is just about another 8/10 of a mile away; I have one that is threeblocks away; I have one that is fourblocks away; I have one that is eightblocks away, and I have one that is about 14blocks away.
This uphill trail is like a battlefield. Anne offers to carry the older woman's backpack.[…] I couldn't walk threeblocks with the Danish woman's bulging backpack.
2017, Raymond E. Murphy,The Central Business District, page37:
A county courthouse and a municipal building, located approximately a cityblock north of the district, were automatically excluded because they were separated from the main CBD by severalblocks that did not reach either of the required index values.
A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
ablock of flats; a towerblock; an officeblock; a toiletblock; a showerblock
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous newblock of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but theblock was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
2011 February 12, Oliver Brett, “Sunderland 1–2 Tottenham”, inBBC[5]:
The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an importantblock with Jermain Defoe poised to strike.
(volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to thehitter’s court.
A temporary or permanentban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
The Wiktionary page-blanking vandal was hit with an indefiniteblock.
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block (third-person singular simple presentblocks,present participleblocking,simple past and past participleblocked)
(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
The pipe wasblocked by leaves.
You’reblocking the road – I can’t get through!
2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, inRail, page23:
However, atManchester the junctions and signals are so close that a train running more slowly over several junctions simplyblocks those junctions for longer, preventing other trains moving.
(transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
A broken-down car isblocking the traffic.
(transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
His plan to take over the business wasblocked by the boss.
2019 November 25, Austin Ramzy, Tiffany May, Katherine Li, Elaine Yu, “Here’s What 5 of Hong Kong’s Newly Elected Politicians Have to Say”, inThe New York Times[6],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2019-11-25[7]:
Mr. Ip, who was the chairman of the Yau Tsim Mong district council, became a target of protesters in July after heblocked debate on the extradition bill that incited the protests this summer.
I tried to send you a message, but you’veblocked me!
The user who started the edit war wasblocked for a day to cool off.
2024 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest”, inThe Atlantic[8]:
He messages her occasionally on Facebook, sending photos of grandkids and puppies he’s raised. Every year, he wishes her a happy birthday. She has not replied, but she has also notblocked him.
(transitive) Tobar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
They’veblocked all calls to international numbers.
When the condition expression is false, the threadblocks on the condition variable.
2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer,Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page25:
Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the callblocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, inGay Community News, page 8:
As I started to read the stories I thought, "I have to write my story," but Iblocked on it for six months. I couldn't write anything else while I couldn't write my coming out story. It seemed to me a subterfuge to turn out an anthology of coming out stories which didn't have my story in it.
