Antonyms for block
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : blok |
| Phonetic Transcription : blÉ’k |
Definition of block
Origin :- "solid piece," c.1300, from Old French bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via Middle Dutch bloc "trunk of a tree" or Old High German bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk).
- Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from 1630s. Extended sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings; slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869.
- BLOCK. A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very useful one. [Bartlett]
- noun mass of material
- noun obstruction
- verb obstruct
- At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He left the block of offices and went towards Prince's Street.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- He hastened after her and saw her enter a block of offices in Cornhill.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- She held a brush in her hand, and she looked down at her block.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- Abbey was fetched immediately, but he only arrived in time to see me on the block.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- So he turned to Antoine, who had remained seated in front of a block he was engraving.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- Shell ore, block ore, and limestone also exist in abundance.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- Well, it's only a drizzle and we can take a streetcar to within a block of the house.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- A block system is devised and partly made, but is not yet erected.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 » by Various
- When the god is not present, his idol is merely a block of wood or stone.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
Synonyms for block
- arrest
- bar
- barricade
- barrier
- blank wall
- block out
- blockade
- blockage
- brake
- brick
- cake
- catch
- charge
- check
- choke
- chunk
- clog
- close
- close off
- close out
- congest
- cube
- cut off
- dam
- deter
- fill
- halt
- hang up
- hinder
- hindrance
- hold up
- hunk
- impede
- impediment
- ingot
- intercept
- interfere with
- jam
- loaf
- lump
- mass
- oblong
- obstacle
- obstruction
- occlude
- piece
- plug
- prevent
- roadblock
- section
- segment
- shut off
- shut out
- slab
- slice
- snag
- solid
- square
- stall
- stonewall
- stop
- stop up
- stoppage
- stopper
- stymie
- tackle
- take out of play
- thwart
- wall
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