block - English → Finnish-Hungarian - Dictionary

n A residential building consisting of flats.

n A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

n A chopping block; a cuboid of wood, plastic or other material used as a base on which to cut something.

n A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

n The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

n (slang) The human head;

n A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

n A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.

n (nautical) Used with ropes or cables to facilitate lifting loads.

n (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sector | sectors (see cluster).

n (computing) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

n (context|rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.

n (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.

n Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).

n (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).

n (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.

n (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.

n (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.

n A section of split logs used as fuel.

n (misspelling of|bloc)

v (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

v (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

v (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).

v (transitive|sports) To impede an opponent.

v (transitive|theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.

v (transitive|cricket) To hit with a block.

v (intransitive|cricket) To play a block shot.

v (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.

v (computing) (intransitive) To wait.

v (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

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