Block
French Meaning
bloc
obstacle
bâtiment
tranche
groupe
paquet
pavillon
embouteillage
série
bille
cliché
caboche
bloquer
obstruer
boucher
entraver
barrer
fermer
gêner
enrayer
geler
embouteiller
empêcher de passer
English Meaning
- A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, having one or more flat sides.
- Such a piece used as a construction member or as a support.
- Such a piece upon which chopping or cutting is done: a butcher's block.
- Such a piece upon which persons are beheaded.
- One of a set of small wooden or plastic pieces, such as a cube, bar, or cylinder, used as a building toy.
- Printing A large amount of text.
- Sports A starting block.
- A stand from which articles are displayed and sold at an auction: Many priceless antiques went on the block.
- A mold or form on which an item is shaped or displayed: a hat block.
- A substance, such as wood or stone, that has been prepared for engraving.
- A pulley or a system of pulleys set in a casing.
- An engine block.
- A bloc.
- A set of like items, such as shares of stock, sold or handled as a unit.
- A group of four or more unseparated postage stamps forming a rectangle.
- Canadian A group of townships in an unsurveyed area.
- A usually rectangular section of a city or town bounded on each side by consecutive streets.
- A segment of a street bounded by consecutive cross streets and including its buildings and inhabitants.
- A large building divided into separate units, such as apartments.
- A length of railroad track controlled by signals.
- The act of obstructing.
- Something that obstructs; an obstacle.
- Sports An act of bodily obstruction, as of a player or ball.
- Football Legal interference with an opposing player to clear the path of the ball carrier.
- Medicine Interruption or obstruction of a physiological function: nerve block.
- Psychology A sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observable cause, sometimes considered a consequence of repression. Also called mental block.
- Slang The human head: threatened to knock my block off.
- A blockhead.
- To shape into a block or blocks.
- To support, strengthen, or retain in place by means of a block.
- To shape, mold, or form with or on a block: block a hat.
- To stop or impede the passage of or movement through; obstruct: block traffic.
- To shut out from view: a curtain blocking the stage.
- To stop the passage of (a motion or bill) in a legislative assembly.
- To indicate broadly without great detail; sketch. Often used with out: block out a plan of action; block out stage movements.
- Sports To impede the movement of (an opponent or the ball) by physical interference.
- Medicine To interrupt or obstruct the proper functioning of (a physiological process), especially by the use of drugs.
- Psychology To fail to remember.
- To run (trains) on a block system.
- Sports To obstruct the movement of an opponent.
- To suffer a mental block. Often used with on: I blocked on his name.
- block out To cover over so as to be illegible: block out sensitive information from a document before releasing it.
- block out To repress (a traumatic event, for example) from conscious memory.
- go on the block To be offered for sale.
- out of the blocks From a starting position, as in a race or contest: The company has in the past been slow out of the blocks to adapt to consumer tastes.
- put on the block To offer for sale.