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📖 Определения и значения для слова block

📒 a large piece of a solid material that is square or rectangular in shape and usually has flat sides

  • The houses are made of concrete blocks with tin roofs.
  • block of something a block of ice/wood
  • The wall was made from massive blocks of stone.

📒 a tall building that contains flats or offices; buildings that form part of a school, hospital, etc. which are used for a particular purpose

  • a block of flats
  • a tower block
  • an office block

📒 the length of one side of a piece of land or group of buildings, from the place where one street crosses it to the next

  • His apartment is three blocks away from the police station.
  • They walked a few blocks down the street.

📒 a group of buildings with streets on all sides

  • around the block She took the dog for a walk around the block.
  • (North American English) The downtown area covers four city blocks.
  • The hotel occupies an entire block.

📒 a large area of land

📒 an area of land for building a house on

📒 a quantity of something or an amount of time that is considered as a single unit

  • a block of shares
  • a block of text in a document
  • (British English) The theatre gives discounts for block bookings (= a large number of tickets bought at the same time).

📒 something that makes movement or progress difficult or impossible

  • Lack of training acts as a block to progress in a career.
  • I suddenly had a mental block and couldn't remember his name.

📒 a movement that stops another player from going forward

📒 the two blocks on the ground that runners push their feet against at the beginning of a race

📒 (in the past) the piece of wood on which a person’s head was cut off as a punishment

📒 a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave

📒 to be sold, especially at an auction (= a sale in which items are sold to the person who offers the most money)

📒 to have a lot of experience

📒 used to threaten somebody that you will hit them

📒 a person who is new to a place, an organization, etc.

  • Despite his six years in politics, he was still regarded by many as the new kid on the block.

📒 to risk losing your job, damaging your reputation, etc. by doing or saying something

  • It's not a matter that I'm prepared to put my head on the block for.
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