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Block
, Lager
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Blocked
- (imp. & p. p.) of Block
Synonyms:
Plugged,
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• Block book
- () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
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• Block system
- () A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.
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• Blockheaded
- (a.) Stupid; dull.
Synonyms:
Loggerheaded, Thick, Thick-skulled,
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• Blockheadism
- (n.) That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
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• Blockhouse
- (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.
- (n.) A house of squared logs.
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• Blockage
- (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
Synonyms:
Block, Closure, Obstruction, Occlusion, Stop, Stoppage,
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• Blockade
- (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.
- (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
- (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
- (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
- (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
Synonyms:
Bar, Barricade, Block, Embarrass, Hinder, Obstruct, Stymie,
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• Blocking course
- () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
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• Blockish
- (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
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