English English Dictionary

block in English:

1. Obstruct

He obstructed my progress

A tree obstructed the road and we couldn't pass.

The new building across the street obstructs what used to be a fine view.

You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway.

The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.

After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings.

People were obstructing the evacuation.

One of the visitors cried out to obstruct the proceedings.

2. of concrete

English word "block"(of concrete) occurs in sets:

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3. closing

The library is closing.

Would you mind closing the door?

I am thinking of closing my savings account.

The books will be shipped out tomorrow before closing.

The Nikkei index jumped dramatically just before closing.

Tom deposited three thousand dollars in the bank just before closing time.

I'm closing my store.

Today was the school closing ceremony for 2008.

The doors of the train on line 3 are closing. Please be careful.

There are only a few consequences of closing the canteen.

The commemorative ceremony ended with the closing address.

Friendly Reminder: Please keep in mind the closing time of the line you need to switch to, so as to avoid delays in your trip.

Of course "Hayabusa" is not actually closing in on the Sun, it is just positioned as in the figure so that, seen from the Earth, it is on the opposite side of the Sun; this is called 'conjunction'.

Today is our regular closing day.

Kaname, when can you leave? "It's till closing so it takes till eight."

4. block

Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.

Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.

I need sun block.

Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.

From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.

I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!

A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.

And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.

One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.

Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.

The manager blocked his suggestion because he didn’t like it.

This block of apartments is a building that takes both the environment and health into consideration. From now on we want to further expand this system and knowhow.

Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses.

5. a solid piece of something or the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it

6. dam

The villagers were displaced by the construction of a dam.

As more rainfall is expected over the next few days, they will probably open the dam.

This dam was built at the cost of many lives.

This dam supplies us with water and electricity.

There used to be a village here before the dam was made.

The dam burst.

Is there much water in the dam?

The construction of the dam created an artificial lake that destroyed a whole ecosystem.

The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.

Building a dam on a river changes the whole ecosystem.

When I acknowledged and accepted what I was truly feeling, the dam inside of me finally burst open

dam the bleeding

There are a lot of dams in Turkey.

A dam, is a construction built across the river to block the flow of the water.

An oil leak was contained by a beaver dam in Alberta.

7. square piece of a city that is built on a grid

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