1. n. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d'Angleterre située dans le district de Mendip.
2. n. (Urbanisme) Rue.
street
1. n. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street.
2. n. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
3. n. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
4. n. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
5. n. (slang) Street talk or slang.
6. n. (figuratively) A great distance.
He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
7. n. (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
8. n. Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
I got some pot cheap on the street.
9. n. (attributive) Living in the streets.
Street cat.
Street urchin.
10. n. (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
11. adj. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
12. v. To build or equip with streets.
13. v. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
14. v. (sports) To heavily defeat.
15. v. To go on sale.
16. v. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
1. n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
a block of ice
a block of stone
2. n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
3. n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
I'm going for a walk around the block.
4. n. A residential building consisting of flats.
a block of flats
5. n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.
6. n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
a mental block
writer's block
7. n. (slang) The human head.
I'll knock your block off!
8. n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
9. n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
10. n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
a block of 100 tickets
11. n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
12. n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
13. n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
14. n. (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.
15. n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
16. n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
17. n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. 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.
19. n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
21. n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
22. n. (UK) Solitary confinement.
23. n. A cellblock.
24. n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
25. n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
26. n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
27. n. (rail) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
28. n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
29. n. (cricket) A blockhole.
30. n. (cricket) The popping crease.
31. v. To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
The pipe is blocked.
32. v. To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
You're blocking the road – I can't get through.
33. v. To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
34. v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
He blocked the basketball player's shot.
The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
35. v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
36. v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
38. v. To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
39. v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
40. v. To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
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