I like to eat apples with cheese = Me gusta comer manzanas con queso.
apple
1. s. A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
2. s. Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple
3. s. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
4. s. A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
5. s. The wood of the apple tree.
6. s. (in the Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
7. s. (baseball, slang) The ball in baseball.
8. s. (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
9. s. (pejorative, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
1. s. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
a block of ice
a block of stone
2. s. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
3. s. 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. s. A residential building consisting of flats.
a block of flats
5. s. 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. s. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
a mental block
writer's block
7. s. (slang) The human head.
I'll knock your block off!
8. s. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
9. s. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
10. s. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
a block of 100 tickets
11. s. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
12. s. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
13. s. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
14. s. (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. s. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
16. s. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
17. s. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. s. (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. s. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. s. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
21. s. A section of split logs used as fuel.
22. s. (UK) Solitary confinement.
23. s. A cellblock.
24. s. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
25. s. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
26. s. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
27. s. (rail) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
28. s. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
29. s. (cricket) A blockhole.
30. s. (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.
41. s. misspelling of bloc
city block
city block
1. s. The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.
The store is huge, occupying an entire city block.
2. s. The distance from one urban street to the next, or an approximately comparable distance.
In Lawrence, a mile is generally 12 city blocks east-west or 8 blocks north-south.
Go along that road for about a city block, and you should see an old barn.
