[uhn-blok] 
| 1. | to remove a block or obstruction from: to unblock a channel; to unblock a person's credit. |
| 2. | Bridge. to play (a suit) so that the last card of the suit in one hand can provide access to the hand of the partnership having the longer holding in the suit. |
[blok] | 1. | a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces. |
| 2. | a hollow masonry building unit of cement, terra cotta, etc.: a wall made of concrete blocks. |
| 3. | one of a set of cube-shaped pieces of wood, plastic, or the like, used as a child's toy in building. |
| 4. | a mold or piece on which something is shaped or kept in shape: a hat block. |
| 5. | a piece of wood used in the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings. |
| 6. | Printing. the base on which a plate is mounted to make it type-high. |
| 7. | a projection left on a squared stone to provide a means of lifting it. |
| 8. | a short length of plank serving as a bridging, as between joists. |
| 9. | a stump or wooden structure on which a condemned person is beheaded: Mary Stuart went bravely to the block. |
| 10. | auction block. |
| 11. | Machinery. a part enclosing one or more freely rotating, grooved pulleys, about which ropes or chains pass to form a hoisting or hauling tackle. |
| 12. | an obstacle, obstruction, or hindrance: His stubbornness is a block to all my efforts. |
| 13. | the state or condition of being obstructed; blockage: The traffic block lasted several hours. |
| 14. | Pathology.
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| 15. | Sports. a hindering of an opponent's actions. |
| 16. | a quantity, portion, or section taken as a unit or dealt with at one time: a large block of theater tickets. |
| 17. | a small section of a city, town, etc., enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets: She lives on my block. |
| 18. | the length of one side of such a section: We walked two blocks over. |
| 19. | Chiefly British. a large building divided into separate apartments, offices, shops, etc. |
| 20. | a large number of bonds or shares of stock sold together as a single unit. |
| 21. | Computers.
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| 22. | Railroads. any of the short lengths into which a track is divided for signaling purposes. |
| 23. | Philately. a group of four or more unseparated stamps, not in a strip. |
| 24. | Slang. a person's head. |
| 25. | Glassmaking. a wooden or metal cup for blocking a gather. |
| 26. | an obstruction or stoppage in mental processes or speech, esp. when related to stress, emotional conflict, etc. |
| 27. | writer's block. |
| 28. | Geology.
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| 29. | (in Canada) a wild or remote area of land that has not yet been surveyed: the Peace River block. |
| 30. | Automotive. cylinder block. |
| 31. | Falconry. a low perch to which a falcon is tethered outdoors. |
| 32. | to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes fol. by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage. |
| 33. | to fit with blocks; mount on a block. |
| 34. | to shape or prepare on or with a block: to block a hat; to block a sweater. |
| 35. | to join (the ends of boards or the like) by fastening to a block of wood. |
| 36. | Theater.
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| 37. | Pathology, Physiology. to stop the passage of impulses in (a nerve). |
| 38. | Computers. to group (contiguous data) together so as to allow to be read or written in a single operation. |
| 39. | Sports. to hinder or bar the actions or movements of (an opposing player), esp. legitimately. |
| 40. | Glassmaking.
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| 41. | Metalworking. to give (a forging) a rough form before finishing. |
| 42. | Electronics. to apply a high negative bias to the grid of (a vacuum tube), for reducing the plate current to zero. |
| 43. | to act so as to obstruct an opponent, as in football, hockey, and basketball: He doesn't get many baskets, but he sure can block. |
| 44. | Theater. to block a play, act, scene, stage, etc.: The director will block tomorrow. |
| 45. | to suffer a block. |
| 46. | block in or out, to sketch or outline roughly or generally, without details: She blocked out a color scheme for the interiors. |
| 47. | block out,
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| 48. | put or go on the block, to offer or be offered for sale at auction: to put family heirlooms on the block. |
| un·block (ŭn-blŏk') tr.v. un·blocked, un·block·ing, un·blocks To remove or clear an obstruction from: unblock a road; unblock an artery. |
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n.
Interruption, especially obstruction, of a normal physiological function.
Interruption, complete or partial, permanent or temporary, of the passage of a nervous impulse.
Atrioventricular block.
Sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observable cause, sometimes considered a consequence of repression.
