block [countable]
1 a piece of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides
solid material
2
streets/area
a) American English the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next :
Head for 44th Street, a few blocks east of Sixth Avenue.
The church is down the block.
b) the four city streets that form a square around an area of buildings :
Let's walk round the block.
She grew up playing with the other kids on the block.
c) Australian English a large piece of land :
a ten acre block near the city
3 a large building divided into separate parts
large building
an office block
the school science block
4 a quantity of things of the same kind, considered as a single unit
quantity of things
block of
New employees receive a block of shares in the firm.
Set aside blocks of time for doing your homework.
5 an arrangement that is made for a whole group to buy something or to vote together
block booking/voting
6 the temporary loss of your normal ability to think, learn, write etc :
inability to think
[usually singular]
7something that prevents movement or progress
stopping movement
[usually singular]
block to
➔ roadblock, stumbling block
a major block to progress
8 in the past, a solid block of wood on which someone's head was cut off as a punishment
punishment
the block
9 to risk destroying other people's opinion of you or losing your job by doing or saying something :
put your head/neck on the block
I'm not prepared to put my head on the block for him.
10 a movement in sport that stops an opponent going forward or playing the ball forward
sport
11 to be sold, especially at an auction :
sell
go on the block
$500 million worth of art will go on the block.
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