Definitions for blocking

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blocking block·ing

Spelling: [blok-ing]

IPA: /ˈblɒk ɪŋ/

Blocking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in blocking (bcgiklno).

Definitions for blocking

noun

1. a number of small pieces of wood for filling interstices, or for spacing, joining, or reinforcing members.
2. a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
3. a hollow masonry building unit of cement, terra cotta, etc.:
4. one of a set of cube-shaped pieces of wood, plastic, or the like, used as a child's toy in building.
5. a mold or piece on which something is shaped or kept in shape:
6. a piece of wood used in the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings.
7. Printing. the base on which a plate is mounted to make it type-high.
8. a projection left on a squared stone to provide a means of lifting it.
9. a short length of plank serving as a bridging, as between joists.
10. a stump or wooden structure on which a condemned person is beheaded:
11. auction block.
12. Machinery. a part enclosing one or more freely rotating, grooved pulleys, about which ropes or chains pass to form a hoisting or hauling tackle.
13. an obstacle, obstruction, or hindrance:
14. the state or condition of being obstructed; blockage:
15. Pathology. an obstruction, as of a nerve. heart block.
16. Sports. a hindering of an opponent's actions.
17. a quantity, portion, or section taken as a unit or dealt with at one time:
18. a small section of a city, town, etc., enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets:
19. the length of one side of such a section:
20. Chiefly British. a large building divided into separate apartments, offices, shops, etc.
21. a large number of bonds or shares of stock sold together as a single unit.
22. Computers. a group of data stored as a unit on an external storage medium and handled as a unit by the computer for input or output: a section of storage locations in a computer allocated to a particular set of instructions or data. a group of consecutive machine words organized as a unit and guiding a particular computer operation, especially with reference to input and output. (on a flow chart) a symbol representing an operation, device, or instruction in a computer program.
23. Railroads. any of the short lengths into which a track is divided for signaling purposes.
24. Philately. a group of four or more unseparated stamps, not in a strip.
25. Slang. a person's head.
26. Glassmaking. a wooden or metal cup for blocking a gather.
27. an obstruction or stoppage in mental processes or speech, especially when related to stress, emotional conflict, etc.
28. writer's block.
29. Geology. any large, angular mass of solid rock. fault block.
30. (in Canada) a wild or remote area of land that has not yet been surveyed:
31. Automotive. cylinder block.
32. Falconry. a low perch to which a falcon is tethered outdoors.

Idioms

1. put / go on the block, to offer or be offered for sale at auction:

Verb phrases

1. block in/out, to sketch or outline roughly or generally, without details:
2. block out, block (def 36a). Basketball. to box out.

verb (used with object)

1. to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up):
2. to fit with blocks; mount on a block.
3. to shape or prepare on or with a block:
4. to join (the ends of boards or the like) by fastening to a block of wood.
5. Theater. Also, block out. to plan or work out the movement of performers in a play, pageant, etc.: to draw a floor plan on (a stage) in order to indicate placement of scenery, stage property, etc.
6. Pathology, Physiology. to stop the passage of impulses in (a nerve).
7. Computers. to group (contiguous data) together so as to allow to be read or written in a single operation.
8. Sports. to hinder or bar the actions or movements of (an opposing player), especially legitimately.
9. Glassmaking. to shape (a molten gather) in a wet cup of wood or metal. to plunge a block of wood into (molten glass) to aid in refining the glass.
10. Metalworking. to give (a forging) a rough form before finishing.
11. Electronics. to apply a high negative bias to the grid of (a vacuum tube), for reducing the plate current to zero.

verb (used without object)

1. to act so as to obstruct an opponent, as in football, hockey, and basketball:
2. Theater. to block a play, act, scene, stage, etc.:
3. to suffer a block.

Origin of blocking

First recorded in 1575-85; block + -ing¹

Examples for blocking

This was blocking the channel, and there was no more chance for getting off in that way.

For starters, the Ello beta launched without any privacy controls or blocking options.

Of course, I ought not to be standing here, blocking the way!

This same fear has recently resurfaced as the number one excuse for blocking a proposed subway through Beverly Hills.

That was when the blinds were closed, blocking Fretland and the other witnesses from what happened next.

Somebody in the drifting crowd was standing before her and blocking the way.

The owner of the Jas-Meiffren had not even thought of blocking it up.

During the ensuing protests, Sharpton spoke of blocking a major highway, U.S. 40.

Mr. Hervey stopped because the man was blocking the sidewalk.

Because of this, the peacekeeping forces have been blocking Muslims from leaving on envoys out of the country.