blocker Definition

block
noun

1. A mass of solid wood, stone, ice or other hard material, usually with flat sides.

Thesaurus: mass, chunk, slab, piece, hunk (slang), ingot, square, brick, cake, cube, slice, loaf, clod.
2a. A piece of wood or stone, etc used for chopping and cutting on;
2b. historical
A piece of wood used for beheading, across which the condemned person laid their neck.
Form: the block
3. A wooden or plastic cube, used as a child's toy.
4. slang
A person's head.
Example: knock his block off
5. A large building containing offices, flats, etc. N Amer equivalent apartment house or apartment building.
6a. A group of buildings with roads on all four sides;

Example: Let's take a walk around the block
6b. The distance from one end of such a group of buildings to the other.

Example: lives about a block away
(Austral)
(NZ)
7. An extensive area of land for settlement or farming, etc.
8. A compact mass, group or set.
9. A group of seats, tickets, votes, data, shares, etc thought of as a single unit.
10. Something which causes or acts as a stopping of movement or progress, etc; an obstruction.

Example: road block
Thesaurus: obstruction, barrier, hindrance, bar, obstacle, blockage, jam (slang), impediment.
11. A psychological barrier preventing progress in thought or development, etc.

Example: writer's block
Example: a mental block
12. sport.especially Amer football.
Obstruction of an opposing player.
13. athletics.
A starting-block.
Example: fast off the block
14. medicine.
The obstruction of nerve impulses to a particular area of the body by means of an injection of local anaesthetic.
Form: nerve block (also)
15. A piece of wood or metal which has been cut to be used in printing.
16. engineering.
A pulley or set of pulleys mounted in a case, often with rope or chain passing over it, used as part of a lifting tackle. See also block and tackle.

verb blocked, blocking

1. To obstruct or impede; to put an obstacle in the way of someone or something.

Thesaurus: impede, hinder, prevent, arrest, bar, check, deter, halt, thwart, stonewall (slang), plug.
2. To print (a design, title, etc) on (the cover of a book, piece of material, etc).
3. cricket.
To stop (a ball) with one's bat held upright and touching on the ground.
tr & intr
4. sport.
To obstruct the play or action of (an opposing player).
5. medicine.
To interrupt or obstruct (a normal physiological function), such as a nerve impulse, eg with an anaesthetic.
6. theat.
To practise the moves in (a scene, etc).

Derivative: blocked
adj

See also blocked style.

Derivative: blocker

See separate entry.

Idiom: do one's block

(hiefly Austral & NZ)
slang
To become very angry or excited; to lose one's temper.

Etymology: 14c: from French bloc.

Phrasal Verb: block someone or something in

To prevent them or it from moving or from getting out; to confine them.To draw or sketch them or it roughly, often simply to show their position in a layout.

Phrasal Verb: block something off

To restrict or limit the use of (an area or place, etc).
Example: The police have blocked off several streets

Phrasal Verb: block something out

To shut out (eg light, or an idea, etc).To draw or sketch it roughly.To practise the moves in (a scene, etc).

Phrasal Verb: block something up

To block it completely.To fill (a window or doorway, etc) with bricks, etc.

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blocker
noun

1. A person or thing that blocks in any sense.
2. medicine.
A substance, used as a drug, that prevents the production or operation of some other substance in the body.
3. sport.
A player who blocks (verb 4).