block
- noun
- /blɑk/
- After work, I like to walk a few extra blocks to the bus for exercise.
- city block
- blocks away
- two blocks
This is my this is my block that you, you have to.
- This is my this is my block that you, you have to.
- It's a few blocks and I mean the most.
- I'm like hidden in the DT block but like this place.
- They had a club on the corner of my block named Ghost Town.
- She got on the bus, walked the block, walked up the stairs, seamless.
- And I'm walking down the block to my mom's house.
Examples
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The modern, single-story homes fill all four sides of a city block and offer low-income families affordable housing.
Academic text (2011) -
This house is a block away from where I live now.
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Two blocks from here, three from the restaurant.
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I only live three blocks from there.
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It's an ugly building about the size of a city block and a couple of stories high.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll be about four blocks away.
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We're going to go take a victory lap around the block.
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This is a very small block in Kobe City.
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Kenwick spans six Main Street blocks in length and expands up to three blocks northwest of Main Street.
Academic text (2011) -
The new park is located on the next block near the school.
Synonyms
An area in a city surrounded by streets that usually has several buildings
A large city area that joins several blocks to reduce car traffic and encourage walking
Idioms
- Informal
A person who is very like one of their parents in looks or behaviour
Compounds
- Formal
Money given by a national government to local governments for a general purpose with few rules
- Specialized
A metal part of an engine that holds the cylinders and channels for cooling
- Specialized
The heart's signals stop partly or completely, causing slow, irregular beats and fainting
- Specialized
A simple picture showing the main parts of a system and how they connect
- Literature
A vote by a delegate that counts for the number of people they represent
- Specialized
A solid piece of metal in an engine that holds the cylinders where the pistons move and cooling passages
- Specialized
A heart problem when electrical signals between the upper and lower chambers are slow or stop causing fainting
- Specialized
An injection that numbs the nerves near the vagina to reduce pain during childbirth
- Specialized
A way to make part of the body numb by putting medicine near a nerve
An uppercase letter written clearly and not joined to other letters often used on forms
- Archaic
A small wheel used with a rope to help raise sails at the top of a ship's mast
- Specialized
An injection of pain medicine into the lower part of the spine to numb the lower body for surgery
- Specialized
A light concrete block used for building, made from waste from burned coal instead of stone
- Specialized
A small piece of felt that drops on a piano string to stop it from vibrating
- Specialized
A part of a disk where data cannot be read or written because it is damaged
- Specialized
A block in a blockchain that the network computers do not accept because it breaks the rules
- Specialized
A way to numb one body part by injecting medicine near a nerve
- Specialized
A wheel with a groove that a rope runs in to lift things or change the rope's direction
- Specialized
A method that numbs the area that would touch a saddle by injecting medicine near the spine
- Specialized
An injection of numbing medicine beside the cervix to reduce pain during childbirth
- Specialized
A metal block that supports a shaft so it can turn smoothly with a bearing inside
- Specialized
A tool with a sharp point on a stand that checks flat surfaces or marks lines on metal
- Specialized
A heavy iron block with holes and grooves that helps shape hot metal in a forge
- Jargon
In American football, an illegal action where a player hits another player from the side or behind
- Specialized
A pulley that opens so you can place a rope inside without passing the end through
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Etymology
Block for a city area comes from the same old word bloc meaning a single 'piece' or chunk, so a city block is like one chunk of buildings or land between streets.