blocking
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈblɑːkɪŋ/
:
bloqueo
- He played a key role in the game by providing strong blocking that allowed the running back to make significant progress.
- blocking height
- 50% blocking
- 95% blocking
If you can't stop that, if you can't do enough blocking, then no backing and forthing.
- If you can't stop that, if you can't do enough blocking, then no backing and forthing.
- So then with the blocking, what was that like?
Examples
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Ruark was considered perhaps the best blocking guard to play for Coach Butts during his twenty-two years as Georgia's coach.
Academic text (2014) -
We're establishing a dismounted blocking position near the river up in Rawah.
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And look at this blocking in the table here.
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Sir, if this is about the blocking position, I stand behind my decision and I accept full responsibility for all of my actions...
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"We ought to get a squad to do some blocking for us."
Fiction book (1994) -
Warrior 1-1, it's critical you get that blocking position established.
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McFadden is better when running behind a power blocking scheme, as he was the last two years.
Blog text (1) -
John Sullivan is quite clearly the best run-blocking center in the league, and it's not close.
Blog text (1) -
If we infill teams here and here tonight, we can set up our blocking positions, hopefully draw enough wiggle room for the marines tomorrow.
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The blocking of neurotransmitters by certain toxins has been proven to cause hallucinations, asphyxiation and paralysis.
Synonyms
163
2.8
A thing that blocks movement or keeps places apart
89
2.0
An action in sport that stops another player from moving
73
4.7
Something used to hold a person or animal still
43
4.4
A thing that blocks a passage like a pipe or artery
41
2.8
A barrier on a road that stops and checks vehicles
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4.1
Something that blocks a pipe or blood vessel and stops flow
A block that keeps a vehicle from moving past the end of a track
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.8
A medicine that stops or reduces a body process, for example a hormone action
- Specialized
1
5.9
A drug that stops nerve signals to muscles and makes them relax or stop moving
- Specialized
A drug that treats high blood pressure and fast heartbeat by slowing the heart
- Specialized
A medicine that relaxes blood vessel and bladder muscles to lower blood pressure and help pass urine
- Specialized
A climbing tool that automatically locks and stops the rope if a climber falls
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
blocking = block (transparent) = ing
This is the ordinary verbal noun in -ing formed from the verb 'block', and the meaning is directly recoverable from the base verb.
Etymology
Blocking comes from block, which originally meant 'a piece of wood' or a large object used as an 'obstacle'. So blocking in sport or in movement is putting yourself or something in the way to stop someone from moving.