BLOCK
What does "BLOCK" mean?
A solid piece of hard material with flat sides, or an obstruction to movement.
Meanings
- A solid, usually rectangular piece of a hard substance such as wood or stone. The child stacked the wooden blocks into a tower.
- A group of buildings bounded by four streets, or the distance along one such side. The bakery is just two blocks from my apartment.
- To obstruct, prevent, or stop the movement or progress of something. A fallen tree blocked the entire road.
- To prevent an account or sender from contacting you online. She blocked the spammer after the third message. informal
- A contiguous unit of data, transactions, or memory treated as a single piece. Each block in the chain references the one before it. technical
Word origin
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'blok', meaning a tree trunk or log; entered English through Old French 'bloc' in the late 14th century.
Remember it
A BLOCK is a LOCK with a B in front - both stop things in their tracks.
A little poem
One block on the next,
the child builds a small city -
then learns about gravity.
haiku
Wordplay
- I walked around the block to clear writer's block, and came home with the same problem twice.
What it teaches
Every wall is just a stack of small solid choices - and so is every path.
Quick facts
What does BLOCK mean?
A solid piece of hard material with flat sides, or an obstruction to movement.
Is BLOCK a valid word?
Yes — BLOCK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BLOCK?
BLOCK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BLOCK come from?
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'blok', meaning a tree trunk or log; entered English through Old French 'bloc' in the late 14th century.
What can BLOCK teach us?
Every wall is just a stack of small solid choices - and so is every path.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.