Block

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

   “a block of ice; a block of stone”

2. isim A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

   “Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.”

3. isim A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

   “Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.”

4. isim A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

   “He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.”

5. isim A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
6. isim A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
7. isim A section of split logs used as fuel.

   “She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'”

8. isim A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.

   “a block of 100 tickets”

9. isim The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
10. isim In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.

    “But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.”

11. isim A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.

    “a block of text; a block of colour; a block of land”

12. isim A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
13. isim A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
14. isim A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.

    “a block of data; a block of seven days; a block reservation”

15. isim A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.

    “After one disk is mapped, the next block starts at address 0 on the next disk.”

16. isim A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

    “With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.”

17. isim A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
18. isim A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
19. isim A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
20. isim A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).

    “The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.”

21. fiil To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

    “The pipe was blocked by leaves.”

22. fiil To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

    “A broken-down car is blocking the traffic.”

23. fiil To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).

    “His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.”

24. fiil To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).

    “He blocked the basketball player’s shot.”

25. fiil To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

    “It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.”

26. fiil To hit with a block.
27. fiil To play a block shot.
28. fiil To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.

    “I tried to send you a message, but you’ve blocked me!”

29. fiil To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).

    “They’ve blocked all calls to international numbers.”

30. fiil To wait for some condition to become true.

    “When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.”