1.  block(n = noun.artifact) - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks"
is a kind of artefact, artifact
has particulars: anvil, briquet, briquette, bar, cake, chock, wedge, chopping block, crosshead, cube, square block, domino, block of metal, ingot, metal bar, nog, nut, inking pad, inkpad, pad, stamp pad, slab, starting block, step, swage block, type
Derived form adjective blocky₁

2.  block(n = noun.location) city block - a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings; "he lives in the next block"
is a kind of area, country

3.  block(n = noun.shape) cube - a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides;
is a kind of solid
has particulars: goldbrick
Derived forms verb block₁₄, adjective blocky₁

4.  block(n = noun.group) - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock"
is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection

5.  block(n = noun.artifact) - housing in a large building that is divided into separate units; "there is a block of classrooms in the west wing"
is a kind of housing, living accommodations, lodging
has particulars: cellblock, ward, hospital ward, ward

6.  block(n = noun.quantity) - (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted; "since blocks are often defined as a single sector, the terms `block' and `sector' are sometimes used interchangeably"
is a kind of computer memory unit
has parts: sector
has particulars: bad block

7.  block(n = noun.cognition) mental block - an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension; "I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block"
is a kind of inability
has particulars: writer's block
Derived form verb block₁₃

8.  block(n = noun.artifact) pulley, pulley block, pulley-block - a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope;
is a kind of machine, simple machine
is a part of block and tackle
has particulars: bollock, bullock block, fairlead, idle pulley, idle wheel, idler pulley

9.  block(n = noun.artifact) cylinder block, engine block - a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine; "the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked"
is a kind of cast, casting
is a part of ice, internal-combustion engine, reciprocating engine
has parts: cylinder, piston chamber

10.  block(n = noun.artifact) blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
is a kind of impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor
has particulars: breech closer, breechblock, plug, stopper, stopple, vapor lock, vapour lock
Derived form verb block₉

11.  block(n = noun.artifact) auction block - a platform from which an auctioneer sells; "they put their paintings on the block"
is a kind of platform

12.  block(n = noun.act) blocking - the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements;
is a kind of obstruction
has particulars: interference, trap block, parry
Derived form verb block₁₂

1.  block(v = verb.contact) bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
is one way to block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
Derived forms noun blockage₃, noun blocking₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  block(v = verb.social) blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy - hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn"
is one way to forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent
Derived forms noun blockage₃, noun blockage₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  block(v = verb.social) halt, kibosh, stop - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
is one way to forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent
Derived form noun blockage₃
Sample sentences: They block him from writing the letter

4.  block(v = verb.communication) jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
is one way to break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

5.  block(v = verb.social) - run on a block system; "block trains"
is one way to operate, run
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  block(v = verb.perception) - interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia; "block a nerve"; "block a muscle"
is one way to anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under
Derived form noun blocker₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

7.  block(v = verb.perception) obstruct - shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains"
is one way to conceal, hide
Derived form noun blockage₃
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

8.  block(v = verb.contact) - stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block; "block the book cover"
is one way to boss, emboss, stamp
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

9.  block(v = verb.contact) choke up, lug, stuff - obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
is one way to back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul
Derived forms noun block₁₀, noun blockage₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

10.  block(v = verb.contact) close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
is one way to hinder, impede
Derived form noun blocking₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

11.  block(v = verb.contact) - support, secure, or raise with a block; "block a plate for printing"; "block the wheels of a car"
is one way to hold, hold up, support, sustain
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

12.  block(v = verb.competition) deflect, parry - impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack"
is one way to fence
Derived forms noun block₁₂, noun blockage₃, noun blocker₁, noun blocking₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

13.  block(v = verb.cognition) blank out, draw a blank, forget - be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
Derived form noun block₇
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

14.  block(v = verb.change) - shape by using a block; "Block a hat"; "block a garment"
is one way to form, shape
Derived form noun block₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

15.  block(v = verb.change) - shape into a block or blocks; "block the graphs so one can see the results clearly"
is one way to form, shape
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

16.  block(v = verb.change) freeze, immobilise, immobilize - prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
is one way to keep back, withhold
Antonym: unblock
Sample sentences: They block the money

1.  A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. [1913 Webster]
"Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning." [1913 Webster]
"All her labor was but as a block
Left in the quarry." [1913 Webster]

2.  The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. [1913 Webster]
"Noble heads which have been brought to the block." [1913 Webster]

3.  The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. [1913 Webster]
"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block." [1913 Webster]

4.  A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. [1913 Webster]

5.  A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. [1913 Webster]
"The new city was laid out in rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street." [1913 Webster]

6.  A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. [1913 Webster]

7.  The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. [1913 Webster]

8.  Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; -- also called blockage; as, a block in the way; a block in an artery; a block in a nerve; a block in a biochemical pathway. [1913 Webster]

9.  A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. [1913 Webster]

10.  A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. [1913 Webster]

11.  A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [1913 Webster]
"What a block art thou !" [1913 Webster]

12.  A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. [1913 Webster]

13.  In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

14.  The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

15.  a number of individual items sold as a unit; as, a block of airline ticketes; a block of hotel rooms; a block of stock. [PJC]

16.  the length of one side of a city block{5}, traversed along any side; as, to walk three blocks ahead and turn left at the corner. [PJC]

17.  a halt in a mental process, especially one due to stress, memory lapse, confusion, etc.; as, a writer's block; to have a block in remembering a name. [PJC]

18.  a quantity of binary-encoded information transferred, or stored, as a unit to, from, or on a data storage device; as, to divide a disk into 512-byte blocks. [PJC]

19.  a number of locations in a random-access memory allocated to storage of specific data; as, to allocate a block of 1024 bytes for the stack. [PJC]

1.  To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance. [1913 Webster]
"With moles . . . would block the port." [1913 Webster]
"A city . . . besieged and blocked about." [1913 Webster]

2.  To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. [1913 Webster]

3.  To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. [1913 Webster]

4.  to cause (any activity) to halt by creating an obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a biochemical reaction with a drug. [PJC]

block, n., v., & adj.
--n.
1 a solid hewn or unhewn piece of hard material, esp. of rock, stone, or wood (block of ice).
2 a flat-topped block used as a base for chopping, beheading, standing something on, hammering on, or for mounting a horse from.
3 a a large building, esp. when subdivided (block of flats). b a compact mass of buildings bounded by (usu. four) streets.
4 an obstruction; anything preventing progress or normal working (a block in the pipe).
5 a chock for stopping the motion of a wheel etc.
6 a pulley or system of pulleys mounted in a case.
7 (in pl.) any of a set of solid cubes etc., used as a child's toy.
8 Printing a piece of wood or metal engraved for printing on paper or fabric.
9 a head-shaped mould used for shaping hats or wigs.
10 sl. the head (knock his block off).
11 US a the area between streets in a town or suburb. b the length of such an area, esp. as a measure of distance (lives three blocks away).
12 a stolid, unimaginative, or hard-hearted person.
13 a large quantity or allocation of things treated as a unit, esp. shares, seats in a theatre, etc.
14 a set of sheets of paper used for writing, or esp. drawing, glued along one edge.
15 Cricket a spot on which a batsman blocks the ball before the wicket, and rests the bat before playing.
16 Athletics = starting-block.
17 Amer. Football a blocking action.
18 Austral. a a tract of land offered to an individual settler by a government. b a large area of land.
--v.tr.
1 a (often foll. by up) obstruct (a passage etc.) (the road was blocked; you are blocking my view). b put obstacles in the way of (progress etc.).
2 restrict the use or conversion of (currency or any other asset).
3 use a block for making (a hat, wig, etc.).
4 emboss or impress a design on (a book cover).
5 Cricket stop (a ball) with a bat defensively.
6 Amer. Football intercept (an opponent) with one's body.
--attrib.adj. treating (many similar things) as one unit (block booking).

Idiom:
block and tackle a system of pulleys and ropes, esp. for lifting. block capitals (or letters) letters printed without serifs, or written with each letter separate and in capitals. block diagram a diagram showing the general arrangement of parts of an apparatus. block in
1 sketch roughly; plan.
2 confine. block mountain Geol. a mountain formed by natural faults.
block out
1 a shut out (light, noise, etc.). b exclude from memory, as being too painful.
2 sketch roughly; plan. block-ship Naut. a ship used to block a channel. block system a system by which no railway train may enter a section that is not clear. block tin refined tin cast in ingots.
block up
1 confine; shut (a person etc.) in.
2 infill (a window, doorway, etc.) with bricks etc. block vote a vote proportional in power to the number of people a delegate represents. mental (or psychological) block a particular mental inability due to subconscious emotional factors. on the block US being auctioned. put the blocks on prevent from proceeding.

Derivative:
blocker n.

Etymology:
ME f. OF bloc, bloquer f. MDu. blok, of unkn. orig.

N  hindrance, prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage, embolus, embolism, infarct, interruption, interception, interclusion, hindrance, impedition, retardment, retardation, embarrassment, oppilation, coarctation, stricture, restriction, restraint, inhibition, blockade, interference, interposition, obtrusion, discouragement, discountenance, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag, check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil, bar, stile, barrier, turnstile, turnpike, gate, portcullis, beaver dam, trocha, barricade, wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne, bulkhead, block, buffer, stopper, boom, dam, weir, burrock, drawback, objection, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, lion in the path, snag, snags and sawyers, encumbrance, incumbrance, clog, skid, shoe, spoke, drag, drag chain, drag weight, stay, stop, preventive, prophylactic, load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta, dead weight, lumber, pack, nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea, remora, difficulty, insuperable, obstacle, estoppel, ill wind, head wind, trammel, tether, hold back, counterpoise, damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, party pooper, party crasher, interloper, trail of a red herring, opponent, hindering, obstructive, obstruent, impeditive, impedient, intercipient, prophylactic, impedimentary, in the way of, unfavorable, onerous, burdensome, cumbrous, cumbersome, obtrusive, hindered, windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden, hard pressed, unassisted &c (assist), single-handed, alone, deserted, occurrent nubes.

VB  hinder, impede, filibuster, impedite, embarrass, keep off, stave off, ward off, obviate, avert, antevert, turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud, retard, slacken, check, let, counteract, countercheck, preclude, debar, foreclose, estop, inhibit, shackle, restrict, obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock, block, block up, choke off, belay, barricade, block the way, bar the way, stop the way, forelay, dam up, put on the brake, scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel, put a stop to, traverse, contravene, interrupt, intercept, oppose, hedge in, hedge round, cut off, inerclude, interpose, interfere, intermeddle, cramp, hamper, clog, clog the wheels, cumber, encumber, incumber, handicap, choke, saddle with, load with, overload, lay, lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience, incommode, discommode, discompose, hustle, corner, drive into a corner, run foul of, fall foul of, cross the path of, break in upon, thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil, faze, feaze, feeze, baffle, snub, override, circumvent, defeat, spike guns, spoil, mar, clip the wings of, cripple, put an extinguisher on, damp, dishearten, discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport, lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on, cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine, be in the way of, stand in the way of, act as a drag, hang like a millstone round one's neck.

N  scourge, rod, cane, stick, ratan, rattan, birch, birch rod, azote, blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok, rod in pickle, switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon, whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout, cat, cat o'nine tails, rope's end, pillory, stocks, whipping post, cucking stool, ducking stool, brank, trebuchet, trebuket, triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel, chinese water torture, treadmill, crank, galleys, scaffold, block, ax, guillotine, stake, cross, gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring, death chair, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, mecate, house of correction, goaler, jailer, executioner, electrocutioner, lyncher, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.

VB  counteract, run counter, clash, cross, interfere with, conflict with, contravene, jostle, go against, run against, beat against, militate against, stultify, antagonize, block, oppose, traverse, withstand, hinder, repress, react, undo, neutralize, counterpoise, overpoise.

N  size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

N  support, ground, foundation, base, basis, terra firma, bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib, point d'appui, pou sto, purchase footing, hold, locus standi, landing place, landing stage, stage, platform, block, rest, resting place, groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention, floor, supporter, aid, prop, stand, anvil, fulciment, cue rest, jigger, monkey, stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage, sleeper, stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger, ratlings, staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle, bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick, post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster, pediment, pedicle, pedestal, plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle, buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment, baluster, banister, stanchion, balustrade, headstone, upright, door post, jamb, door jamb, frame, framework, scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom, rung, round, step, sill, angle rafter, hip rafter, cantilever, modillion, crown post, king post, vertebra, columella, backbone, keystone, axle, axletree, axis, arch, mainstay, trunnion, pivot, rowlock, peg, tiebeam, thole pin, board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack, mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf, slab, console, counter, dresser, flange, corbel, table, trestle, shoulder, perch, horse, easel, desk, clotheshorse, hatrack, retable, teapoy, seat, throne, dais, divan, musnud, chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall, arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair, couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench, aparejo, faldstool, horn, long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair, lamba chauki, lamba kursi, saddle, pannel, pillion, side saddle, pack saddle, pommel, bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead, four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang, bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse, pillow, bolster, mat, rug, cushion, footstool, hassock, tabouret, tripod, monopod, Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules, supporting, supported, fundamental, dorsigerous, astride on, straddle.

N  density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

N  hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

N  fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.

atrioventricular block, auction block, bad block, belgian block, block anaesthesia, block and tackle, block anesthesia, block book, block capital, block chain, block diagram, block grant, block letter, block of metal, block off, block out, block plane, block signal, block system, block tin, block up, block vote, breeze block, building block, bullock block, butcher block, caudal block, cautionary block, chip off the old block, chopping block, cinder block, city block, clinker block, cylinder block, damper block, engine block, heart block, line block, measuring block, mental block, nerve block anaesthesia, nerve block anesthesia, office block, paracervical block, pillow block, plumber block, psychological block, pudendal block, saddle block anaesthesia, saddle block anesthesia, scribbling block, scribing block, sketch block, snatch block, square block, starting block, stumbling block, swage block, tower block, trap block, wood block, writer's block