block
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 街区，木块，石块，块
- vt.
- 阻塞，封锁，使成块状
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (slang) The human head.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
动词 Verb
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
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释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- Misspelling of bloc.