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Look up Block, Blocks, block, blocked, or blocks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Block or blocked may refer to: Block programming, the result of a
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Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, printing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing
and blocks. Blockly includes a set of visual blocks for common operations, and can be customized by adding more blocks. New blocks require a block definition
Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of mainland Rhode Island
A block trade is a high-volume transaction in a security that is privately negotiated and executed outside of the open market for that security. Major
Writer's block is a non-medical condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a
Lia Block (born October 1, 2006) is an American racing driver who currently competes in the American Rally Association for Block House Racing driving a
Look up blocking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blocking may refer to: Blacklist (computing) Blocking (computing), holding up a task until an event
combustion engine, the engine block is the structure that contains the cylinders and other components. The engine block in an early automotive engine
BLOCK
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from Middle High German bloch, Middle Dutch blok ‘block of wood’, ‘stocks’. The surname probably originated as a nickname for a large, lumpish man, or perhaps as a nickname for a persistent lawbreaker who found himself often in the stocks.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who blocks, as in shoemaking and bookbinding, from Middle English blok ‘block’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized spelling of Bloch (see Vlach).Adriaen Coertsz Block was a Dutch-born merchant-explorer who traded along the CT coast and Long Island shortly after Hudson’s voyage to the region in 1609. Block Island, between the north fork of Long Island and RI, which he used as a base of operations, is named after him.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on a small plot of land, from Middle English plocke ‘small piece of ground’.Americanized spelling of German Ploch.Variant of German Block.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational and topographic name for someone who lived or worked in a forest (see Forrest).English : Norman French nickname or occupational name from Old French forcetier ‘cutter’, an agent noun from forcettes ‘scissors’.English : occupational name, by metathesis, from Old French fust(r)ier ‘blockmaker’ (a derivative of fustre ‘block of wood’).German (Förster) : occupational and topographic name for someone who lived and worked in a forest (see Forst).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Forst ‘forest’.
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English
English : nickname for a short, fat man, from Middle English, Old French tronchon ‘piece broken off’ (Late Latin truncio, genitive truncionis, from truncus ‘lopped’, ‘cut short’). It is just possible that the nickname also denoted someone who carried a staff or cudgel as a symbol of office, but this sense of the word is not attested in English before the 16th century.French : from Old French tronson ‘block of wood’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
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German (Blöcker)
German (Blöcker) : occupational name for a jailer (see Block 1).English : occupational name for a shoemaker or bookbinder (see Block); a person called Henry le Blocker is recorded in York in 1212. However, in some cases the English name is of German origin (see 1 above); the census of 1881 records, amongst others, a Herman Blocker and a John Blocker, both born in Germany.
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English
English : habitational name from Bloxham in Oxfordshire and Bloxholm in Lincolnshire, both of which are recorded in Domesday Book as Blochesham, from an unrecorded Old English byname Blocc (presumably referring to a large, ungainly fellow; compare Block 1) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : apparently a topographic name from Middle English furlong ‘length of a field’ (from Old English furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, such as Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly common in Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th century.Possibly an Americanized form of French Ferland.
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Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Pure
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Mythological, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
Beautiful as Moon; Wife of Moon
Boy/Male
Bengali, Indian
Successful
Boy/Male
Latin
West wind.
Male
English
Short form of English Theodore, THEO means "gift of God," and other names beginning with Theo-.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Light
Boy/Male
Tamil
Son of the Moon (Son of the Moon)
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
New
Male
English
 Short form of English Ackerley, ACKE means "oak meadow." Compare with another form of Acke.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Indonesian, Russian
Good
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n.
A vessel employed in blockading.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Blockade
v. t.
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
n.
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
a.
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
n.
The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Block
n.
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
n.
A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
imp. & p. p.
of Blockade
a.
Like a block; stupid.
n.
The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.
n.
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.
n.
One who blockades.
n.
To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
v. t.
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
n.
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.