block vs pass

block

noun
  • An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck). 

  • A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A cellblock. 

  • The popping crease. 

  • A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit. 

  • A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message. 

  • A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster). 

  • Solitary confinement. 

  • A section of split logs used as fuel. 

  • A blockhole. 

  • A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions. 

  • Something that prevents something from passing. 

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

  • A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape. 

  • 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 perch on which a bird of prey is kept. 

  • A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court. 

  • A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. 

  • A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. 

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

  • A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets. 

  • The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. 

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

  • The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern. 

  • The human head. 

  • A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground. 

  • A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof. 

  • Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes. 

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

  • A roughly cuboid building. 

  • A section of a railroad where the block system is used. 

verb
  • To hit with a block. 

  • To wait for some condition to become true. 

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

  • To prevent (something or someone) from passing. 

  • To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar. 

  • To play a block shot. 

  • To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape. 

  • To shape or sketch out roughly. 

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

  • To impede (an opponent or opponent's play). 

  • To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something). 

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

pass

noun
  • The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another. 

  • A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything. 

  • Success in an examination or similar test. 

  • Permission or license to pass, or to go and come. 

  • An intentional walk. 

  • The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff. 

  • A sexual advance. 

  • An attempt. 

  • A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process. 

  • A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission 

  • A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool. 

  • A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it. 

  • A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river. 

  • The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre. 

  • The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse. 

  • An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford. 

  • A password (especially one for a restricted-access website). 

  • A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. 

  • A thrust; a sally of wit. 

  • An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass". 

verb
  • To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another. 

  • To depart, to cease, to come to an end. 

  • To spend. 

  • To go from one person to another. 

  • To put through a sieve. 

  • To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do". 

  • To reject; to pass up. 

  • To happen. 

  • In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn. 

  • To proceed without hindrance or opposition. 

  • To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 

  • To utter; to pronounce; to pledge. 

  • To die. 

  • To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance. 

  • In euchre, to decline to make the trump. 

  • To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. 

  • To put in circulation; to give currency to. 

  • To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. 

  • To decline something that is offered or available. 

  • To move or be moved from one place to another. 

  • To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression). 

  • To continue. 

  • To elapse, to be spent. 

  • To progress from one state to another; to advance. 

  • To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance. 

  • To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just. 

  • To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate. 

  • To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. 

  • To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. 

  • To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes. 

  • To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa. 

  • To make a lunge or swipe. 

  • To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate. 

  • To decline or not attempt to answer a question. 

  • To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body). 

  • To make a judgment on or upon a person or case. 

  • To achieve a successful outcome from. 

  • To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past. 

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