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.
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.).
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".
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.