The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
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.
An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
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.
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.).
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.