Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“blocks” is a form of

block

UK /blɒk/ · US /blɑk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms blocks blocking blocked blocke

  1. noun A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. “a block of ice; a block of stone”
  2. noun A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading. “Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.”
  3. noun A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
  4. noun A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
  5. noun (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A section of split logs used as fuel.
  8. noun A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape. “a block of 100 tickets”
  9. verb (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass. “The pipe was blocked by leaves.”
  10. verb (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing. “A broken-down car is blocking the traffic.”
  11. verb (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something). “His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.”
  12. verb (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play). “He blocked the basketball player’s shot.”
  13. verb (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film). “It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.”
  14. verb (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
  15. verb (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
  16. verb (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar. “I tried to send you a message, but you’ve blocked me!”
  17. proper noun A surname.
  18. proper noun A surname from German
  19. proper noun A surname from Dutch
  20. proper noun An English surname

Synonyms

pulley block city block barrier blockage obstruction stuff roof wall nuclear block bean beaner belfry bonce brainbox brain bucket calabash dome head loaf lolly cube mental block pulley pulley-block engine block cylinder block closure occlusion stop stoppage

Antonyms

unblock

Etymology

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.

* A Germanic surname (German, Dutch and English), from German Block and Dutch blok respectively. As an English surname from the same cognate, block.
* As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Bloch. Also see Vlach.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither.
  2. noun The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
  3. verb 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.
  4. verb 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.

Etymology [OE. blok; cf. F. bloc (fr. OHG.), D. & Dan. blok, Sw. & G. block, OHG. bloch. There is also an OHG. bloch, biloh; bi by + the same root as that of E. lock. Cf. Block, v. t., Blockade, and see Lock.]

Etymology [Cf. F. bloquer, fr. bloc block. See Block, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “block”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “block” (best matches first).