Moments later, police caught up with two teens in an alley about two blocks away.
Two blocks to the left was the route of the marathon, which had been resumed the previous Sunday.
But how much patience are they going to have with a McConnell who blocks a tax cut for them?
Atallah lives three blocks away; his house shook with the impact.
The question is whether society would fall apart if some writers wrote 12 blocks while others wrote twelve blocks.
The blocks are inked with rollers as in letter-press printing.
blocks of slate are loosened by blasting, and are taken to the splitting-shed.
Something was wanted from the drug store, not two blocks away, and the Wild Rose went in quest of it.
Two blocks from the place the black figure stopped and demanded her money.
Fig. 1388 is a view of one of the blocks employed in the construction of the wheel, drawn to full size.
children's wooden building toys, 1821, from block (n.).
"solid piece," c.1300, from Old French bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via Middle Dutch bloc "trunk of a tree" or Old High German bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk).
Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from 1630s. Extended sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings; slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869.
BLOCK. A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very useful one. [Bartlett]
block (blŏk)
n.
Interruption, especially obstruction, of a normal physiological function.
Interruption, complete or partial, permanent or temporary, of the passage of a nervous impulse.
Atrioventricular block.
Sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observable cause, sometimes considered a consequence of repression.
adjective
Stupid (1980s+ Students)
noun
The head (1630s+)
Related Terms
gapers' block, knock someone's block off, new kid on the block
