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  • 11block — /blɒk / (say blok) noun 1. a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane or approximately plane faces. 2. a child s building brick. 3. a mould or piece on which something is shaped or kept in shape, as a hat block. 4. one of… …

  • 12block — 1 noun (C) 1 SOLID MASS a solid mass of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides (+ of): a block of ice 2 STREET/STREETS a) AmE the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next: It s three blocks to the …

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  • 13block — n., v., & adj. n. 1 a solid hewn or unhewn piece of hard material, esp. of rock, stone, or wood (block of ice). 2 a flat topped block used as a base for chopping, beheading, standing something on, hammering on, or for mounting a horse from. 3 a a …

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  • 14block — 01. The road was [blocked] by a tree that had fallen over. 02. The little boy tried to escape, but the bully [blocked] his path. 03. She lives in an apartment [block] just down the street. 04. A new [block] of flats has been built on the… …

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  • 15block*/*/ — [blɒk] noun [C] I 1) a large building with a lot of different levels an apartment/office block[/ex] The whole block of flats was destroyed.[/ex] 2) a solid piece of wood, stone, ice etc with straight sides a block of marble[/ex] 3) an amount of… …

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  • 16block — ► NOUN 1) a large solid piece of material with flat surfaces on each side. 2) chiefly Brit. a large single building subdivided into separate flats or offices. 3) a group of buildings bounded by four streets. 4) a large quantity of things regarded …

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  • 17Tower block — High rise redirects here. For other uses, see High Rise (disambiguation). A high rise residential apartment building in Hong Kong …

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  • 18tower block — noun tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments tower block is the British term for high rise • Syn: ↑high rise • Hypernyms: ↑tower * * * noun Britain : a tall building (as a high rise apartment building) …

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  • 19Bogany Flats — was a multi storey block of flats in Castlemilk, Glasgow. The flats were built in 1966 by George Wimpey Ltd, the building contained 114 flats and was known by locals, tongue in cheek, as The Hilton . They also tell of a close community within the …

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  • 20apartment block — UK US noun [countable] [singular apartment block plural apartment blocks] a block of flats Thesaurus: buildings where people live or stayhyponym * * * aˈpartmen …

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