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  • 1block — [[t]blɒ̱k[/t]] ♦♦ blocks, blocking, blocked 1) N COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them. ...blocks of council flats. ...a white painted apartment block. 2) N COUNT A block in a town is an… …

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  • 2block — block1 [ blak ] noun count *** ▸ 1 piece of wood/stone etc. ▸ 2 distance along street ▸ 3 amount/quantity of something ▸ 4 period of time ▸ 5 (large) building ▸ 6 at start of race ▸ 7 something that stops movement ▸ 8 something that stops action… …

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  • 3block — I UK [blɒk] / US [blɑk] noun [countable] Word forms block : singular block plural blocks *** 1) a) a large building with a lot of different levels There s a flat available in the block where I live. an apartment/office/high rise block block of… …

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  • 4block — 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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  • 5block booking — /blɒk bυkɪŋ/ noun booking of several seats or rooms at the same time ● The company has a block booking for twenty seats on the plane or for ten rooms at the hotel …

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  • 6Southern Kanto proportional representation block — The Southern Kantō proportional representation block (Hirei [daihyō] Minami Kantō burokku (比例[代表]南関東ブロック?)) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks , multi member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of… …

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  • 7Chevrolet Big-Block engine — The Chevrolet big block is a series of large displacement V8 engines that were developed in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s. As American automobiles grew in size and weight following the Second World War the engines powering them had to keep… …

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  • 8Long block — is an automotive term describing an engine sub assembly consisting of the following: * Short block. The long block is always a superset of the corresponding short block. * Cylinder head. A complete new or remanufactured cylinder head assembly is… …

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  • 9Anti H-Block — was the political label used by candidates standing in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in support of the 1981 hunger strike. The leader of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands was nominated in the April 1981 by election in Fermanagh… …

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  • 10France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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