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1Block booking — is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice among Hollywood s major studios from the turn of the 1930s through the late 1940s, when it was outlawed by a Supreme Court decision. Under… …
2Block Party (album) — Block Party Studio album by Missy Elliott Released TBA …
3block — [bläk] n. [ME blokke < OFr bloc & MDu block < IE * bhlugo < base * bhel , a thick plank, beam > BALK, Gr phalanx, L fulcrum] 1. any large, solid piece of wood, stone, or metal, often with flat surfaces 2. a blocklike stand or platform …
4Block Truncation Coding — Block Truncation Coding, or BTC, is a type of lossy image compression technique for greyscale images. It divides the original images into blocks and then uses a quantiser to reduce the number of grey levels in each block whilst maintaining the… …
5BLOCK, HERBERT LAWRENCE — (Herblock; 1909–2001), U.S. editorial cartoonist. Born in Chicago, Block started to draw when he was quite young and won a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute at 12. His critical eye and rapier pen made him one of the leading journalists of… …
6block exemption — See competition policy. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001. block exemption …
7Block Party (Vereinigte Staaten) — Block Party nennt man in den USA eine große Feier, bei der sich viele Einwohner eines einzelnen Stadtviertels versammeln, um einem wichtigen Ereignis beizuwohnen. Oftmals wird mit Musik und Tanz gefeiert. Block Partys wurden in den USA während… …
8block grant — ➔ grant1 * * * block grant UK US noun [C] ECONOMICS, FINANCE ► an amount of money given by a government to particular areas of a country to spend on public services such as houses, roads, etc.: »Cuts in federal block grant funding have made it… …
9block|house — «BLOK HOWS», noun. 1. a small fort or building with loopholes to shoot from. Blockhouses were made with hewn timbers, often with a projecting upper story. 2. a somewhat similar, smaller structure made of reinforced concrete, used in modern… …
10BLOCK, PAUL — (1877–1941), U.S. publisher of an early newspaper chain. Born in Elmira, N.Y., Block made his first venture into newspaper ownership by purchasing the Newark Star Eagle in 1908. He bought the Evening Sun and Morning Post (both of Pittsburgh) in… …
