Black vs Block - What's the difference?
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(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
Without light.
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
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(chiefly, historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
* 1655 , Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
* 1866 , The Contemporary Review , London: A. Strahan, page 338.
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (qualifier, often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
(Germany, politics) Related to the .
(secrecy) Relating to a initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
* Shakespeare
A black dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
* 1625 , Francis Bacon, "Of Death", Essays :
(sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
* 2004 , Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (page 108)
The black ball.
(baseball) The edge of home plate
(British) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(informal) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
In chess and similar games, the person playing with the black set of pieces.
Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
* Sir K. Digby
(obsolete) A stain; a spot.
* Rowley
To make black, to blacken.
* 1859 , Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=506735625&tag=Optic,+Oliver:+Poor+and+proud;+or,+The+fortunes+of+Katy+Redburn,+a+story+for+young+folks,+1859&query=+black+your&id=OptPoor]
* 1911 , Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=302756157&tag=Ferber,+Edna:+Buttered+Side+Down,+1911&query=+black+your&id=FerButt]
* 1922 , John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00645065&id=vw6G-rbudVUC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=%22black+his+eye%22&as_brr=1]
To apply blacking to something.
* 1853 , Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=600775507&tag=Stowe,+Harriet+Beecher:+The+Key+to+Uncle+Tom's+Cabin,+1853&query=+black+his&id=StoKeyu]
* 1861 , George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=160888866&tag=EAF538&query=+black+your&id=eaf538]
* 1911 , Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=91865750&tag=Beerbohm,+Max,+Sir,+1872-1956:+Zuleika+Dobson,+1911&query=+black+your&id=BeeZule]
(British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
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A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
A residential building consisting of flats.
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, chapter=Foreword The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
(slang) The human head.
A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
* Shakespeare
A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
(computing) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
(rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.
(chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
(sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
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(cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
(volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
A section of split logs used as fuel.
(UK) Solitary confinement.
A cellblock.
(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
(obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
* Shakespeare
A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
(sports) To impede an opponent.
(theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
(cricket) To hit with a block.
(cricket) To play a block shot.
To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
(computing) To wait.
To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
In obsolete terms the difference between black and block
is that black is a stain; a spot while block is a blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.As nouns the difference between black and block
is that black is the colour/color perceived in the absence of light while block is a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.As verbs the difference between black and block
is that black is to make black, to blacken while block is to fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.As an adjective black
is absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.As a proper noun Black
is {{surname|from=nicknames}.black
English
(wikipedia black)Adjective
(er)citation
- black''' drinking fountain; '''black hospital
- ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
- He shot her a black look.
- Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
- Jim drinks his coffee black , but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
- The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
- After the election, the parties united in a black -yellow alliance.
- 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
Synonyms
* (dark and colourless) dark * (without light) dark, gloomy, pitch-blackAntonyms
* (dark and colourless) white, nonblack, unblack * (without light) bright, illuminated, litNoun
(en noun)black colour:
- Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
- Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks , and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
- Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks , accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
- At this point black makes a disastrous move.
- the black or sight of the eye
- defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
Synonyms
* (colour or absence of light) ** blackness * (person) ** (standard) African American (in the US), Afro-American (in the US), person of color (US) or person of colour (UK), person of African descentAntonyms
* whiteVerb
(en verb)- "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
- "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
- Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
- I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
- ...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
- But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
- Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
Synonyms
* (make black) blacken, darken, swarten * (boycott) blackball, blacklistDerived terms
* black alder * blackamoor * black-and-blue * black-and-tan * black and white * black arts * black bag job * blackball * black bean * black bear * black belt * blackberry * black bile * blackboard * black body * black book * black bottom * black bottom pie * black box * black bread * black bread mold * black bun * blackbutt * blackcap * black cherry * black coffee * black cohosh * black comedy * black cow * blackcurrant * blackdamp * Black Death * black diamond * black dwarf * black economy * blacken * black-eyed * black-eyed bean * black-eyed pea * black-eyed Susan * black-faced * blackfish * black flag * blackfly * Black Forest * Black Forest cake, Black Forest gateau * black frost * black game * blackguard * black gum * blackhead * black-hearted * black hole * black humor, black humour * black ice * blackjack * black knight * black-lead * blackleg * black letter * black light * black list * black-list * blackly * black lung * blackmail * black magic * black man * Black Maria * black mark * black market * black mass * black measles * black money * black mustard * blackness * black nightshade * black out * blackout * Black Panther * black pepper * blackpoll * black powder * Black Power * black propaganda * black pudding * black racer * black raspberry * Black Rod * black rot * Black Sea * black shale * black sheep * black-sick * black skimmer * blacksmith * black spot * black stork * blackstrap * black stump * black swan * black tea * blackthorn * black tie * blacktop * Black Tuesday * black up * black velvet * Black Virgin * black walnut * blackwater * black widow * blackwood * blackwork * carbon black * coal black * ivory black * Large Black * long black * nonblack * penny black * pitch-black * platinum black * short black * slate black * television blackSee also
* monochrome * *Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----block
English
(wikipedia block)Noun
(en noun)- You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
- A block of ice.
- A block of stone.
- Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
- I'm going for a walk around the block .
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- A block of flats.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks''' east and one short '''block north.
- I'll knock your block off.
- Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block , I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.
- He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block .
- A block of 100 tickets.
- There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
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- What a block art thou!
Synonyms
* See also * city blockDerived terms
; cuboid * * * * ; group of buildings * * * * * ; computing * ; distance * ; cutting base * * ; prevent passage * * * * * * ; rigging * * ; human head * * * ; volleyball * * * ; miscellaneous * * * * *Synonyms
* (volleyball) stuff, roof, wallVerb
(en verb)- The pipe is blocked .
- You're blocking the road – I can't get through.
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- He blocked the basketball player's shot.
- The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
- It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
- I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
- When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
- I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.