Blocking vs Preventing - What's the difference?
blocking | preventing |
The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
(theater) The precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera (originally planned using miniature blocks).
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
As verbs the difference between blocking and preventing
is that blocking is present participle of lang=en while preventing is present participle of lang=en.As a noun blocking
is the act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.blocking
English
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(en noun)- Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia.