Block vs Blog - What's the difference?
block | blog |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, 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).
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=February 12
, author=Oliver Brett
, title=Sunderland 1–2 Tottenham
, work=BBC
(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.
(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order.
(blogging) To contribute to a blog.
(British, slang) To blag, to steal something; To acquire something illegally.
(dated, fandom slang, jocular)
* {{quote-book
, year = 1960 , year_published = 2006-07-19
, author = Rich Brown & Paul Stanbery
, title = The Golden Halls of Mirth
, url = http://efanzines.com/GoldenHalls/
, passage = The earliest form we know about composed before Rhysling was blinded, at some drinking bout, and the verses concerned what he would do at the SoLaCon I—if he could find enough blog , a mimeo, and a few willing femmefans.
}}
* {{quote-usenet
, year = 1994
, monthday = June 07
, author = David E Romm
, email =
, title = Re: To Ghost or Not To Ghost...
, id = 71443.1447-070694144409@dialup-3-152.gw.umn.edu
, group = rec.arts.sf.fandom
, url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/3nel8QI62Eg/3UR5JVN-I7AJ
}}
* {{quote-usenet
, year = 1995
, monthday = September 04
, author = Lindsay Crawford
, email =
, title = Re: Intersection
, id = 9509042250393785@emerald.com
, group = rec.arts.sf.fandom
, url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/W1tXZOtnmwA/vXf06yi6u_MJ
}}
As nouns the difference between block and blog
is that block is a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance while blog is a website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order.As verbs the difference between block and blog
is that block is to fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass while blog is to contribute to a blog.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.
blog
English
Etymology 1
Shortened form of weblog . The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined May 23, 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of the online magazine "Tasty Bits from the Technology Front" which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz who put the following on his web site'>citationNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blahg * blogebrity * blogette * bloggable * blogger * blogoholic * blogophile * blogorrhea * blogosphere * blogworthy * microblog * photoblog * splog * unblogged * vlogVerb
(blogg)Etymology 2
Verb
(blogg)Etymology 3
Noun
(-)- The closest we came to that was not serving alcohol in the consuite one year. That was a significant success for it's main purpose. We actually came up with a definition of a fan, albeit a partial one phrased in the negative: Anyone who comes to Minicon just because there's free beer in the consuite is not a fan. That year there was more alcohol and more kinds* of alcohol than at any Minicon before or since; all the real fans who liked to drink brought their own and shared. The policy mainly discouraged the jerks who liked to hang out at the consuite and hit on the women. We did that for one year and happily went back to serving beer and blog .
- I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog , thank you.