Noun

(en noun)

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.

Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

A stage of a journey, race etc.

After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.}}

One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

the legs of a chair or table

(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist

(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Noun

(en noun)

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

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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.

A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

I'm going for a walk around the block .

A residential building consisting of flats.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block' of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the ' block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

A block of flats.

The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

The place you are looking for is two long blocks''' east and one short '''block north.

(slang) The human head.

I'll knock your block off.

A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,

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.

A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

* Shakespeare

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block .

A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.

A block of 100 tickets.

(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).

There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.

(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 citation , page= , passage=The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an important block with Jermain Defoe poised to strike. }}

(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

What a block art thou!

A section of a railroad where the block system is used.