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Pillow vs Blocky - What's the difference?

pillow | blocky |

As a noun pillow

is a soft cushion used to support the head in bed.

As a verb pillow

is to rest as on a pillow.

As an adjective blocky is

resembling a block in shape.

pillow

English

(wikipedia pillow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
  • (geology) A pillow lava.
  • (engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
  • (nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
  • A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

    • Derived terms

    * pillow-biter * pillow block * pillow case * pillow fight * pillowing * pillow lace * pillow lava * pillow sham * pillowy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rest as on a pillow.
  • * 1942': She had '''pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)

    • blocky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling a block in shape.
    • The oldest video games had crude, blocky graphics.