Prevent vs Reblock - What's the difference?
prevent | reblock |
To stop; to keep (from happening).
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* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete) To come before; to precede.
* Bible, 1 Thess. iv. 15
* Book of Common Prayer
* Prior
(obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
(obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
* Alexander Pope
To block, prevent, or hamper again.
* 2010 , Syed Ali, Dubai: gilded cage (page 58)
To remould (a hat) into its original shape.
* 1951 , Bernice Gertrude Chambers, Color and design: fashion in men's and women's clothing and home furnishings
In lang=en terms the difference between prevent and reblock
is that prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening) while reblock is to remould (a hat) into its original shape.As verbs the difference between prevent and reblock
is that prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening) while reblock is to block, prevent, or hamper again.prevent
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* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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- ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
- We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
- We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
- Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- their ready guilt preventing thy commands
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* preventative * prevention * preventivereblock
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Verb
(en verb)- It is not just bad news about Dubai that gets blocked from the Internet; a whole range of other social networking sites have been blocked, unblocked and reblocked .
- Reputable dry cleaners can clean and reblock a hat.