Stifle vs Block - What's the difference?
stifle | block |
A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
(veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
To interrupt or cut off.
To repress, keep in or hold back.
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, title= To smother or suffocate.
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
To feel smothered etc.
To die of suffocation.
To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
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.
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, 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).
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(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.
As nouns the difference between stifle and block
is that stifle is boots while block is bloc.stifle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stifl)- I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Norwich 3-3 Blackburn, passage=In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City.}}
- Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
- I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Synonyms
* (to die of suffocation) See also * (To repress or hold back) hinder, restrain, suppress, throttleblock
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 .
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 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.
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. }}
- 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.