Block and tackle

Definition

block /blɒk/ n ၁။ (က) [C] သစ္၊ ေက်ာက္၊ သတၱဳစသည္ အတံုးႀကီး။ a block of concrete/granite/marble. ❍ piece (ခ) [C] (ထင္းခြဲရာ၊ ထုႏွက္ရာ) ေအာက္ခံတံုး။ a chopping-block ❍ a butcher's block. (ဂ) the block [sing] (ေရွး) ရာဇဝတ္သားလည္ျဖတ္ရာတံုး။ go/ be sent to the block. ၂။ [C] ကေလးကစားစရာ သစ္သား၊ ပလတ္စတစ္တံုး။ a set of (building) blocks. ၃။ [C] ( esp Brit ) သီးျခားအခန္းမ်ား၊ အထပ္မ်ား၊ ႐ံုးမ်ား ပါဝင္သည့္ အေဆာက္အအံုႀကီး။ blocks of flats ❍ an office block ❍ a tower block (ie a tall block of flats) ❍ a prison block. ၄။ [C] (က) ေလးဖက္ေလးတန္ လမ္းျဖင့္ နယ္သတ္ထားေသာ အေဆာက္အအံုအကြက္။ ဘေလာက္။ go for a walk around the block. (ခ) ( esp US ) ယင္း၏ တစ္လ်ားစာ အကြာအေဝး။ He lives three blocks away from here. ၅။ [C] အအုပ္၊ အကြက္၊ အစု စသည္။ a block of theatre seats ❍ a block of shares (ie in a business) ❍ a block booking (ie the reserving at one time of a large number of seats). ၆။ [C] စာေရးရန္၊ ပံုဆြဲရန္ စကၠဴအုပ္။ ၇။ [C] (ပံုႏိွပ္) ဘေလာက္တံုး။ ၈။ [C usu sing ] အပိတ္အဆို႔။ အတားအဆီး။ a block in the pipe/gutter/drain ❍ a road block ❍ ( fig ) The government's stubborn attitude was a block to further talks. ❍ I've got writer's block (ie I cannot think of anything to write). ❍ My son's always had a mental block about team games. အသင္းလိုက္ ကစားနည္းမ်ဳိးဆိုတာနဲ႔ သားက တြင္တြင္ ျငင္းေတာ့တာပဲ။ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up) (သြားလာစီးဆင္းမႈ) ပိတ္သည္၊ ဆို႔သည္။ a drain blocked (up) by mud/dead leaves ❍ My nose is blocked (up) (eg because of a heavy cold). ❍ Heavy snow is blocking all roads into Scotland. ❍ A large crowd blocked the corridors and exits. ❍ There's a big tree blocking our view. ❍ They'd blocked up the windows with bricks. (ခ) ဟန္႔တားသည္။ ပိတ္ဆို႔သည္။ block an opponent's move (eg in a game of CHESS) ❍ The accident blocked downtown traffic. ❍ Progress in the talks was blocked by the government's intransigence. ၂။ ( techn ) (ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခု၏) ေငြေၾကးသံုးစြဲမႈ၊ ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ၊ ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈ၊ ေရာင္းဝယ္မႈတို႔ကို ကန္႔သတ္သည္၊ ပိတ္ပင္တားဆီး သည္။ blocked sterling. ၃။ (ခရစ္ကက္) ေဘာလံုးကို တအား မ႐ိုက္ဘဲဘက္တံျဖင့္အရိွန္သတ္၍ ရပ္ေစသည္။ ❏ blockage /'blɒkÇdʒ/ n (က) ပိတ္ဆို႔ေနေသာ အရာ။ တစ္ဆို႔ေနေသာအရာ။ a blockage in an artery/a drainpipe/a road. (ခ) ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ။ တစ္ဆို႔မႈ။ ❏ block and tackle n စက္သီးႏွင့္ႀကိဳး။ ❏ block sth in/out [ PHRV ] (ေကာက္ေၾကာင္း၊ ပံုၾကမ္း) အျမန္ေရးဆြဲသည္။ block in the plan of a house. ❏ block letter (also block capital ) n လံုးခ်င္း ပံုႏိွပ္ စာလံုးႀကီး။ fill in a form in block letters. ❏ block sth off [ PHRV ] အခိုင္အခံ့ ပိုင္းျခားကာဆီး ပိတ္ဆို႔ သည္။ Police blocked off the street after the explosion. ❏ block sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ အလင္း၊ အသံစသည္ မဝင္ရေအာင္ အလံုပိတ္သည္။ ၂။ မစဥ္းစားဘဲထားသည္။ ေမ့ထားသည္။ block out painful memories. ❏ block vote (also card vote ) n မဲေပးသူက ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည့္ လူဦးေရပမာဏ အခ်ဳိးအစားအရ မဲတင္းေပးေသာ မဲဆႏၵစနစ္။ See also STUMBLING-BLOCK

Examples

1. There’s a flat available in the block where I live.
2. An apartment/office/high-rise block
3. [block of flats] : The whole block of flats was destroyed.
4. The main block of the hotel dates back to 1650.
5. The prison’s administration block overlooks the exercise yard.
6. I was early for the meeting
7. so I walked around the block a couple of times.
8. The school was only a few blocks from where she lived.
9. The baby was playing with wooden blocks.
10. [block of] : It’s amazing to think that this huge statue was carved from a single block of marble.
11. [block of] : The company buys blocks of seats from airlines
12. then sells them to the public.
13. [block of] : You can move blocks of text on-screen using the mouse.
14. [block of] : The hard disk contains a block of data known as the ‘boot’ section.
15. We need to find a two-hour block when we are all free for this seminar.
16. The issue of holiday pay was the major block in reaching an agreement.
17. I had a sudden block and couldn’t remember his name.
18. There must be a block in the pipeline.