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Definition of Blocking

1. Noun. The act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements.

Definition of Blocking

1. n. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

Definition of Blocking

1. Verb. (present participle of block) ¹

2. Noun. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction. ¹

3. Noun. (context: theater) The precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera (originally planned using miniature blocks). ¹

4. Noun. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blocking

1. block [v] - See also: block

Medical Definition of Blocking

1. 1. Obstructing; arresting of passage, conduction, or transmission. 2. In psychoanalysis, a sudden break in free association occurring when a painful subject or repressed complex is touched. 3. Sudden cessation of thoughts and speech, which may indicate the presence of a severe thought disorder or a psychosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blocking

Literary usage of Blocking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ftc Cigarette Test Method for Determining Tar, Nicotine & Carbon edited by Donald R. Shopland (1997)
"SMOKERS CAN GET Some points should be made about vent blocking and the HIGH YIELDS FROM ... blocking Salivary cotinine levels of 303 and 385 ng per mL, ..."

2. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"Fröhlich 7 employed it for blocking impulses in both warm and cold blooded animals, ... 1 For the tripolar method used for stimulation, not for blocking, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Three Cases of Hemiplegia, caused by the blocking-up of a Cerebral Artery. —Dr. RUBLE remarks that sudden hemiplegia, occurring in heart-disease, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1914)
"blocking THE SYMPATHETIC BY A METHOD OTHER THAN SPINAL ANESTHESIA TO PREVENT SHOCK IN THE COMBINED OPERATION FOR CANCER OF THE RECTUM OR RECTO-SIGMOIDAL ..."

5. Shooting by Thomas de Grey Walsingham, Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Gerald Lascelles, Archibald John Stuart-Wortley, Simon Fraser Lovat, Charles Lennox Kerr (1886)
"As the trigger is pulled, the front end / engages a connecting piece g, the front of which engages with the short arm of the blocking safety k (see figs. i ..."

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