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Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Sudden fatigue as a result of glycogen depletion from not having taken in enough nutrition.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

Example: I heard a knock on my door.

Definition: A sharp impact.

Example: He took a knock on the head.

Definition: Criticism.

Definition: Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.

Definition: A batsman's innings.

Example: He played a slow but sure knock of 35.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

Definition: To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.

Example: Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

Definition: To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.

Definition: To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

Definition: To bump or impact.

Example: I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar.

Definition: To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

Example: Knock on the door and find out if they’re home.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

Example: a block of ice

Definition: A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

Example: Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.

Definition: A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

Example: I'm going for a walk around the block.

Definition: A residential building consisting of flats.

Example: a block of flats

Definition: The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

Example: The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.

Definition: Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.

Definition: The human head.

Example: I'll knock your block off!

Definition: A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

Definition: A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

Definition: A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.

Example: a block of 100 tickets

Definition: A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).

Definition: A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

Definition: A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.

Definition: Something that prevents something from passing.

Example: There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.

Definition: An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).

Definition: A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.

Definition: A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.

Definition: A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.

Definition: A section of split logs used as fuel.

Definition: Solitary confinement.

Definition: A cellblock.

Definition: The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

Definition: A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.

Definition: A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

Definition: A section of a railroad where the block system is used.

Definition: The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.

Definition: A blockhole.

Definition: The popping crease.

Definition: A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

Example: The pipe is blocked.

Definition: To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

Example: You're blocking the road – I can't get through!

Definition: To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).

Example: His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.

Definition: To impede an opponent.

Example: He blocked the basketball player's shot.

Definition: To specify the positions and movements of the actors.

Example: It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.

Definition: To hit with a block.

Definition: To play a block shot.

Definition: To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.

Example: I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!

Definition: To wait.

Example: When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.

Definition: To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

Example: I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.

Definition: To shape or sketch out roughly.