(n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
(n.) Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
(n.) To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
Example Sentences:
(1) Palestinians barricaded themselves inside al-Aqsa, throwing stones and fireworks at police entering the compound.
(2) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
(3) Student protesters in Berkeley and Columbia cheered their TV sets as footage from the Paris barricades made the American news in May, while French students took heart from images of the huge anti-war demonstrations now occurring across Europe and America.
(4) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
(5) It's very reminiscent of a similar death almost a year ago, when a "middle-aged trade unionist" collapsed and died during a protest ( details ) Updated at 1.42pm BST 1.31pm BST 30,000 join Athens protests Reuters reckons that more than 30,000 people took part in today's demonstrations in Athens, and that the trouble began when "a small group of protesters" began throwing marble, bottles and petrol bombs at the ropt police who were "barricading part of the square".
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Standing Rock Sioux siblings Austin, Mani, and PJ, stand in front of a police-guarded barricade.
(7) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
(8) The bridge has been barricaded for several weeks, blocking the most direct route to Bismarck, North Dakota, and raising safety concerns among residents of the camp and the reservation.
(9) Alec is tweeting from the scene, where "Locals throw rocks at troops, soldiers fire in air ": Locals are holding Russian flag, Molotov cocktails outside Kramatorsk airfield, which has been taken by Ukrainian forces A few young men in masks just arrived at Kramatorsk airfield, reportedly under control of Ukrainian forces now Locals have set up a barricade outside Kramatorsk airfield.
(10) Within minutes of the verdict, young men were pulling barricades on to Tahrir Square.
(11) I will man the barricades for the BBC, they have been good to me, but they have a tendency when accused of a crime just to hand themselves into the police station.
(12) Activists had planned to use vehicles as barricades to shut down border crossings at 17 locations in four states – Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.
(13) Police barricaded off the car park near it, forcing anyone attending to walk more than 200m down to the reserve.
(14) Demonstrators appeared to storm the short tunnel in reaction to police attempts over the past two days to chip away at barricades on the edges of the sprawling protest zone.
(15) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(16) The demonstrators’ numbers have diminished as many of them returned to work on Monday after a national holiday, but the protest zones remain barricaded, causing traffic jams and angering scores of business owners.
(17) Police erected a barbed wire barricade between the two groups after they faced off and sang rival anthems outside the heavily guarded magistrates court in Ventersdorp, North-West province.
(18) He said: Our activists were sitting there all night calmly, building the barricades.
(19) Police have chipped away at the protest zones in three areas across the city by removing barricades from around the edges.
(20) According to Dieter Rucht of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin: "This is driving people to the barricades who don't normally go out on to the streets."
Block
Definition:
(v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
(v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
(v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
(v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.
(v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
(v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
(v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
(v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
(v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
(v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
(v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
(v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
(n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
(n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
(n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(4) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(5) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(6) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(8) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(9) In this case, actinomycin D does not block the reinduction of N-acetyltransferase by isoproterenol or by dibutyryl cyclic AMP.
(10) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
(11) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(12) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(13) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(14) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(15) We concluded that ketamine potentiates the Phase I and the Phase II neuromuscular blocks of succinylcholine.
(16) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(17) Blocking the heparin-binding domains of fibronectin inhibited osteoblast attachment by 40-45%, which is complementary to inhibition results previously obtained with the RGDS tetrapeptide.
(18) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(19) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(20) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.