solid block

collocation in English

meaningsofsolidandblock

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solid
adjective
uk
/ˈsɒl.ɪd/us
/ˈsɑː.lɪd/
hard or firm, keeping a ...
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block
noun
uk
/blɒk/us
/blɑːk/
mainly US
the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it, or one part of a street like this, especially in a town ...
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(Definition ofsolidandblockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsolid block

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All this is of onesolidblock, and any accidental straying must either be ignored or cause its total collapse.
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He is secure in the knowledge that he has asolidblockof trade union votes.
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I see thesolidblockof an outright ban as being very different from a compromise.
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The propeller was carved from asolidblockof wood.
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The prisoners are brought in, immobilized in asolidblock.
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In some cases we have in industries and at points in our country where they are most vital, asolidblockof productive workers.
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That is asolidblockof deduction in the form of national and local taxes from the wealth produced in this country.
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There is now, on many occasions, asolidblockof stationary traffic on the whole of one side of the square.
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It consists of compressing asbestos waste inside steel drums and adding a bonding agent to make the waste asolidblockwithin each drum.
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Asolidblockof congestion through a city means that anyone who could possibly avoid it would not want to live there.
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We are far too much inclined to look upon the 1,200,000 persons out of work as if they were asolidblock.
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When the frame was full, the whole made onesolidblockof type.
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Occasionally, asolidblockthat functions as a wild card appears.
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The wood may be asolidblock, a laminated block or a log from the woodpile.
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The cube is made from asolidblockof metal with a central cavity.
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Thissolidblockof wood is mated to a carved maple top.
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The barium ferrite turns into asolidblockwhile still retaining its magnetic properties.
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As tribal chairman, he could rally asolidblockof votes across the reservation.
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A new one was made by milling from asolidblockof aluminum.
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The bucking bar is a specially shapedsolidblockof metal.
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It is not onesolidblockof government owned land but rather several small blocks of government owned land.
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They are manufactured by milling away excess material from asolidblockof metal (usually using computer-controlled milling machines).
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Feedback can also be reduced by making them with asolidblockin the middle of the soundbox.
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Typically, no gourd is used, but the spherical part is gouged out of asolidblockof wood.
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The 20 tons of gold is melted into onesolidblockto make it difficult to steal.
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