"unblock" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʌnˈblɒk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unblock.wav Forms: unblocks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒk Etymology: From un- + block. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|block}} un- + block Head templates: {{en-noun}} unblock (plural unblocks)
  1. The removal of a block or blockage.
    Sense id: en-unblock-en-noun--2fZrqVy Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 15 19 11 28 27

Verb

IPA: /ʌnˈblɒk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unblock.wav Forms: unblocks [present, singular, third-person], unblocking [participle, present], unblocked [participle, past], unblocked [past]
Rhymes: -ɒk Etymology: From un- + block. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|block}} un- + block Head templates: {{en-verb}} unblock (third-person singular simple present unblocks, present participle unblocking, simple past and past participle unblocked)
  1. (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from. Tags: transitive Synonyms: deobstruct Translations (to remove obstructions): освобождавам (osvoboždavam) (Bulgarian), премахвам препятствие (premahvam prepjatstvie) (Bulgarian), desblocar (Catalan), desbloquejar (Catalan), deblokkeren (Dutch), ontstoppen (Dutch), განბლოკავს (ganbloḳavs) (Georgian), disostruire (Italian), whakatahe (Maori), whakapara (Maori), odetkać [perfective] (Polish), deblokírati [imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), desbloquear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-unblock-en-verb-7IgC1VlW Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un-, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Maori translations Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 15 19 11 28 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 13 6 33 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 12 3 38 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 5 10 4 37 43 Disambiguation of 'to remove obstructions': 63 0 17 19
  2. (transitive) To free or make available. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-unblock-en-verb-i8fBt8WO Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 15 19 11 28 27
  3. (intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Card games
    Sense id: en-unblock-en-verb-t6hXOZOZ Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un-, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Maori translations Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 15 19 11 28 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 13 6 33 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 12 3 38 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 5 10 4 37 43 Topics: card-games, games
  4. (transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked). Tags: transitive Translations (to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)): деблокирам (deblokiram) (Bulgarian), desbloquejar (Catalan), deblokkeren (Dutch), felold (Hungarian), odblokować (Polish), desbloquear (Spanish), avblockera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-unblock-en-verb-0JvgRi3- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 15 2 31 46 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 15 19 11 28 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 9 3 36 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 16 3 32 45 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 15 2 34 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 6 13 4 33 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 6 11 4 33 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 13 6 33 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 5 11 4 35 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 6 8 3 30 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 12 3 38 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 5 10 4 37 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 7 12 6 32 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 6 11 4 34 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 13 4 30 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 5 11 4 34 46 Disambiguation of 'to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)': 3 0 12 85

Inflected forms

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          "word": "deobstruct"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Syed Ali, Dubai: gilded cage, page 58:",
          "text": "It is not just bad news about Dubai that gets blocked from the Internet; […] a whole range of other social networking sites have been blocked, unblocked and reblocked.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To free or make available."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "free",
          "free"
        ],
        [
          "available",
          "available"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To free or make available."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "whist",
          "whist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈblɒk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unblock.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "osvoboždavam",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "освобождавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "premahvam prepjatstvie",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "премахвам препятствие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "desblocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "desbloquejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "deblokkeren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "ontstoppen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ganbloḳavs",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "განბლოკავს"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "disostruire"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "whakatahe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "whakapara"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odetkać"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "deblokírati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to remove obstructions",
      "word": "desbloquear"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "deblokiram",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "деблокирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "desbloquejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "deblokkeren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "felold"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "odblokować"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "desbloquear"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)",
      "word": "avblockera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unblock"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with un-",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "block"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + block",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From un- + block.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unblocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unblock (plural unblocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Danny Roth, Focus on Declarer Play, page 68:",
          "text": "Look for every opportunity to create an entry to the weak hand. Spectacular unblocks are often needed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Natalie Enright Jerger, Tushar Krishna, Li-Shiuan Peh, On-Chip Networks: Second Edition, page 110:",
          "text": "Control messages, such as requests/forwards/unblocks, are often shorter as they need to carry the address and some header information, while data messages, such as responses, are cache-line sized with some extra header information.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The removal of a block or blockage."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈblɒk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unblock.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unblock"
}

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