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Definition: Blocky |
BlockyAdjective1. Resembling a block in shape. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BlockySynonym: blockish (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blocky |
| Specialty definitions using "blocky": quarry lode ♦ small-diameter blastholes, splint coal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blocky (1984) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The "face" on Mars. Taken from image 035A72. The image wasclipped, inverted (to produce the usual orientation which has been published),magnified by a factor of three, and contrast enhanced again, all usingColor It!™. (Note: Much of the "blocky" nature of the image is causedby the lossy compression scheme used in JPEG files.). Credit: NASA. |
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| "Blocky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blocky" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blocky | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blocky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | blockhaft. (various references) | |
Greek | στερεόσ (durable, fast, solid, stanch, staunch, steadfast, sturdy), χονδρόσ (beefy, big, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, stubbed, thick, thickset). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockyblay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blocky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballocky, Bellucci, Bilocca, blacky, blicky, bloch, blocke, blockx, blokey, blork, bolcek, Bolshoy, Brockly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-k-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: block. | |
-2 letters: bloc, bock, cloy, coly, lock, yock, yolk. | |
-3 letters: boy, cob, col, coy, kob, lob, yob, yok. | |
-4 letters: bo, by, lo, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-k-l-o-y" | |
+2 letters: blackboy, bullocky. | |
+3 letters: billycock, blackbody, blackboys. | |
+4 letters: billycocks, rockabilly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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