Blockage
noun ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The state or condition of being blocked. countable, uncountable
"Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area."
- 2 the act of blocking wordnet
- 3 The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage. countable
"There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber."
- 4 an obstruction in a pipe or tube wordnet
- 5 Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:; Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism. countable, uncountable
"Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia."
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- 6 the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction wordnet
- 7 Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:; Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”). countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"There is a blockage in this pipe, preventing water from entering it."
Etymology
From block + -age.
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