Wood Block

  

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Wood Block

Definition: Wood Block

Wood Block

Noun

1. Engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Wood Block

DomainDefinition

Industry

Block of wood or briar root roughly shaped for the manufacture of pipes. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Wood block

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A wood block is a block of wood used as a percussion instrument. It is hit with a stick and it makes a noise that sounds like "clock, clock."

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wood block."

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Synonyms: Wood Block

Synonyms: wood engraving (n), woodcut (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wood Block

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Engraving

Graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Wood Block

Specialty definitions using "wood block": CHIP TUNERDRAWER WAXERLAST-MODEL MAKERmachine nog, model maker. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Wood Block

DomainTitle

Books

  • Japanese Artist's Book: Wood Block Impressions 17th - 20th Centuries (reference)

  • The Ultimate Wood Block Book: Castles, Bridges and Other Engineering Marvels (reference)

  • Wood block cutting & printing (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Wood Block

Illustrations:
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Sounds Captioned with "Wood Block".

PlayCaption
Hit on a wood block.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wood Block

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wood block

33

wood block print

13

japanese wood block print

9

japanese wood block

3

wood block flooring

2
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Modern Translation: Wood Block

Language Translations for "wood block"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

klishe në dru (woodcut), bllok druri. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

дървено клише, дървено блокче. (various references)

   

Danish

  

pibehovedemne (briar root block). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ebauchon (briar root block). (various references)

   

French

  

coin de bois, ébauchon. (various references)

   

German

  

Pfeifenrohform (briar root block). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίπα ημιτελής (briar root block). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hatömb. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sbozzo (blank, briar root block, coquille, curl, optical blank, pressing). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

木版 (wood block printing, wood engraving). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

もくは" (wood block printing, wood engraving). (various references)

   

Manx

  

block foiee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodway ockblay

   

Portuguese

  

esboço (delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, framing, layout, lineation, outline, picture, plan, schema, sketch, vignette). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

торец (butt, end), колода (chump, deck, junk, pack, woodblock). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

drvena kocka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escalabron (briar root block). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tahta kalıp, kütük (billet, block, calendar, chump, clog, enrollment, enrolment, ingot, log, logbook, record, register, registry, stock, stump), gravür (engraving, etching, gravure, woodcut, woodprint). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wood Block

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: woodblock.

Words within the letters "b-c-d-k-l-o-o-o-w"

-3 letters: kobold.

-4 letters: block, blood.

-5 letters: bloc, blow, bock, bold, bolo, book, bowl, clod, cold, cook, cool, cowl, dock, kobo, kolo, lobo, lock, loco, look, obol, wold, wood, wool.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-d-k-l-o-o-o-w"
 

+1 letter: woodblocks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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