unblock
IPA: ʌnbɫɑk
noun
- The removal of a block or blockage.
verb
- (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
- (transitive) To free or make available.
- (intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
- (transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
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Examples of "unblock" in Sentences
- Some people saying it might be the DLL is not trusted, so you can 'unblock' it, see this blog.
- President took immediate action to "unblock" bureaucratic channels, and Joe Nhlanhla in his capacity as Secretary of the Politco-Military Committee
- They proceeded on the wrongheaded premise that if you got money to the banks, it would "unblock" the flow of credit to the economy and jump-start it again.
- This is so because the money sits in an imaginary reservoir and the state can "unblock" it (debloquer is the French word used to describe this happy event) ...
- I logged on today, only to find my friend's blocked. clicking the 'unblock' button does not work. deleting and re-adding them doesn't work. restarting didn't help.
- The department intended setting up three categories of housing projects in a bid to cut red tape and "unblock" 29 housing projects which have stalled for different reasons.
- It is " our hope, " the official also said, that talks that could see defense electronics company Thales SA modernize an Indian fleet of Mirage fighter jets will " unblock " during Mr. Sarkozy ' s visit.
- Often, MoveOn. org's staff doesn't discover that the mail isn't getting through for days or weeks, and even when it does, ISPs respond slowly to "unblock" requests or refuse to explain why email has been confiscated.
- I went to the local phone shop and they said for 30 bucks they could "unblock" my Motoral V600 phone and thus make it so that I can use the phone in Europe as a "local" telephone simply by buying a phone card with service in Europe.
- The brain is good at converting stresses into physical symptoms, so it is not so far-fetched to believe it might work in reverse; that jabbing at various nerves might produce chemical effects in the brain that can "unblock" that energy which the brain is diverting from one system to another, such as from the worrying-about-work-and-boys neurons to the jaw and stomach neurons.
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