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Blockage   /blˈɑkɪdʒ/   Listen
Blockage

noun
1.
The physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction.  Synonym: obstruction.
2.
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.  Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage.
3.
The act of blocking.  Synonyms: closure, occlusion.






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"Blockage" Quotes from Famous Books



... were weaknesses in the telepathic communication linkage that was the mainspring of Operation Mapcase, but he had thought that they could be overcome by the strengths of the system. Lenny had no blockage whatever against receiving visual patterns and designs. He could reproduce an electronic wiring diagram perfectly because, to him, it was not a grouping of scientific symbols, but a design of ...
— The Foreign Hand Tie • Gordon Randall Garrett

... Diaboli Organum videtur. Etiam Satyra Quinta haec habet: Constat omnia miracula certa ratione fieri, de quibus Epicurei prudentissime disputant. [Circumcised: Moses the King of the Jews, by whose laws they are ruled, and whose foreskin overhung (the tip of his penis), had this blockage carelessly medicinally removed, and not wishing to be alone wanted them all to be circumcised. (We have tentatively restored the word BLOCKAGE, which the scribe's incompetence has omitted, and substituted medically removed for carried out by a doctor which was never there.) ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler



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