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  2. Color-blocking - Wikipedia

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    Polo Ralph Lauren color block windbreaker jacket. In the fashion world, the process of color-blocking refers to wearing blocks of colors. Color-blocking is different from how people usually dress because the colors in the outfit are considered louder, or colors that clash.

  3. Volleyball jargon - Wikipedia

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    Illegal Block(er): When a back row player attempts to block an opponent's offensive action by making contact with the ball above the plane of the net Joust : when the ball is falling directly on top of the net, two opposing players jump and push against the ball, trying to push it onto the other's side

  4. Irresistible force paradox - Wikipedia

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    The problems associated with this paradox can be applied to any other conflict between two abstractly defined extremes that are opposite. One of the answers generated by seeming paradoxes like these is that there is no contradiction – that there is not a false dilemma. Christopher Kaczor suggested that the need to change indicates a lack of ...

  5. Blocking (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, blocking is the morphological phenomenon in which a possible form for a word cannot surface because it is "blocked" by another form whose features are the most appropriate to the surface form's environment. [1] More basically, it may also be construed as the "non-occurrence of one form due to the simple existence of another." [2]

  6. How to Block Annoying Emails for Good - AOL

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    Click “Junk” > “Block Sender” How to block emails on Yahoo. Web browser. Open an email from the sender that you want to block. Click the three-dot icon at the top of the email. Click ...

  7. Blocking (stage) - Wikipedia

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    Both "blocking" and "block" were applied to stage and theater from as early as 1961. [2] The term derives from the practice of 19th-century theatre directors such as Sir W. S. Gilbert who worked out the staging of a scene on a miniature stage using a block to represent each of the actors. [3]

  8. Receptor antagonist - Wikipedia

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    Antagonists will block the binding of an agonist at a receptor molecule, inhibiting the signal produced by a receptor–agonist coupling.. A receptor antagonist is a type of receptor ligand or drug that blocks or dampens a biological response by binding to and blocking a receptor rather than activating it like an agonist.

  9. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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    Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...