1) Action 2) Barrier 3) Cordon 4) Cuban Missile Crisis tactic 5) Defence 6) Encirclement 7) Environmental fiction book 8) Fence 9) Fortification 10) Great barrier above the reef 11) Gremlin Industries game 12) Hurdle 13) Impose a blockade on 14) Military action 15) Military strategy 16) Naval tactic
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1) Bar 2) Barricade 3) Beleaguering 4) Besieging 5) Closure 6) Embargo 7) Encirclement 8) Fence 9) Hindrance 10) Obstruct 11) Protest 12) Seal off 13) Siege 14) Stonewall 15) Stymy 16) Surround
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A blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. A blockade should not be confused with an embargo or sanctions, which are legal barriers to trade, and is distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather t...
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[board game] Blockade is a `the Beat the Barrier` board game for two players, invented by Mirko Marchesi and published by Lakeside{dn|date=September 2013} in 1975. The newer strategy game Quoridor shares many of the same characteristics as Blockade. ==Gameplay and rules== Two players are each given two pawns, nine green walls (which are pla...
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[solitaire] Blockade is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. Akin to solitaire games like Klondike and Gargantua, the object of the game is play the cards into the eight foundations. ==Rules== The game starts with twelve piles, each containing a card (the rest form the stock). Cards are built down by suit (e....
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[video game] Blockade is an arcade maze game developed and published by Gremlin in October 1976. Using four directional buttons, each player moves their character around leaving a solid line behind them, turning at 90 degree angles. To win, a player must last longer than the opponent before hitting something, with the first person to hit so...
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• (v. t.) An obstruction to passage. • (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. • (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from. • (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockad...
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an act of war by which a belligerent prevents access to or departure from a defined part of the enemy`s coasts.[6 related articles]
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Cutting-off of a place by hostile forces by land, sea, or air so as to prevent any movement to or fro, in order to compel a surrender without attack or to achieve some other political aim (for...
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stopping people or goods (such as ammunition) getting through
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1. Intravenous injection of large amounts of colloidal dyes or other substances whereby the reaction of the reticuloendothelial cells to other influences (e.g., by phagocytosis) is temporarily prevented. ... 2. Arrest of peripheral nerve conduction or transmission at autonomic synaptic junctions, autonomic receptor sites, or myoneural junctions by ...
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(blok-ād´) in pharmacology, the blocking of the effect of a neurotransmitter or hormone by a drug. in histochemistry, a chemical reaction that modifies certain chemical groups and blocks a specific staining method. regional anesthesia.
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Block·ade' noun [ Confer Italian
bloccata . See
Block ,
transitive verb ]
1. The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the
blockade of the ports of an enemy. &#...
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Block·ade' transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Blockaded ;
present participle & verbal noun Blockading .]
1. To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing...
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The actual investment of a port or place by a hostile force fully competent to cut off all communication therewith, so arranged or disposed as to be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access or approach to the port or place so invested.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: blok-ād′ Definitions: 1. The occupation of receptors by an antagonist so that usual agonists are relatively ineffective. 2. Receptor blockade, blocking the effect of a hormone at the cell surface. 3. Arrest of nerve impulse conduction or transmission at autonomic synaptic junctions, autonomic receptor sites, or ...
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A blockade is the rendering of intercourse with the seaports of an enemy unlawful on the part of neutrals, and it consists essentially in the presence of a sufficient naval force to make such intercourse difficult. It must be declared or made public, so that neutrals may have notice of it. If a blockade is instituted by a sufficient authority, and ...
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[
n] - prevents access or progress 2. [n] - a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy 3. [v] - obstruct access to 4. [v] - impose a blockade on
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verb obstruct access to
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encirclement noun a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
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Cutting-off of a place by hostile forces by land, sea, or air so as to prevent any movement to or fro, in order to compel a surrender without attack or to achieve some other political aim (for example, the Berlin blockade (1948) and Union blockade of Confederate ports during the American Civil War). Economic sanctions are sometimes used in an a...
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