Objects
- A large concrete masonry unit
- A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, upon which persons are beheaded, e.g.: The charges that led Sir Walter Raleigh to the block in 1618.
- Tower block, a high rise multi-unit building
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
- Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Toy block, one of a set of wooden or plastic pieces of various shapes
- Unit block a type of standardized wooden toy block for children
- Freewheel, a set of rear sprockets that attaches to a hub on the rear wheel
- Wood block a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
- Hat block a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper
- Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps
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Famous quotes containing the word objects:
“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child’s life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
“All objects look well through an arch.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)