* Blocking ( American football ), when a player obstructs another player's path

* Blocking ( martial arts ), a defensive technique in the martial arts

* Blocking ( computing ), holding up a task until an event occurs

* Blocking ( stage ), the movement and positioning of actors on the stage ( and in film, within the frame )

* Blocking ( improv ), in improvisation, an actor who does not accept the dramatic world set up by other actors

* Blocking ( American football ), the legal interference with another player's motion

* Blocking ( martial arts ), a defensive technique in martial arts

* Blocking ( textile arts ), the process of stretching a knitted garment into shape while wet or using steam

* Blocking ( statistics ), in the design of experiments, the arranging of experimental units in groups ( blocks ) which are similar to one another

Blocking of non-specific binding is achieved by placing the membrane in a dilute solution of protein-typically 3-5 % Bovine serum albumin ( BSA ) or non-fat dry milk ( both are inexpensive ) in Tris-Buffered Saline ( TBS ), with a minute percentage of detergent such as Tween 20 or Triton X-100.

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When a team was Charging they alternated turns, and when Blocking they each placed three blocks on the board.

Blocking reduces known but irrelevant sources of variation between units and thus allows greater precision in the estimation of the source of variation under study.

Blocking and shading can be reduced by using absorber towers elevated higher or by increasing the absorber size, which allows increased spacing between reflectors remote from the absorber.

Blocking a check is done by moving a piece ( from the checked king's army ) to a square in line in between the checking piece and the checked king.

Blocking is used to facilitate the handling of the data-stream by the computer program receiving the data.

Blocking is a theatre term which refers to the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera.

The stage itself has been given named areas to facilitate the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage ( see Blocking ( stage )).

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

In the construction industry a specialised proprietary adhesive known as Liquid Nails ( or liquid nails as the generic ), is used.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

European segmental arch bridges date back to at least the Alconétar Bridge ( approximately 2nd century AD ), while the enormous Roman era Trajan's Bridge ( 105 AD ) featured open-spandrel segmental arches in wooden construction.

The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel ( extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport ), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ), which had little experience in managing an undertaking of the scope and magnitude of the CA / T Project, hired a joint venture to provide preliminary designs, manage design consultants and construction contractors, track the project's cost and schedule, advise MTA on project decisions, and ( in some instances ) act as the MTA's representative.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

The Ministry also created the National Institute of Transit ( from the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Tránsito ), ( INTRA ) under the Transport and tariffs Directorate and was in charge of designing the first National roads plan with the support of many foreign multinational construction companies.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

* Chord ( truss construction ), an outside member of a truss, as opposed to the inner " webbed members "

Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.

* Clinker ( boat building ), construction method for wooden boats

The " title " of commodore continues to be used in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for those senior captains in command of organizations consisting of groups of ships or submarines organized into squadrons ; air wings or air groups of multiple aviation squadrons other than carrier air wings ( the latter whose commanders still use the title " CAG "); explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ), mine warfare and special warfare ( SEAL ) groups ; and construction battalion ( SeaBee ) regiments.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

The materials most often used in double-bass construction are maple ( back, neck, ribs ), spruce ( top ), and ebony ( fingerboard, tailpiece ).

This research has been implemented in fluid construction grammar ( FCG ), a formalism for construction grammars that has been specially designed for the origins and evolution of language.

In addition to words derived naturally from the language's roots ( without any known intentional invention ), English allows new words to be formed by coinage and construction ; place names may be considered words ; technical terms may be arbitrarily long.

In 1907 Gaumont owned and operated the biggest movie studio in the world, and along with the boom in construction of " luxury cinemas " like the Gaumont-Palace and the Pathé-Palace ( both 1911 ), cinema became an economic challenger to legitimate theater by 1914.

Post and lintel, or in contemporary usage Post and beam, is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts.

Typical tasks would include determining horizontal and vertical alignment design, station location and design, and construction cost estimating.

The school's style is marked by horizontal lines, flat roofs with broad overhanging eaves, solid construction, craftsmanship, and strict discipline in the use of ornament.

Land surveying can include associated services such as mapping and related data accumulation, construction layout surveys, precision measurements of length, angle, elevation, area, and volume, as well as horizontal and vertical control surveys, and the analysis and utilization of land survey data.

It is associated with the following components: 火, 米, 灬, and 业 without the bottom horizontal stroke — this allows construction of characters such as 严.

The major difference is that in mastaba construction they laid horizontal courses, but for the pyramid layers, they built in accretion layers that leaned inwards, while using blocks that were both bigger and higher quality.

This company does " horizontal " construction missions which in military parlance means it is tasked with building and / or fixing roads.

** Door rails, see frame and panel, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction

In this planned city, which began construction in 1967, a system of ten horizontal and eleven vertical roads at 1 km intervals was used with roundabouts at each intersection.

Both birds gather nest materials, but the female does most of the construction, usually on a horizontal limb or in a crotch well away from the tree trunk, at any height.

The horizontal distance between steps is reduced by a factor less than two if for construction reasons there are narrow " unused " steps.

This reduces or eliminates the horizontal thrust against the abutments and allows their construction on weaker ground.

The rhombic antenna, like other horizontal antennas, can radiate at elevation angles close to the horizon or at higher angles depending on its height above ground relative to the operating frequency and its physical construction.

They build a cup nest similar in construction to a hummingbird nest on a horizontal tree branch.

* A device used to measure true horizontal or relative heights, frequently used in surveying and construction:

Tunnels of less than a metre or so in diameter are typically done using trenchless construction methods or horizontal directional drilling rather than TBMs.

In 2008, wood construction was evoked abstractly on the Ford Flex with a series of side and rear horizontal grooves.

It may be attached directly to the building structure ( studs in the case of wood construction ), or to an intermediate layer of horizontal planks called sheathing.

Barrel-staves are sometimes referred to as a form of dome-top trunk, but generally date from a decade or more earlier and are notable for having horizontal slats instead of vertical, giving it a distinctive look and construction.

* Dams such as Glenmore use the downward force ( gravity ) of the weight of the construction materials ,( concrete ), to resist the horizontal force of the water they hold.

Trenchless construction includes such construction methods as tunneling, microtunneling ( MTM ), horizontal directional drilling ( HDD ) also known as directional boring, pipe ramming ( PR ), pipe Jacking ( PJ ), moling, horizontal auger boring ( HAB ) and other methods for the installation of pipelines and cables below the ground with minimal excavation.