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"concrete block" Definitions
  1. a hollow building unit of concrete

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A small concrete block nearby also was stained with blood.
One woman reported using a concrete block to beat her belly.
In some neighbourhoods, the tops of concrete-block houses were simply blown off.
He chose to fill his tiny cell with a concrete block cleaved in two.
"For Sale" signs are plastered on concrete-block houses and sun-bleached bungalows alike.
The concrete block basically pierces through the metal frame and sends shattered glass flying everywhere.
He had bought a concrete block, shaved his head, left the keys in his car.
One, a concrete-block building with metal roofing, features a mezzanine level with an office.
One young Somali man is seen lying face down with a concrete block on his back.
Yet it was this nonprofessional spirit which made him the concrete-block spiritual heart of GBE.
Concrete-block-and-wire tables held trays of soil cubes — each indented with a small dimple.
At the end of the street, in front of a scrap yard, Hersey mounted a concrete block.
Known as Villa Las Glorias, it is of painted concrete block with a red barrel-tiled roof.
Around midday, Helen Bowerman was pouring water into the guttering on her concrete-block and metal-roof house.
Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
Rodriguez said he doesn't remember when his attacker picked up the concrete block, but he remembers being hit repeatedly.
The concrete block walls, ultra-thin mattresses, and lack of natural light can almost make them feel like jail cells.
The cells are 28503 x 22019, with concrete-block walls, a metal toilet and a steel door with a slot.
In December, two strikers killed a taxi driver by hitting him with a concrete block intended for a working miner.
He tried to hide behind a concrete block, but an officer yelled "Freeze!" and charged at him with a baton.
The exterior is a mix of dark wood and concrete block, with a string of punched skylights under the eaves.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga ordered the Education Ministry to conduct nationwide safety checks of concrete block structures at public schools.
Without warning, the woman hit him with a concrete block, he said, and enlisted a group of men to kick him.
Misbel Borjas was driving by when she saw the woman hitting Rodriguez repeatedly in the head with a concrete block, she said.
In a second photo, Goulding poses in the same bikini while standing on a concrete block jutting out into the pristine waters.
Inside the concrete-block home she shares with her husband, their three daughters and three grandsons, the ceiling is stained from leaks.
After his father was injured lifting a concrete block, the younger Martínez began doing construction work of his own and also fixing bicycles.
Lives Nani Ma was standing in a white sari outside her hut, a bare concrete block with a tin roof, when I arrived.
The woman assaulted him without warning, hitting him with a concrete block and enlisting a group of men to beat him, he said.
Those who are not able to leave reside in tight, overcrowded camps, which over the decades have become overcrowded, urban concrete-block neighborhoods.
The glass-and-concrete-block design was inspired by the experimental Case Study houses built mostly in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1966.
The all-in cost was around $200 for a new chimney crown and resealing the concrete block at the top of the chimney.
He built a concrete-block backstop in a sunlit corner of the yard, and he hits the strike zone most of the time.
Their design notably included film, which can be seen through a small square window on the side of the large cuboidal concrete block.
Now they live in Van, a concrete-block Turkish city squeezed between a huge lake and spectacular mountains an hour's drive from the border.
He was dressed in prison scrubs, sitting in a small meeting room with a table and a couple of chairs and concrete block walls.
As residents build up concrete block walls and cement floors, the camps have taken on an air of permanence and transformed into sprawling slums.
Other videos showed him walking on West 27th Street with the remaining suitcase, setting it against a concrete block and walking away empty-handed.
One of the parcels had been planted with a cabin, a low-slung, concrete-block one-bedroom structure clad in swirly patterned pink stone.
They want to -- they want you to talk to them about how they can run machinery, or run a back hoe or sling concrete block.
St. Paul police said one officer suffered a broken vertebrae when a concrete block was dropped on his head during the protest on the interstate.
Without warning, the woman assaulted him, he said, hitting him with a concrete block and enlisting a group of men to join in beating him.
It was his second stint at Nickel, after a brief free-world excursion that had ended when he threw a concrete block through a windshield.
At 18, his mom kicked him out of the house, and he took jobs at McDonald's and a concrete-block plant, racing on the side.
Her body was found wrapped in plastic bags and chained to a concrete block at the bottom of the Nolichuckey River, according to the Tennessean.
After a brief scare about having to completely replace that concrete block, we were happy to hear they were able to keep what was there.
He built 2,500 homes there, offering eight varieties by manipulating the interior floor plans, the patterns of the concrete-block walls and the color schemes.
There's already a partially 3D-printed bridge near Amsterdam in the village of Gemert, though the concrete block design is rudimentary compared to the MX3D bridge.
He locked the concrete block in the toolbox and put the chain, the two remaining padlocks, the raft, the paddle, and the pump inside the backpack.
Earlier this year the gallery displayed another Studio Drift work at the Armory Show in New York — a concrete block titled "Drifter" that floated mysteriously in midair.
In the Tamburi neighborhood, a grid of crumbling concrete block apartments with laundry billowing from their balconies, residents have grown accustomed to watching young people move away.
Only one resident here in this place of concrete-block and adobe-brick homes was killed — an older man crushed in his house by a collapsed wall.
When the sister was brought into the room, he learned that a concrete block had fallen on her head, and the blobs were pieces of her brain.
The tilting concrete block serves as a sort of chimney, hollow and open to the sky over an interior courtyard with a fire pit at its heart.
On a slope in full view of Mount Puglia, their solid if haphazardly designed house of tile, brick and concrete block was set amid a little rural paradise.
He said he strangled a woman they had abducted and that the pair then raped a 12-year-old girl and repeatedly hit her with a concrete block.
Some examples of inmate ventures that have been successful are the printing press, the workshops, the bakery (which employs 150 people), and a couple of concrete block-making businesses.
I wondered what that meant for earthquakes — and Pontes told me that the concrete block is supposed to withstand even bigger earthquakes than the plant was designed to take.
One initiative aims to increase six-fold the percentage of green areas in Riyadh, notorious for its multi-lane highways and concrete block buildings, by planting 7.5 million trees.
Both call for simple, economical construction with big panels of waterproof plywood combined with concrete block (Basement Shelter) or sand or gravel fill (Above-Ground Shelter.) Strong, safe, dependable, durable.
Every time she looked at him, she would remember that he had once got on a bus headed north, packing a concrete block and a gun he'd never told her about.
I visited Brigantine two years after Sandy struck, and saw damaged houses that had been raised onto elevated concrete-block foundations in the hope of protecting them from future storm surges.
Camps for thousands of displaced families sprouted up from the early days of the war and over the years have turned into settlements of concrete-block housing, built with foreign assistance.
Constructed of concrete block, with a zinc roof covered in palm leaves, the 7,400-square-foot home is bisected by an infinity pool and a garden area overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
He made it over, replacing narrow windows with floor-to-ceiling glass, reconfiguring rooms, banishing fluorescent light fixtures and masking the cartoonish living room fireplace with concrete block and blackened steel.
Fry said bandy-bandies were burrowing snakes so they were surprised when they found it on a concrete block by the sea, after coming in from a night of sea snake spotting.
When our site turned out to be a shadeless gravel pad with a view of a wooden fence and the large concrete block structure housing bathrooms, I needed to redeem the day.
John told the salesman at a Home Depot in Durham that the chain was for a porch swing, the concrete block for a step to the utility building in his back yard.
"I ended up spending everything," Kibet, 40, said on a recent afternoon from his home in Eldoret, a one-bedroom apartment in a concrete-block building that sits between two gas stations.
Her concrete block home, shared between four families, lies in Abobo, a deprived district with extremely limited infrastructure and scant running water in the northern part of the Ivory Coast's largest city.
Click here to view original GIFTurns out, dropping a giant concrete block onto a car ends exactly like how you would imagine it would: the car gets completely obliterated and smashed to smithereens.
They also found a blood-stained skirt that Elizabeth was last seen wearing "hastily buried" close to the recovered knife and pipe, as well as a concrete block with blood on it nearby.
British gallery owner John Brandler bought "Season's Greetings" by the elusive street artist for a "six-figure sum" in January after it appeared on a concrete block garage wall in Wales before Christmas.
Then, on my way out, my foot knocked over a concrete block and uncovered an I.E.D. I stopped, and noticed two other unexploded bombs a few feet away, as well as four detonators.
From the east, the elevation presents a slim, unadorned, milk-white concrete block, nine stories high, punctured by loggias — a signpost, like the traditional village bell tower, rising above a low, scruffy neighborhood.
Unlocking the door of a nondescript concrete block at the institute this week, Hildebrandt showed off a cryogenic tank in which 300ml of northern white rhino semen is stored in liquid nitrogen at -196C.
The man was seen arriving on foot, pushing his bike along the pedestrian-only Victor Hugo street, then leaving paper bag on a concrete block in the middle of the street near a bakery.
The village — with its rudimentary one-story concrete-block houses, four churches, one school and a community center — is arrayed along partly paved roads on a small peninsula between the bay and the sea.
But during that time, Mr. Sundharam says, the region strayed from the types of "passive design" and concrete-block exteriors that once made the desert's large daily temperature swings tolerable (if not entirely pleasant).
In a recent interview in Berlin, Mr. König, 183, flicked through his phone to a photo of a concrete block in the upscale Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, where the third König Galerie will open.
Eastern Ghouta, a cluster of concrete-block towns and farmland with an estimated population of nearly 400,000, is one of the last major areas held by insurgents fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Here you'll discover such buildings as Abidjan's former city hall, fusing a copper tower with a concrete ceremonial space, or the National Assembly in Lusaka, consisting of a long concrete block supported by dainty stilts.
We're in Ritsona refugee camp, sitting outside his "room": a blanket covered, semi-fallen down concrete block in an old army building that stands aside from the city of tents where hundreds more Syrian refugees live.
Baishizhou Journal BAISHIZHOU, China — The concrete block buildings that shade the narrow asphalt alleyways of Baishizhou are so closely situated that they are called "handshake" buildings — it is that easy for neighbors to greet one another.
Few images will seem as familiar to viewers as the scene in "High School" (1968) when an official — the camera tagging behind — patrols one of the school's concrete-block halls, demanding passes and ordering students to class.
Inside, the main hub resembles something like NASA's Mission Control with banks of computers, monitors, and other high-tech monitoring equipment arranged around a large, windowless control room, safely ensconced deep in the concrete block of the building.
Then, he walked slowly from the Freedom House on the South Korean side of the border village to meet the North Korean leader who approached the concrete block that serves as the military demarcation line from the other side.
The letter also mentioned a recent protest in St. Paul that injured 21 officers, including one who suffered a spinal fracture after a concrete block was dropped on his head, according to KARE 11, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis.
Then after the concrete block is cured, or hardened, the forms can be elevated on vertical rails attached to the block, so the next block of concrete can be built atop the previous one within a safe enclosed space.
Each one is attached to a concrete block the artist sourced from construction sites around New York and is sincerely presented as hailing from the past: every piece has an "Object Record Form," meticulously filled in with Bochynski's imagined histories.
The dry storage comes in two flavors on the San Onofre site: in one, the canisters stand up vertically in the steel-lined cavities of a massive concrete block; in another, they slide in horizontally, like corpses into a nuclear morgue.
After forcing him out of the car, Holmes knocked the young man in the head with a concrete block; the abductors then bound him with wire, tied concrete blocks to his legs, and threw him into the San Francisco Bay.
Turquoise, cholla cactus green, the yellow of a brittlebush flower: the colors of the simple, elegant house, constructed of inexpensive materials and needing little maintenance — just concrete block, steel columns, glass and corrugated aluminum — mirror the particulars of the desert.
From one side, the "Season's Greetings" mural on a concrete block garage in Wales shows a small boy with his tongue out to catch snow that, when viewed from another side, turns out to be ash from an industrial bin.
When the piece begins, with a man tethered to a concrete block, bleating like a goat, it's hard to imagine what any of this could have to do with Tchaikovsky, castles, swans in white tutus and the wicked magicians who enslave them.
In one case, a parent in Belleview, Florida, filed a complaint that their son was injured driving their 2008 Accord last March after running into a concrete block wall at about 50 mph (80 kph) and the airbags failed to deploy, according to NHTSA records.
The difference between the two artists is apparent in the main part of Mr. Sachs's exhibition, which is installed in a rather dank, unheated gallery, with concrete-block walls and exposed industrial beams, wherein rugged, abstract Noguchi sculptures carved from big chunks of basalt are usually displayed.
Vespertine's building, a four-story tower with an orange exoskeleton of warped steel that looks as if it were left too close to a toaster oven, kept breathing or humming while I drank birch soda on a heated concrete block in the garden beside a smoking lump of frankincense.
Photograph by Ulysses Ortega for The New Yorker Today, Todos Santos is a tangle of "remittance houses," several stories tall, built of concrete block, with columns and fanciful towers, blue reflective windows, American and Guatemalan flags painted along the trim, and ears of corn strung out to dry on balconies.
He had been asked to design a new entrance for the museum and, instead of adding on some utilitarian concrete block, had created a great welcoming space: put a swirling staircase underground and capped it with a glow of transparency and light that did not touch, let alone hurt, the old ornamented façades.
Situated in the St Pauli area of the northern German city, part of the squat concrete block has been acquired by the NH Hotel Group, which plans to inject new life into the building with a five-storey roof garden on top and a leafy walkway around the side of the building.
In these countries' capitals, International Style architecture became a marker of new nationalist ambition, whether in Abidjan, the economic engine of Ivory Coast, which built high rises resembling those of La Défense in Paris, or in Lusaka, where a new building for Zambia's National Assembly comprised a long concrete block supported by dainty pilotis.
Her use of salvaged carpet for surface material to draw into it with a knife a blueprint plan of a 1940's modernist high-density concrete block of flats, then presenting it by hanging and draping it from floor to ceiling and transforming the blue print into a three dimensional drawing in space as a floppy, soft and bodily object — quite the opposite to the hard-edged concrete Brutalism style building the plan was designed for people to live in.
Jane commandeered a monstrous concrete block of a building next to the original Times house, its 40 urinals testament to its previous use as a barracks for Saddam Hussein's secret police, and quickly began organizing what would become the largest New York Times bureau in history, overseeing construction work despite the fact that there was little electricity (she imported massive generators from Britain), a dearth of electrical and plumbing supplies (she ordered them from Jordan), and a steadily increasing number of insurgent attacks (she ignored them).

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