blocky
pronunciation
How to pronounce blocky in British English:
UK ['blɒkɪ]
How to pronounce blocky in American English:
US ['blɒkɪ]
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- Adjective:
- resembling a block in shape
Word Origin
- blocky (adj.)
- 1879, from block (n.) + -y (2). Related: Blockily; blockiness.
Example
- 1. Version 3.1 added apple 's truetype fonts , based on a scaleable outline , or glyph , rather than blocky pixels .
- 2. Traditional structures have been shorn from cities and replaced by nondescript , blocky modernity .
- 3. Results it shows that lithology of turbidite is similar with that of wallrocks . Blocky bedding , parallel bedding , cross-bedding and convolute structure are better developed in this area .
- 4. Other blocky figures lay about like so many dropped toys .
- 5. Click and move the mouse around to make the picture blocky .