different between blocked vs cutoff

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bl?kt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

blocked (comparative more blocked, superlative most blocked)

1. obstructed impeding general movement.

   This road is blocked, so we must find another route.

2. obstructed impeding total flow in a pipe, etc.

   Call a plumber to unclog the blocked drain.

3. (Ireland, slang) Drunk

Synonyms

• (obstructed movement): forwrought, impedite
• (obstructed flow): choked, clogged
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

Verb

blocked

1. simple past tense and past participle of block

Anagrams

• bedlock, deblock

English

Alternative forms

• cut-off

Etymology

cut +? off

Noun

cutoff (plural cutoffs)

1. The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
   1. (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
2. A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
3. A device that stops the flow of a current.
4. A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
5. A cessation in a flow or activity.
   • 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)

     If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.

6. (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
7. (chiefly in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
8. (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
   • 1919, The Washington Newspaper

     Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.

Translations

Adjective

cutoff (not comparable)

1. Constituting a limit or ending.
2. (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

Anagrams

• offcut