different between blocking vs cutoff

English

Verb

blocking

1. present participle of block

Noun

blocking (countable and uncountable, plural blockings)

1. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia.

2. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
3. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
4. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.

Translations

Anagrams

• gin block

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