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Shut out from view
Answer for the clue "Shut out from view ", 8 letters:
blocking
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Word definitions for blocking in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In radio , and wireless communications in general, blocking is a condition in a receiver in which an off-frequency signal (generally further off-frequency than the immediately adjacent channel) causes the signal of interest to be suppressed. Blocking rejection ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blocking \Block"ing\, n. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, verbal noun from present participle of block (v.). By 1891 in U.S. football; by 1961 in theater.
Usage examples of blocking.
Dostoevsky, we may adduce from such words, could well have increased his sense of guilt by blocking the possibility of turning angrily and self-defensively against an accusatory judge.
There was no answer but static, and Batman wondered if the jungle-covered slopes around him were blocking the signal.
They whizzed around a bend and there was a Bekins semi nearly blocking the whole highway and Trashcan put his hands over his face, prepared to make an immediate transition to the astral plane.
He could hear Bluey shouting behind him, and the chorus of horns that said he was blocking an intersection.
Zeid stepped behind his brother, thus blocking out Bulbul to the glee of the other officials, who did not mind being excluded themselves as long as Bulbul had been set in his place.
She gave a start as the man in question came round from behind the byre wall, blocking her path.
As the jacks lifted the caisson, the blocking was set for a lower position, to which the caisson settled as the jacks were exhausted.
The caisson usually rested on three sets of blockings on each side and two on each end.
When a sufficient number of posts had been placed, the blocking on which the caisson had rested was knocked or blasted out, and the rock underneath was excavated.
Alara spared a pitying thought for poor Shana, confined in a dead-end cavelet at the end of the main cavern, with a stone too large for her to lift blocking the entrance.
Wet, her cotton under cotte had the sun blocking power of illusion netting.
The pickups encircled the elongated band of trucks and machinery, using the high walls of the coulee to box them in and blocking both ends.
After leaving Shinjo this morning we crossed over a steep ridge into a singular basin of great beauty, with a semicircle of pyramidal hills, rendered more striking by being covered to their summits with pyramidal cryptomeria, and apparently blocking all northward progress.
I straddled the big monster, effectively blocking his view with my body, the two nurses carried the third through the open door panel into the Detainment Area.
Rashid moved quickly in front of Dorr, blocking any attack with his armored body.