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n. 1 (building block English) 2 A child's toy consisting of blocks of wood or another material, stacked or joined to form a larger structure.
Usage examples of "building blocks".
Now that we've got all these building blocks, though, I should be able to block off the gap completely.
He looked down at the Maags working just below the gap, and then over at the steadily growing stacks of building blocks behind the gap.
The ceiling was drab grey, the original building blocks exposed and cross-laced with heavy ferrocrete load-bearers.
It might even be that Arthur Stuart can make some of the building blocks.
The slanted roofs, some of them fifty yards high, were of the same polished golden stone, without any chinks between the roof or building blocks.
I've extrapolated from our building blocks and the computer -- we're going to wind up with more than twice that number in this .
Quarter-ton limestone building blocks mixed widi gargoyles and fretwork and fragments of glass avalanched across the pavement.
And then, since every kind of atom in the universe is identical -- the building blocks of the universe -- you are precisely duplicated, atom for atom, molecule for molecule, cell for cell, down to the tiniest scar or hair on your wrist.
They were tetrahedral building blocks of calcium and carbon, the size of poppyseeds, each equipped with a power source, a brain, and a navigational system.
The rock had weathered into almost geometrical cubes, so that they seemed to be the ancient building blocks of a giant's castle.