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 Translation for 'concrete block' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a concrete block | concrete blocks
constr.
bloque {m} de hormigón
concrete block
Partial Matches
constr.
hormigón {m}
concrete
constr.
hormigón {m} armado
reinforced concrete
constr.
hormigón {m} pobre
lean concrete
concreto {adj}concrete [real, material]
bloque {m}block
3
arq.inmue.
manzana {f}
block
bloquear algoto block sth.
arq.
edificio {m} [vivienda]
apartment block
loc.
cerrar el paso
to block the way
atascar algoto block sth. (up)
constr.
sillar {m}
block of stone
arq.
edificio {m} [vivienda]
block of flats [Br.]
arq.
pabellón {m} [en hospital, cuartel etc.]
block [building in hospital, barracks etc.]
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Usage Examples English
  • After placement of the debris inside the bunkers, they were secured and the entries blocked with a concrete block barrier (a.k.a. ...
  • Originally conceived for Manchester Peace Garden and commissioned by Manchester International Festival in 2009, this work consists of uprooted trees inverted into a concrete block in a powerful environmental memorandum of man's destructive capabilities and violation of Nature.
  • In particular, Alpena is home to Lafarge-Holcim cement plant and to Besser Company (maker of a concrete block making machinery), as well as a drywall board manufacturing facility owned by Decorative Panels International.
  • These include concrete block (either conventionally mortared or surface-bonded), stone masonry, cordwood masonry, poured concrete, and pressure-treated wood.
  • Fermilab's first director, Robert Wilson, insisted that the site's aesthetic complexion not be marred by a collection of concrete block buildings.

  • The concrete block sculpture consists of six undulating walls, each 12 feet high, and spans 140 feet.
  • Today the Society is located at Chateau Neuf, a large concrete block building to the south of the Blindern Campus.
  • It maintains a rural character despite its proximity to Baqubah and Baghdad, with many residents living in traditional mud huts with some concrete-block houses.
  • Isokon Flats, also known as Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon building, on Lawn Road in the Belsize Park district of the London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced concrete block of 36 flats (originally 32), designed by Canadian engineer Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard.
  • After more than six hours, no Branch Davidians had left the building, sheltering instead in an underground concrete block room ("the bunker") within the building or using gas masks.

  • The concrete block containing the torso weighed over 200 pounds.
  • Along the north side of each floor were offices, separated from the records storage area by a concrete block wall.
  • In the recovery of lost sources, the IAEA recommends careful planning and using a crane or other device to place shielding (such as a pallet of bricks or a concrete block) near the source to protect recovery workers.
  • Other types of burial at sea include the mixing of the ashes with concrete and dropping the concrete block to form an artificial reef such as the Atlantis Reef.
  • A multiple-wythe masonry wall may be composed of a single type of masonry unit layered to increase its thickness and structural strength, or different masonry units chosen by function, such as an economical concrete block serving a structural purpose and a more expensive brick chosen for its appearance.

  • A serious incident during the national dispute occurred in his area at the end of November 1984, when taxi driver David Wilkie was killed when two striking miners dropped a concrete block off a local bridge onto Wilkie's taxi, which was taking a strike-breaking miner to work.
  • He has provided job opportunities in his hometown in the Dominican Republic through his business ventures: a concrete-block factory, a propane distribution company, a supermarket, a livestock and vegetable farm, and a women's clothing store.
  • Brick and concrete block are the most common types of masonry in use in industrialized nations and may be either load-bearing or non-load-bearing.
  • He added a small pavilion with columns by the lake in 1963, an art gallery set into a hillside in 1965, a postmodern sculpture gallery with a glass roof in 1970; a castle-like library with a rounded tower in 1980; and a concrete block tower dedicated to his friend Lincoln Kirstein, the founder of the New York City Ballet; a chain-link "ghost house" dedicated to Frank Gehry.
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