Front Street (Philadelphia) — Front Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a street running parallel to and near the Delaware River. It was constructed when Philadelphia was laid out by William Penn in 1682.Front Street is the origin street of Philadelphia s numbered street… … Wikipedia
Mifflin Street Block Party — An artist recites a slam poem for a backyard crowd. The Mifflin Street Block Party is an annual celebration held on Mifflin Street in Madison, Wisconsin on the first Saturday of May. The 2011 Mifflin Block Party is scheduled for April 30th. It is … Wikipedia
Street Scene (opera) — Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book), based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name by Rice. For his work on Street Scene ,… … Wikipedia
Street organ — A street organ is a mechanical organ designed to play in the street. The operator of a street organ is called an organ grinder. The two main types are the smaller German street organ and the larger Dutch street organ. In the United Kingdom,… … Wikipedia
block — block1 W2S2 [blɔk US bla:k] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(solid material)¦ 2¦(streets/area)¦ 3¦(large building)¦ 4¦(quantity of things)¦ 5 block booking/voting 6¦(inability to think)¦ 7¦(stopping movement)¦ 8¦(punishment)¦ 9 put your he … Dictionary of contemporary English
block — 1 noun (C) 1 SOLID MASS a solid mass of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides (+ of): a block of ice 2 STREET/STREETS a) AmE the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next: It s three blocks to the … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
block*/*/ — [blɒk] noun [C] I 1) a large building with a lot of different levels an apartment/office block[/ex] The whole block of flats was destroyed.[/ex] 2) a solid piece of wood, stone, ice etc with straight sides a block of marble[/ex] 3) an amount of… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
block — block1 [ blak ] noun count *** ▸ 1 piece of wood/stone etc. ▸ 2 distance along street ▸ 3 amount/quantity of something ▸ 4 period of time ▸ 5 (large) building ▸ 6 at start of race ▸ 7 something that stops movement ▸ 8 something that stops action… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
block — I UK [blɒk] / US [blɑk] noun [countable] Word forms block : singular block plural blocks *** 1) a) a large building with a lot of different levels There s a flat available in the block where I live. an apartment/office/high rise block block of… … English dictionary
Street hierarchy — The street hierarchy is an urban design technique for separating automobile through traffic from developed areas. It can be seen as a hierarchy of roads that embeds the hierarchy (importance of different roads) in the network topology (the… … Wikipedia
