Blocker

Blocker can mean any of the following:

Surname

  • Blocker (surname)
  • Medicine

  • Receptor antagonist, such as an alpha blocker or beta blocker, that blocks molecular attachment
  • Optics

  • The inverse of a filter (optics). Instead of blocking everything except target color(s) like a filter does, a blocker lets everything else pass and blocks only the color(s) specified
  • Corporations

  • Blocker corporation
  • Sports

  • Blocker (ice hockey)
  • The nickname of Steve Roach, Australian rugby league footballer
  • Blocker (cricket), slang for a defensive-minded batsman in cricket
  • Blocker, is a position in roller derby
  • Fiction

  • Blocker (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Blocker (ice hockey)

    The goalie blocker is a rectangular piece of equipment worn by ice and roller hockey goaltenders. It is generally worn on the dominant hand.

    The blocker is a close-fitting glove augmented on the back of the hand, wrist and part of the forearm by a rectangular "block" of padding and fabric (leather or synthetic). Goaltenders hold their stick in that hand and use the padded rectangle to block shots -- bouncing them away from the net, as opposed to holding them in the catching glove. Experienced goalies can "steer" the shot by angling the blocker as the puck strikes. The padding also serves to protect the hand and lower forearm of the goaltender.

    Notes

  • ^1 A blocker may also be referred to as a 'waffle' or 'waffle-board' stemming from the visual appearance of the blocker in pre-modern ice hockey equipment era.
  • ^2 Typically a right-handed person would wear the blocker glove on the dominant, right hand. For left-handed persons, the blocker would be worn on the dominant, left-hand. Typically, blockers are manufactured for right-handed players, this is referred to as a standard setup. To avoid confusion, a left-handed player's equipment setup may sometimes be referred to as 'full-right' setup.
  • Battleforce 2000

    Battleforce 2000 is a fictional sub-team from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline and comic books. First released in late 1987 (with a final vehicle and member released in 1989), they represent a hi-tech unit of the Joes using experimental weaponry under battlefield conditions.

    Toys

    The toy line was made up of seven action figures, with the six from 1987 being packaged in both single and two-packs. All but one of the characters was assigned as the primary driver of a hi-tech vehicle, which was sold separately. Dodger was repainted and released as part of the Sonic Fighters line in 1990.

    A part of six of the vehicles can be combined to form a small hi-tech fortress called the Future Fortress, which consisted of secondary parts that merely sat next to one another, with no interlocking pieces. Most of the vehicles have a white, silver, grey and dark blue color scheme. An exception is the Pulverizer, the 1989 addition to the series, which does not have a piece that can be combined with the fortress.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Fraught

    by: Be'lakor

    Searching, the abstract colours reason
    But I persist to fail in the absence of faith
    Cycles bound by throes of attrition
    Oft united, yet surely more is lost in time
    Beyond fathom, billions firing
    Flashes burn and spew prostrate
    Wisped monads from crimson puncture
    Our bonds are broken, all meaning sundered
    Striving for constant reduction
    Bursting from the pit beneath
    Unyielding yet beyond the grasp
    Of scale and form
    Nothingness born
    Fleetingly
    Of sprawl and flame
    From nothing it came
    Seemingly
    The gap between us tears apart
    Impel our end
    Layers surge and strip away
    Cast into nought
    Of matter torn
    As eons I mourn
    Achingly
    Of atoms maimed
    As epochs are tamed
    Blindingly
    In that final absence,




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