BUILDING BLOCK


Meaning of BUILDING BLOCK in English

(~s)

If you describe something as a ~ of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.

...molecules that are the ~s of all life on earth.

N-COUNT: usu with supp

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .