brick

Definition of brick in English English dictionary: An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete; To build with bricks
The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and to share the weight with the prids.; A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug; To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick
installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.; To make into bricks
The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.; To hit someone using a brick; A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object
We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.; Made of brick(s)
All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney.; A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building
This wall is made of bricks.; Something shaped like a brick
a plastic explosive brick.; To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"; A helpful and reliable person
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.; Considered collectively, as a building material
This house is made of brick.; {a} made or built of brick; {v} to lay, form, or wall up, with bricks; {n} clay with sand and water, shaperd in a mold, a loaf like a brick; a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy; A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick; to come down on somebody like a ton of bricks: see ton. brick off to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks. Small building unit in the form of a rectangular block, first produced in a sun-dried form at least 6,000 years ago. Clay, the basic ingredient, is mined from open pits, formed, and then fired in a kiln to produce strength, hardness, and heat resistance. Brick was the chief building material in the ancient Near East. Its versatility was expanded in ancient Rome by improvements in manufacture and by new techniques of bonding. Brick came to be widely used in Western Europe for the protection it offered against fire. See also masonry, mortar; An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has been rendered non-functional and, usually, non-repairable; Bricks are rectangular blocks of baked clay used for building walls, which are usually red or brown. Brick is the material made up of these blocks. She built bookshelves out of bricks and planks. a tiny garden surrounded by high brick walls; Made of brick; a mobile phone, especially one that is large and/or heavy relative to current models; Term of endearment, especially towards a subject who has performed a favour of an act of kindness without expectation of reciprocity; Bricks are rectangular building blocks made from clay mixed with water and baked hard; when the throwoff (pull) lands outside the endzone; Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick; (hey, I really did not make this up, honest!); A hard, errant shot that caroms wildly off the basket or backboard; A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc; America; Slang term for the last stone of an end; To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks; {i} building block; block; generous person, good person; a solid masonry rectangular block made from clay and/or shale and burned (or fired) in a kiln The plural of brick may be bricks or brick; An external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in a power plug. A power brick; rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy; A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket; A block of clay which has been molded and baked, used with cement to build; Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread); A solid masonry unit of clay or shale, formed into a rectangular prism while plastic and burned or fired in a kiln that may have cores or cells comprising of less than 25% of the cross sectional area; {f} close or pave with bricks, build with bricks; prepare bricks; A colloquial name for a hand-held radiotelephone unit; is a set of voxels that is small enough to be cached by underlying hardware, generally texture memory; Rectangular blocks of clay, molded and fired in a kiln, used for building Four of the basic types are: building brick, firebrick, paving brick and facing brick; rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material; A kilogram-sized slab or cube of compressed pot; {s} made from bricks; resembling a brick; Soil is shaped in a mould and burnt slowly to harden Used to build walls in building; A building material usually made from clay, molded as a rectangular block, and baked or burned in a kiln; A blank, or (especially in low or high-low games) a card that counterfeits one's hand "Brick" is more often heard in seven card stud, while "blank" is more appropriate to hold'em, probably because a brick is a personal thing, while a blank is a community thing; A poor shot, usually thrown on a low trajectory, that bounces hard off the rim or backboard; molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp; If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall, you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you. After that my career just seemed to hit a brick wall; To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them; Pressed block of marijuana, opium, or morphine for bulk shipment; To be in a high state of anxiety: "Bricking it"; To construct with bricks; Building material made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln; A hardened block of mud, clay, etc, used for building; You can use bricks and mortar to refer to houses and other buildings, especially when they are considered as an investment. As an investment, bricks and mortar are not what they were; To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually unrepareable, resulting in a device with a utility on par with a masonry brick; - many bundled packs of firecrackers which resembles a red brick; If you are banging your head against a brick wall, what you are saying or doing is not having any effect although you keep saying or doing it. I wanted to sort out this problem with him, but it was like banging my head against a brick wall; a large 13 oz unit of FIMO®
brick by brick: to create or build something in a steady, step-by-step fashion
brick red: Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks
brick red: warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks
brick red colour:.
brick shithouse: An article built more robustly than its function requires; implies an element of indestructability
brick shithouse: A person with a well-developed body
She looked really fine, a bonafide brick shithouse.
brick shithouses: plural form of brick shithouse
Two razor-scalped brick shithouses in suits, who looked like bouncers at a Hell's Angels dance, started staring at us.
brick up: To block by masonry, particularly using bricks
The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.
brick veneer: A type of house construction which uses a timber frame for its structure (ie. the roof is held up by timber framing) but has bricks built up around the outside walls. The idea is to give the solid look of a brick building, but with a cheaper construction of merely decorative brickwork
brick veneers: plural form of brick veneer
brick wall: An obstacle
They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973. —.
brick walls: plural form of brick wall
brick-tea: A mass of tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick; a common Russian import and formerly used for barter in Mongolia
Some of them were men from Ladakh, said Lalun, when the last had gone. They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar..
brick-and-mortar: Refers to traditional, physical, as opposed to digital, structures and vehicles-factories, warehouses, trucks, and retail outlets A brick-and-mortar company is one with little or no significant Web presence
brick-and-mortar location: Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. Used to contrast an internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure
brick-and-mortar: Term used to identify traditional firms doing business the old-fashioned way, from a physical storefront
brick-and-mortar retailer: Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. Used to contrast an internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure
Brick Lane: a road in the East End of London, which has a Sunday street market and many Indian restaurants which serve curry dishes
brick cheese: {i} brick-shaped form semi-soft American cheese made from whole milk of cows
brick cheese: semisoft sweet American cheese from whole milk in a brick form
brick field: {i} brickfield, brickyard, factory where bricks are made
brick in: wall up with brick
brick red: a brownish red colour red
brick red: brownish-red
brick red: a bright reddish brown color
brick trowel: a trowel used in masonry
brick up: {f} close or pave with bricks, build with bricks
brick-and-mortar: A traditional business operation that commonly deals with its customers face-to-face in an office or store that the business owns or rents (e g a retail store or a bank branch) Web-based businesses usually have lower costs and greater flexibility than brick-and-mortar operations
brick-and-mortar: Nickname for a traditional business, refers to its physical location in a building
air brick: A brick size block with holes which is embedded in a wall to allow ventilation through it
built like a brick shithouse: Having an athletic or muscular body; often implying also having large breasts and/or an attractive body. "Over built" for the purpose. More effectively, or handsomely built than is strictly necessary
built like a brick shithouse: Exceptionally well constructed; strong or tough
built like a brick shithouse: Having a muscular body, particularly with well developed muscles of the chest and arms
fire brick: Of a bright red colour
fire brick: A bright red colour
fire brick colour:.
fire brick: Alternative form of firebrick
flying brick: an aircraft which is too heavy and lacks sufficient power to be maneuvered easily
one brick short of a full load: not mentally sound; insane
I feel fine today, but that gentleman conversing with the house plant there may be one brick short of a full load.
one brick short of a full load: stupid
You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet.
red brick universities: plural form of red brick university
red brick university: any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city
It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees - a bachelor’s from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved. -- Adrian Turpin, Financial Times, Not tonight darling, I'm online, March 31, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c65a4966-bfbb-11da-939f-0000779e2340%2C_i_rssPage=daa36138-ce4f-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html.
shat a brick: Simple past tense and past participle of shit a brick
shit a brick: To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment
She was thunderstruck when she came face to face with the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. At her age, and in that same place, my big brother Bernie, a born scientist who can't draw or paint for sour apples, would have shit an even bigger brick. Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake'', 1997.
shits a brick: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shit a brick
shitted a brick: Simple past tense and past participle of shit a brick
shitting a brick: Present participle of shit a brick
thick as a brick: stupid; slow to learn or understand
yellow brick road: A proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams
But for Clinton the yellow brick road that led inevitably to the Democratic nomination has suddenly become a little bumpy. -.
yellow-brick road: Alternative form of yellow brick road
bricking: {n} imitation of a brick wall on plaster
bricks: (Ticaret) Bricks-and-clicks is a business model by which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. It is also known as click-and-mortar or clicks-and-bricks, as well as bricks, clicks and flips, flips referring to catalogs
hit the brick: (deyim) If you hit the brick when you are trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress
red-brick: (of a British university) founded in the late 19th or early 20th century and with buildings of brick, as distinct from the older universities built of stone
yellow brick road: (Edebiyat) The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz based on the novel gave it the name by which it is better known, the yellow-brick road. In both novel and movie, it is the path which Dorothy is instructed to follow from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City in order to seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz
arch brick: A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch
as dry as a brick: totally dry
bricked: past of brick
bricking: present participle of brick
bricks: and mortar -refers to a physical building This term was popularized by on-line shopping
bricks: The name for the inter-GUI data transfer framework (& library) that is part of Cartwheel [ not yet implemented ]
bricks: One of the oldest building materials, brick is based on a mix of clay with silt and sand pressed in molds and then burned in a kiln, which gives the characteristic slightly glazed finish Standard brick sizes vary from country to country and over the years In mainland Europe, for example, bricks are often more slender than those commonly used in the USA and Britain
bricks: The brick pillars on the left and right at the back of most courts
bricks: plural of brick
drop a brick: (Slang) err, make a mistake
fire brick: fire-resistant brick, brick which is able to withstand intense heat
knock one's head against a brick wall: try and do the impossible; hit one's head against the side of a building
ran his head against a brick wall: ran up against an obstacle, was stopped in his tracks
red-brick: of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century

brick

Hyphenation

Brick

Turkish pronunciation

brîk

Synonyms

cube, cinder block, slab, stone

Antonyms

slang, unbrick

Pronunciation

/ˈbrək/ /ˈbrɪk/

Etymology

() Recorded since 1416, from Old French briche, probably from a Germanic source akin to Middle Dutch bricke "a tile", literally "a broken piece", from the verbal root of break