brick
(noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
brick
(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Possibly from Brych, an East European surname with the same pronunciation.
Brick (plural Bricks)
A surname.
brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)
(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc, used for building.
(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
(basketball, slang) 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.
(informal) 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.
(computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
The colour brick red.
(slang) One kilo of cocaine.
brick (not comparable)
(colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.
brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)
To build with bricks.
To make into bricks.
(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
(computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
• (technology, slang: revert a device to nonoperational state): unbrick
Source: Wiktionary
Brick, n. Etym: [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger. origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hlafes brice, fr. the root of E. break. See Break.]
1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.
2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.
3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]
Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red. Brick clay, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
– Brick dust, dust of pounded or broken bricks.
– Brick earth, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
– Brick loaf, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in shape.
– Brick nogging (Arch.), rough brickwork used to fill in the spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick filling.
– Brick tea, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea, steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia. S. W. Williams.
– Brick trimmer (Arch.), a brick arch under a hearth, usually within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against accidents by fire.
– Brick trowel. See Trowel.
– Brick works, a place where bricks are made.
– Bath brick. See under Bath, a city.
– Pressed brick, bricks which, before burning, have been subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks.
Brick, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking.]
1. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
2. 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. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
