What does brick mean?
Definitions for brick
brɪkbrick
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word brick.
Princeton's WordNet
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
Wiktionary
brick(Noun)
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
This wall is made of bricks.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
Considered collectively, as a building material.
This house is made of brick.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
Something shaped like a brick.
a plastic explosive brick
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
A helpful and reliable person.
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
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.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
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.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Noun)
a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Verb)
To build with bricks.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Verb)
To make into bricks.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Verb)
To hit someone using a brick.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Verb)
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Verb)
To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
brick(Adjective)
Made of brick(s).
All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney.
Etymology: From brique, probably from a source. Compare bricke. Cognate with the verb break.
Webster Dictionary
Brick(noun)
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
Brick(noun)
bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick
Brick(noun)
any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread)
Brick(noun)
a good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick
Brick(verb)
to lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks
Brick(verb)
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
Freebase
Brick
A brick is a block or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction. Typically bricks are stacked together or laid as brickwork using various kinds of mortar to hold the bricks together and make a permanent structure. Bricks are typically produced in common or standard sizes in bulk quantities. They have been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials used throughout history. In the general sense, a "brick" is a standard-sized weight-bearing building unit. Bricks are laid in horizontal courses, sometimes dry and sometimes with mortar. When the term is used in this sense, the brick might be made from clay, lime-and-sand, concrete, or shaped stone. In a less clinical and more colloquial sense, bricks are made from dried earth, usually from clay-bearing subsoil. In some cases, such as adobe, the brick is merely dried. More commonly it is fired in a kiln of some sort to form a true ceramic.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brick
brik, n. an oblong or square piece of burned clay: a loaf of bread in the shape of a brick: (slang) a reliable friend, a good fellow.—v.t. to lay or pave with brick.—ns. Brick′bat, a piece of brick; Brick′clay, a clay used in making bricks; Brick′-dust, dust made by pounding bricks, a colour like that of brick-dust; Brick′-earth, earth used in making bricks; Brick′-field, a place where bricks are made; Brick′-kiln, a kiln in which bricks are burned; Brick′layer, one who lays or builds with bricks; Brick′laying; Brick′maker, one whose trade is to make bricks; Brick′-tea, tea pressed into cakes; Brick′-work, a structure formed of bricks.—Like a brick, with good-will. [Fr. brique, from root of Break.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
brick
1. A piece of equipment that has been programmed or configured into a hung, wedged,unusable state. Especially used to describe what happens to devices like routers or PDAs that run from firmware when the firmware image is damaged or its settings are somehow patched to impossible values. This term usually implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be unbricked by performing a hard reset or some other drastic operation. Sometimes verbed: “Yeah, I bricked the router because I forgot about adding in the new access-list.”.2. An outboard power transformer of the kind associated with laptops, modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the older and obnoxious type that plug directly into wall or barrier strip.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
BRICK
An admirable person made of the right sort of clay and possessing plenty of sand. What your friends call you before you go to the wall--but never afterward.
Rap Dictionary
brick(adjective)
Very cold.
brick(adjective)
To punch.
brick(adjective)
An amount of cocaine.
brick(adjective)
A word that other gangs from People's Nation use that dont like Gangster Discilples (G.D.)from Folk Nation
brick(noun)
brick (brik) n.
brick(noun)
a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note: 'I got mo bricks in da bank...' Dem Frachize Boys feat. Da Brat and Bow Wow (I Think They Like Me)
Editors Contribution
brick
A type of material.
The brick on the external of the house was amazing.
Submitted by MaryC on February 21, 2020
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brick' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3726
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brick' in Nouns Frequency: #1457
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of brick in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of brick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of brick in a Sentence
House is usually big and is made up of largely building materials like brick, mortar and concrete; Home is normally small and is made up of only love which has all power & strength to bond together all members to make them one family complete.
There is no alternative to a brick house.
It is like talking to a brick wall, i applied for a supervisor job. Then 350 other people did the same - people that used to earn much higher salaries. Managers are competing against supervisors and analysts.
I don't see brick and mortar stores seeing a big benefit from this ruling vis-a-vis their key online competitors, large online retailers who compete with the likes of Walmart and Target have already been collecting and remitting sales tax for some time now because they saw the writing on the wall.
Brick-and-mortar retailers are fighting over an ephemeral slice of a shrinking pie.
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