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noun | verb brickbrick1 /brɪk/ ●●● W3 noun ETYMOLOGYbrick1Origin: 1400-1500 French brique, from Middle Dutch bricke ► built of brick Most of the houses were built of brick. 1 [countable, uncountable] a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses, etc.: a brick wall Most of the houses were built of brick.2[countable] informal an attempt to throw the ball through the basket in basketball that fails badly3you can’t make bricks without straw used to say you cannot do a job if you do not have the necessary materials [Origin: 1400–1500 French brique, from Middle Dutch bricke] → see also bang your head against/on a (brick) wall at bang1 (5), hit a brick wall at hit1 (29), something is like talking to a brick wall at talk1 (19), hit somebody like a ton of bricks at ton (4) noun | verb brickbrick2 verb VERB TABLEbrick |
Present | I, you, we, they | brick | | he, she, it | bricks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bricked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bricked | | he, she, it | has bricked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bricked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will brick | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bricked |
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Present | I | am bricking | | he, she, it | is bricking | | you, we, they | are bricking | Past | I, he, she, it | was bricking | | you, we, they | were bricking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bricking | | he, she, it | has been bricking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bricking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bricking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bricking |
brick something off phrasal verb to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricksbrick something up/in phrasal verb to fill or close a space using bricks |