bricknoun
uk/brɪk/us/brɪk/brick noun (BUILDING BLOCK)
B2 [ C ] a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses:
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- The house has a small backyard, surrounded by a high brick wall.
- The boundary of the car park is delineated by a low brick wall.
- The plaster on the walls has been removed to expose the original bricks underneath.
- We saw rioters pelting police with bricks and bottles.
- A group of tiny brick houses is tucked away behind the factory.
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- boarding
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hard core
- hardboard
- lacquer
- limestone
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- screed
- shingle
- siding
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brick noun (ELECTRONIC DEVICE)
informal an electronic device, such as a smartphone, that cannot be used at all:
informal an early mobile phone that was thick and heavy compared to newer phones:
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Computer hardware
- 3-D printer
- agnostic
- blackberry
- bubblejet
- codec
- Ctrl (key)
- handheld
- Macintosh
- micro
- microcomputer
- mouse
- personal organizer
- ram
- storage device
- tablet
- toggle
- trackball
- underscore
- VDT
- word processor
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brick noun (GOOD PERSON)
[ C usually singular ] old-fashioned or humorous a very helpful and kind person who can be trusted:
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People having good qualities
- advertisement
- altruism
- angel
- be the salt of the earth idiom
- bunch
- charmer
- dear
- enchantress
- gem
- not be as black as you are painted idiom
- paragon
- poppet
- poster child
- saint
- salt
- softie
- sweetheart
- sweetie
- the real deal
- treasure
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Idiom(s)
brickverb
uk/brɪk/us/brɪk/[ I or T ] informal to cause a problem in an electronic device so that it cannot be used at all; to develop a problem like this:
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- kaput
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- shopworn
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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