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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024brick /brɪk/USA pronunciation n. - Building(a block of) clay hardened by being burnt in a furnace and used for building, paving, etc.: [countable]He replaced the broken bricks in the fireplace.[uncountable]Our apartment building is brick on the outside.
- a block having a similar size and shape:[countable]a brick of ice cream.
- Informal TermsInformal. a helpful, friendly person.
v. - Building brick up, [~ + up + object] to build, fill in, or pave with bricks:They bricked up the hole in the wall.
adj. - Buildingmade of or constructed with bricks:a brick wall.
Idioms- Idioms like a ton of bricks, with sudden or powerful weight or force:The news hit him like a ton of bricks.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024brick (brik),USA pronunciation n. - Buildinga block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2¼ × 33⁄4 × 8 in. (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- Buildingsuch blocks collectively.
- Buildingthe material of which such blocks are made.
- any block or bar having a similar size and shape:a gold brick; an ice-cream brick.
- Weights and Measures, Buildingthe length of a brick as a measure of thickness, as of a wall:one and a half bricks thick.
- Informal Termsan admirably good or generous person.
- Idioms drop a brick, to make a social gaffe or blunder, esp. an indiscreet remark.
- Idioms hit the bricks:
- to walk the streets, esp. as an unemployed or homeless person.
- to go on strike:With contract talks stalled, workers are threatening to hit the bricks.Also, take to the bricks.
- Idioms make bricks without straw:
- to plan or act on a false premise or unrealistic basis.
- to create something that will not last:To form governments without the consent of the people is to make bricks without straw.
- to perform a task despite the lack of necessary materials.
v.t. - to pave, line, wall, fill, or build with brick.
adj. - made of, constructed with, or resembling bricks.
- Middle Dutch bricke; akin to break
- late Middle English brike 1400–50
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