brick /brik/

1. Baked clay
2. A shaped block of baked clay, generally rectangular in shape (the standard dimensions being about 23cm×11.5cm×6.5cm (9×41/2×3in))
3. A brick-shaped block of other material, often compressed
4. A child's building block of wood, etc
5. A loaf or a bun more or less in the shape of a brick
6. The colour of brick, brick-red
7. An old-fashioned bulky mobile phone (informal)
8. A helpful, supportive, kind person (informal)

1. Made of brick or bricks
2. Of the colour of brick, brick-red

1. To fill or wall (in, up, etc) with brick
2. To cover with brick or an appearance of brick

brickˈen adjective (obsolete)

Made of brick

brickˈie noun (informal)

A bricklayer

brickˈing noun

1. Brickwork
2. Imitation brickwork

brickˈy adjective

Like or of brick

brickˈbat noun

1. A piece of brick, esp if used as a missile
2. A critical remark

brickˈclay noun

1. A clay containing sand and a good deal of iron
2. Any clay, loam or earth used for brickmaking

brickˈ-dust noun

1. Powdered brick
2. The colour of powdered red brick

brickˈ-earth noun

A clayey silt or loam used for brickmaking

brickˈfield noun

A place where bricks are made

brickˈfielder noun (Aust)

A hot dry wind (orig one bringing dust from the brickfields of Sydney suburbs)

brickˈ-kiln noun

A kiln in which bricks are made

brickˈlayer noun

In the building trade, a person who lays and builds with bricks

brickˈlaying noun

brickˈmaker noun

brickˈmaking noun

brickˈ-nog or brickˈ-nogging see nog²

brick-redˈ adjective

Of the colour of an ordinary red brick

bricksˈ-and-morˈtar adjective

(of a commercial enterprise, etc) not using the Internet to conduct its business

• imidazole
• imidazoles
• imide
• imides
• imidic
• imine
• IMinE
• imines
• imipramine
• imipramines
• imit.
• imitabilities
• imitability
• imitable
• imitableness
• imitablenesses
• imitancies
• imitancy
• imitant
• imitants
• imitate
• imitated
• imitates
• imitating
• imitation