英语词汇“brick-shaped”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

brick-shaped

释义

brick /brik/

noun

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

adjective

Made of brick or bricks
Of the colour of brick, brick-red

transitive verb

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

ORIGIN: Fr brique, from the same root as break¹

brickˈen adjective (obsolete)

Made of brick

brickˈie noun (informal)

A bricklayer

brickˈing noun

Brickwork
Imitation brickwork

brickˈy adjective

Like or of brick

brickˈbat noun

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

brickˈclay noun

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

brickˈ-dust noun

Powdered brick
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

brickˈ-shaped adjective

Of the shape of a standard brick

brickˈ-tea noun

Tea pressed into cakes

brickˈwork noun

Work constructed in brick
Bricklaying

brickˈworks noun

A factory producing bricks

brickˈyard noun

A brickfield

drop a brick

To say or do something horrifyingly tactless or indiscreet

like a ton of bricks

Heavily and promptly

like banging (or knocking) one's head against a brick wall

Said of a laborious but unrewarding attempt, eg to persuade, inform, etc

make bricks without straw

To try to do a piece of work without the materials necessary for it
To make something that will not last

see through a brick wall

To be unusually perspicacious

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