brick

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
3. Something shaped like a brick.
4. (slang) A helpful and reliable person.
5. (slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
6. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
7. (slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
8. (slang) A projectile.
9. A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
10. (slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
11. The colour brick red.
12. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

Adj

Extremely cold.

Verb

1. To build, line, or form with bricks.
2. To make into bricks.
3. (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
4. (slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
5. (slang) To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.
6. (slang) To blunder; to screw up.

Synonyms

block

building block

tile

brick-shaped

clinker

stick

mold

mud brick

cake

🍰

ingot

diamond

erect

fragment

hose

lay bricks

mason

piece

pig

🐖

shattered

slab

stone

🪨

tessera

toff

trump

wreck

square shooter

paving material

straight shooter

brick factory

adobe

brick moth

basin

blockhead

brickbat

brick up

briquette

build

cast

cement

clod

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɹɪk/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: brik

Cognate with neerlandès: brik

Cognate with francès antic: briche

Cognate with francès: brique

In summary

From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.

Frases

Eight towers made of brick surrounded the castle .