brick
砖头,砖块,砖,砖瓦
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Definitions
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- : a 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 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches, red, brown, or yellow in color.
- : such blocks collectively.
- : the material of which such blocks are made.
- : any block or bar having a similar size and shape: a gold brick; an ice-cream brick.
- : the length of a brick as a measure of thickness, as of a wall: one and a half bricks thick.
- : Informal. an admirably good or generous person.
- : Informal. an electronic device that has become completely nonfunctional.
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- : to pave, line, wall, fill, or build with brick.
- : Informal. to cause to become completely nonfunctional: I bricked my phone while doing the upgrade.
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- : made of, constructed with, or resembling bricks.
Phrases
- bricks and mortar
- bricks shy of a load
- drop a brick
- hit the bricks
- like a cat on a hot brick
- like a ton of bricks
- make bricks without straw
- run into a stone (brick) wall
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
That’s a tall order right now for many brick-and-mortar retailers that were already under pressure and watched foot traffic disappear entirely as the country largely shut down in March in response to the pandemic threat.
Human bones were found buried beneath the platforms, including a stillborn foetus enclosed in a brick.
Surprisingly, there aren’t many things I miss about a sticks-and-bricks home.
HOUSTON — On an afternoon in mid-June, Analleli Solis was walking home from her brother’s house just down the street when she noticed someone she didn’t know retreating from the front door of her modest brick home.
To check if this coherence time was really caused by the natural radiation, they built a giant shield out of lead brick that could block background radiation to see what happened when the qubits were isolated.
It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
The industry lore is downright jaw-dropping in the details of the cons known as “brick-in-box” returns.
Tallinn feels palpably Scandinavian with its polished old-town brick, seaside positioning and glut of cool cafes.
Once a cadet dropped a brick from a third-story barracks window that barely missed Jackson.
Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.
To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.
Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.
All the large engines are in this way, and we do not find the door or front plate get hot, as they are lined with brick.
The boiler was placed underneath the engine, the fire under it, with brick flues.