Found 4 items, similar to Brick.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: brick
bata
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: brick
bata, batu bata, menemboki, orang baik
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: brick
brick
n 1: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln;
used as a building or paving material
2: a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Brick
Brick
\Brick\ (br[i^]k), n. [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger.
origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique
piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[=a]fes brice, fr. the
root of E. break. See
Break.]
1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded
into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried,
or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
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The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
--Layard.
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2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
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Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
--Weale.
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3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread).
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4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
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“He 's a dear little brick.” --Thackeray.
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To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]
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Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
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Brick clay, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
Brick dust, dust of pounded or broken bricks.
Brick earth, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making,
bricks.
Brick loaf, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in
shape.
Brick nogging (Arch.), rough brickwork used to fill in the
spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick
filling.
Brick tea, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea,
steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form
of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia. --S.
W. Williams.
Brick trimmer (Arch.), a brick arch under a hearth, usually
within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against
accidents by fire.
Brick trowel. See
Trowel.
Brick works, a place where bricks are made.
Bath brick. See under
Bath, a city.
Pressed brick, bricks which, before burning, have been
subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections
of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks.
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Brick
\Brick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bricking.]
1. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or
construct with bricks.
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2. To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing
plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge
tool, and pointing them.
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To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
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