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brick  (brk)

n.

1. pl. bricks or brick A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.

2. An object shaped like such a block: a brick of cheese.

3. Informal A helpful, reliable person.

tr.v. bricked, brick·ing, bricks

1. To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

2. To close or wall with brick: bricked up the windows of the old house.

Idiom:

drop a brick Informal

To make a clumsy social error.

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[Middle English brike, from Middle Dutch bricke.]

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bricky adj.

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brick

Noun

1. a rectangular block of baked or dried clay, used in building construction

2. the material used to make such blocks

3. any rectangular block: a brick of ice cream

4. bricks collectively

5. Informal a reliable, trustworthy, or helpful person

6. drop a brick Brit & NZ informal to make a tactless or indiscreet remark

Verb

(foll. by in, up, over)to construct, line, pave, fill, or wall up with bricks: they bricked up access to the historic pillar [Middle Dutch bricke]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	brick - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material adobe brick, adobe - sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates ceramic - an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures clinker brick, clinker - a hard brick used as a paving stone firebrick - brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys cope, coping, header - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall mud brick - a brick made from baked mud building material - material used for constructing buildings clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
	2.	brick - a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy good person - a person who is good to other people

Translations

brick [brɪk] n → ladrillo

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brick [brɪk] n → brique f

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brick [brɪk] n → Ziegelstein m, Backstein m;

(of ice cream) → Block m

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brick [brɪk] n → mattone m