Word Finder - brick

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A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

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This wall is made of bricks.

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Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

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This house is made of brick.

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Something shaped like a brick.

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a plastic explosive brick

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A helpful and reliable person.

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Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.

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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.

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We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.

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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.

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An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

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A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

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A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

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The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.

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The colour brick red.

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One kilo of cocaine.

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To build with bricks.

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To make into bricks.

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To hit someone or something with a brick.

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To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

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My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.

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(of weather) Extremely cold.

His heart felt like a brick in his stomach.

He danced out of the room singing, "She's a Brick House".

A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove.

Many of the houses are of brick decorated with glazed tiles.

He was running into more brick walls than an overworked mason.

I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite.

She sensed a brick wall and hesitated, considering.

Dumb as a brick, but in the bedroom, my God–amaaaaazing!

A red brick municipal building stood at the far end of the street ahead of us.

All my charm and diplomacy is hitting a brick wall.

Twelve dollars later I was let off at a shabby red brick building in a section of town where no tour busses stop.

The beds made partly of old mushroom-bed dung often contain sufficient spawn to yield a crop, without the introduction of brick or cake spawn, but it is advisable to spawn them in the regular way.

Cannock has tool, boiler, brick and tile works.

The south pavilion of the present house is the original brick building, one and a half storeys high, first occupied by Jefferson in 1770.

The brick and opus reticulatum facing of the walls is especially fine.

The manufactures comprise sheet-iron, boilers, zinc, brick and tiles, paraffin, petroleum, soap and candles.

As a river-port and the terminus of railways from Varna and from Sofia via Trnovo, it has much commercial importance; and it possesses tobacco and cigarette factories, soap-works, breweries, aerated water factories, dyeworks, tanneries, sawmills, brick and tile works and a celebrated pottery.

It is a quiet, typically Dutch town, with its old brick houses and tree-bordered canals.

On the south side of the façade is a large brick campanile, and the foundations of another may be seen on the north.

Francesco, probably the earliest Franciscan church in northern Italy (1230-1298; now a prison), is a Gothic building in brick with a fine rose-window.

The former Royal Dockyard was made over to the War Office in 1872 and converted into stores, wharves for the loading of troopships, &c. The Royal Artillery Barracks, facing Woolwich Common, originally erected in 1775, has been greatly extended at different times, and consists of six ranges of Brick building, including a church in the Italian Gothic style erected in 1863, a theatre, and a library in connexion with the officers' mess-room.

Near Woolwich Common there are brick and tile kilns and sand and chalk pits, and there are extensive marketgardens in the locality.

Berhampur was fixed upon after the battle of Plassey as the site of the chief military station for Bengal; and a huge square of brick barracks was erected in 1767, at a cost of 30o,000.

De Granier died in September 1602, and the new bishop entered on the administration of his vast diocese, which, as a contemporary says, "he found brick and left marble."

On the Constantins platz stands the magnificent brick basilica, probably of the age of Constantine, though the south and east walls are modern.

The houses in many instances are built of stone (a circumstance which indicates the former wealth of the city, as the material had to be brought from a very considerable distance); and remains of a brick wall, 3 m.

The exterior brick walls are divided by shallow arches and pilasters, as in other churches of Ravenna.

The 15th-century castle in the north-east corner of the town erected by the Venetians is a picturesque brick building.

Parkersburg is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. Oil, coal, natural gas and fire-clay abound in the neighbouring region, and the city is engaged in the refining of oil and the manufacture of pottery, brick and tile, glass, lumber, furniture, flour, steel, and foundry and machine-shop products.

The interior is of brick, plastered and decorated with frescoes.

On the side of the Piazza del Comune opposite to the cathedral are two 13th-century Gothic palaces in brick, the Palazzo Comunale and the former Palazzo dei Giureconsulti, now the seat of the commissioners for the water regulation of the district.

While stone is the material used in the construction of the majority of great buildings of London, some modern examples (notably the Westminster Roman Catholic cathedral) are of red brick with stone dressings; and brick is in commonest use for general domestic building.

Among the manufactures are zinc spelter-there are large smelters here-clay products (chiefly vitrified brick, sewer pipe and tile; the clay being obtained from a great underlying bed of shale), blasting powder, packinghouse products and planing-mill products.

A third tall narrow brick bell tower (with bell still in place) rises behind the school entrance.

It consists of a single story surface brick blockhouse, now partly hidden by trees and bushes.

On all his estates Pierre saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon to be opened.

He did not know that the brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper.

The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.

On all sides there were waste spaces with only stoves and chimney stacks still standing, and here and there the blackened walls of some brick houses.

The church of St Nicholas was built of brick in 1821; and there are a town hall and a custom-house.

The town possesses breweries, tanneries, malthouses, flour-mills, saw-mills, brick and tile works, potteries and an iron foundry; its trade in butter is considerable.

Brick, tile, sewer-pipe, and hydraulic cement are manufactured, and there are railway repair shops.

In the vicinity are large deposits of coal, of glass-sand, and of clay suitable for brick and tile.

The city's manufactures include glass, brick, tile, carriages and wagons, agricultural implements, pianos and organs and cigars.

Rose Hall, in the vicinity, is a moated manor of brick, of the 16th century.

Printing works, malting, brick and tile, and agricultural implement works are the chief industries.

Smith and fifty-nine others lost their lives; and St Paul's Church, where Jefferson Davis was attending services, on the 2nd of April 1865, when he received news from 1 As built in Richmond in 1845 by Luther Libby, it was a brick structure, three storeys high in front and four in the rear.

The Palazzo del Podesta, now a private house, is a brick building of the 15th century.

Brick and more rarely stone took the place of wood and wattle.

But in the 13th century the Venetians began to pave the more frequented streets with brick.