Word Finder - bricks

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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.

The manufacture of bricks is an important industry.

Pottery and bricks are also produced, and at Benthall, i m.

At Rishire, some miles south of Bushire, and near the summer quarters of the British resident and the British telegraph buildings, there are extensive ruins among which bricks with cuneiform inscriptions have been found, showing that the place was a very old Elamite settlement.

Petroleum and coal have been worked, and there is a rich yield of chalk, while a good quality of bricks is made from the xxii.

Gradually, as time went on, and probably with the influx of refugees from the mainland, bricks made of lagoon mud came to take the place of wattle and reeds in the construction of the houses.

The town has manufactures of bricks and tiles, and a considerable agricultural trade.

Roman bricks, dug up in the fortress, bear the inscription, Legio IV.

It consists for the most part of mud huts, but there are some houses built of sun-dried bricks.

The appropriate symbol was at first indifferently a pile of bricks or two male children, always Cancer.

The Keuper clays yield material for bricks.

It is compressed into large bricks, and costs two-thirds of a penny per pound.

Edgings may also be formed of narrow slips of sandstone flag, slate, tiles or bricks.

The industries include coalmining and the making of bricks and tiles, spades and shovels.

Among the manufactures are bricks, flour, tobacco and cigars, and carriages.

E, Magnesite bricks on which the M, The escaping products of comhot billets slide forward.

In the chief towns houses are built of mud bricks with flat roofs.

Rum, sugar, bricks, leather, furniture and extract of meat are manufactured.

The method of compressing tea into tablets 8 or bricks is unfamiliar in western Europe.

The bricks are wrapped in paper bearing hong marks, or some writing in Tibetan.

Roman bricks appear in its fabric, and premise a Roman station in the vicinity.

The mixture is slightly damped, moulded into rough bricks, dried and burned.

The principal industries include paper-making, brewing, the making of nets and twine, bricks, tiles and pottery, tanning and oil-refining, besides saltworks and seed-crushing works.

Beyond the wall line on that side vestiges of ancient buildings are visible in various directions, and the plain is strewn with fragments of bricks, tiles and rubbish.

All the buildings, both public and private, are constructed of furnaceburnt bricks of a yellowish-red colour, principally derived from the ruins of other places, chiefly Madain (Ctesiphon), Wasit and Babylon, which have been plundered at various times to furnish materials for the construction of Bagdad.

Inscribed bricks found in the neighbourhood seem to connect this ruin with Kurigalzu, king of Babylon about 1300 B.C..

Within the limits of the city itself, on the west bank of the Tigris, are the remains of a quay, first observed by Sir Henry Rawlinson, at a period of low water, in 1849, built of bricks laid in bitumen, and bearing an inscription of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

The Cambodians show skill in working gold and silver; earthenware, bricks, mats, fans and silk and cotton fabrics, are also produced to some small extent, but fishing and the cultivation of rice and in a minor degree of tobacco, coffee, cotton, pepper, indigo, maize, tea and sugar are the only industries worthy of the name.

The principal exports are Portland stone, bricks and tiles and provisions, and the imports are coal, timber, garden and dairy produce and wine.

Flint has important manufacturing interests, its chief manufactures being automobiles, wagons, carriages - Flint is called "the vehicle city," - flour, woollen goods, iron goods, cigars, beer, and bricks and tiles; and its grain trade is of considerable importance.

The place does a considerable trade in the making of bricks, bottles, earthenware, pottery, tiles and paper.

The system continued steadily down to 1899, by which time railways, dynamite, spirits, iron, sugar, wool, bricks, jam, paper and a number of other things were all of them articles of monopoly.

The department imports coal, lime, stone, salt, raw sulphur, skins and timber and exports agricultural and mineral products, bricks and tiles, and other manufactured goods.

The city's chief interest is in the tobacco industry; it has also considerable trade in other agricultural products and in coal; and its manufactures include carriages and wagons, bricks, lime, flour and dressed lumber.

The city has cotton-compresses and cotton-gins, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, flour, cement blocks, pressed bricks, canned goods, foundry products, waggon-beds and creamery products.

Much of the material was obtained from the destroyed houses of the unfortunate Jews, but the stone for the bulwarks was obtained from Caen, and the small bricks or tiles from Flanders.

The ground was originally a Roman Cemetery, and about the year 1576 bricks were largely made from the clayey earth, the recollection of which is kept alive in the name of Brick Lane.

The principal industries are the manufacture of sackings, ropes, bricks, coarse earthenware, terra-cotta, tobacco-pipes and leather.

Midway in the mound is a platform of large bricks stamped with the names of Sargon of Akkad and his son Naram-Sin (3800 B.C.); as the debris above them is 34 ft.

Bricks were also employed in later times; their form is peculiar to this place, each having two rectangular channels on one side, and being about 15 in.

Again, the construction of electric furnaces may often be exceedingly crude and simple; in the carborundum furnace, for example, the outer walls are of loosely piled bricks, and in one type of furnace the charge is simply heaped on the ground around the carbon resistance used for heating, without containing-walls of any kind.

Ottawa has an important trade in grain and live-stock; soft coal and natural gas are found in the vicinity; the manufactures include flour, windmills, wire-fences, furniture, bricks, brooms and foundry products.

Among manufactures are plate glass and bottles, table ware, paper, bricks, iron and steel articles, and steel sheets and billets.

Albert Lea is a railway and manufacturing centre of considerable importance, has grain elevators and foundries and machine shops, and manufactures bricks, tiles, carriages, wagons, flour, corsets, refrigerators and woollen goods.

Bituminous coal, natural gas and oil abound in the vicinity; the river provides excellent water-power; the borough is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance, its products including iron and steel bridges, boilers, steam drills, carriages, saws, files, axes, shovels, wire netting, stoves, glass-ware, scales, chemicals, pottery, cork, decorative tile, bricks and typewriters.

Manzanares has manufactures of soap, bricks and pottery, and an active trade in wheat, wine, spirits, aniseed and saffron.

The industries include shipbuilding, and the manufacture of saddlery and other leather products, bricks and tile, rum, beer, chocolate and coco-nut oil.

The plants are slow growers and must have plenty of sun heat; they require sandy loam with a mixture of sand and bricks finely broken and must be kept dry in winter.

Not merely were artistic sculptures and bas-reliefs found that demonstrated a high development of artistic genius, but great libraries were soon revealed, - books consisting of bricks of various sizes, or of cylinders of the same material, inscribed while in the state of clay with curious characters which became indelible when baking transformed the clay into brick.

This temple had been razed and a fortress built upon its ruins, in the Greek or Seleucid period, some of the bricks found bearing the inscription in Aramaic and Greek of a certain Hadad-nadin-akhe, king of a small Babylonian kingdom.

Its manufactures are shoes, bricks, lumber, ice, agricultural implements, wagons and handles.