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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
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
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
paved \paved\ adj.
1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
[Narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
tarmacadam; blacktopped, brick, cobblestone,
cobblestoned] [Ant: unpaved]
Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed
[Australian].
[WordNet 1.5]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
[Slang] "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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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5. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
brick
n.
1. A piece of equipment that has been programmed or configured into a hung
, wedged,unusable state. Especially used to describe what happens to
devices like routers or PDAs that run from firmware when the firmware image
is damaged or its settings are somehow patched to impossible values. This
term usually implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be
unbricked by performing a hard reset or some other drastic operation.
Sometimes verbed: ?Yeah, I bricked the router because I forgot about adding
in the new access-list.?.
2. An outboard power transformer of the kind associated with laptops,
modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the
modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the older and obnoxious
type that plug directly into wall or barrier strip.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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