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brick

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for brick.

Editorial note

One more part of the reason is that they usually build the homes themselves, and its rewarding to see the house go up brick by brick - visual progress is being made.

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Quick take

The colour brick red.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of brick gathered in one view.

noun

The colour brick red.

noun

A surname.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brick.

noun

The colour brick red.

noun

A surname.

noun

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

noun

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

Example sentences

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One more part of the reason is that they usually build the homes themselves, and its rewarding to see the house go up brick by brick - visual progress is being made.

2

The brick is also barely warm, so that's nice:) If you want to use a smaller charger, it will also work.

3

Even in the most rural areas, people make houses literally brick by brick (buying 1-2 bricks at a time) instead of using shipping containers for housing.

4

What's cool is, if you need to know, there's not a weird brick wall in your way.

5

A block from Temple Uni a girl was hit in the head by a brick from a group of kids 7-13.

6

With hardware, retail, restaurants or other brick-and-mortar businesses you've got one chance more or less.

7

It would make more sense to put pressure sensors someplace where a drunken yahoo with a brick couldn't cost the city $250.

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Guilford's Alternative Uses Test, the aim being to find as many uses as possible of every day objects such as a brick etc.

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Our prices are cheaper than brick and mortar stores in the country.

10

Its almost like what food trucks have done to some brick/mortar companies.

11

One problem may be that different versions of Android have different versions of libstagefright and just hot-patching that or dropping a replacement may brick older phones.

12

Amazon should try their hand at brick and mortar.

Quote examples

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Instant security patches, instant support for new standards, etc...as well as instantly "brick" a significant number of machines out there.

2

Let me tell you a little story: I have a 13" MBP since 2008 (or 2009?) on which I replaced the power brick at two times, just a few weeks after the warranty was gone.

3

They didn't make it up to the executive levels necessary, because several layers in between feared for their jobs and careers if they said something like "This new feature you're demanding could be used to brick every single Fiat-Chrysler vehicle we make, or even murder people".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use brick in a sentence?

One more part of the reason is that they usually build the homes themselves, and its rewarding to see the house go up brick by brick - visual progress is being made.

What does brick mean?

The colour brick red.

What part of speech is brick?

brick is commonly used as noun.