mortar

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Editorial note

I can buy online but is it better to get it from a brick and mortar shop?

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Quick take

a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

noun

used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall

noun

a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mortar.

noun

a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

noun

used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall

noun

a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

verb

plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"

Example sentences

I can buy online but is it better to get it from a brick and mortar shop?

I hope he can quickly move into a brick and mortar restaurant.

"We need to be just as aggressive on the internet as we are with brick-and-mortar stores.

Imagine if you, living in CA, ordered something from a brick-and-mortar store in New York.

It would make sense actually to have an even better return policy than the brick and mortar stores to make up for this.

Off the top of my head, I can think of dispensaries that share parking lots with typical brick and mortar stores like Pet Smart, Target, etc.

We trust the bank when we walk up to the brick and mortar office because the cost of 'fooling' average people would be too high to build this sort of ruse.

He came under extremely heavy German machine gun and mortar fire and was forced to advance through a minefield to get his men to cover.

That is astonishing for a brick and mortar retailer with no consumer electronics background.

It is plainly too complicated to be left to individual web service providers, just as brick-and-mortar stores do not manufacture their own door locks or burglar alarms.

Imagine a brick and mortar retail location wishing to interview me regarding my personal info, buying habits etc before they allow me to enter and browse.

I don't understand why the Apple ecosystem seems hell bent on refusing to take advantage of the digital age. Creating a one-size fits all top 10 list, or editorial list, is a fine strategy for a brick and mortar store where they have to show everyone the same thing at the front of their store.

It wants to leverage technology in ways that help remove the physical-presence advantage used by traditional brick-and-mortar retailers.

Building a payroll system with a NoSQL back end and an AWS front end is "different" than building the same with an Xwindows client and an Oracle back end, but the things that may a payroll system "good" or "bad" often have nothing to do with the bricks and mortar and more to do with the kinds of things that typically go wrong or requirements that are left unstated.