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Definition of Brick

Brick 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. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. 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. Related Definitions: An, And, Any, As, Block, Bread, Brick, Burnt, By, Called, Clamp, Clay, Collectively, Construct, Counterfeit, Designating, Edge, Fellow, Form, Good, Heap, Imitate, In, Into, Kiln, Kind, Lay, Line, Load, Making, Maple, Mass, Material, Merry, Molded, Oblong, Ocher, Of, On, Or, Pave, Penny, Person, Plaster, Pointing, Re, Rectangular, Red, Regular, Sand, Smearing, Stack, Sugar, Sun-Dried, Surround, Tempered, That, The, Them, Thousand, To, Tool, Wall, Water, With, You

Brick Quotations They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. Dorothy Day At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. Peter M. Davies In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Tadao Ando I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. King Hussein I The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. John McEnroe

Brick Translations brick in Afrikaans is baksteen brick in Danish is tegl, mursten brick in Dutch is bakstenen, stenen brick in French is brique brick in German is Backstein {m}, Ziegelstein, Ziegel brick in Italian is mattone brick in Norwegian is murstein brick in Portuguese is tijolo brick in Spanish is teja, ladrillo brick in Swedish is tegelsten, tegel, hedersprick

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