Definition of Brick

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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.

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Brick Quotations

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Dorothy Day

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

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki

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

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
Roger Daltrey

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham

I am like a brick.
Amrish Puri

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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