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The definition of a brick is a block made of molded and baked clay.
(noun)An example of a brick is the primary building material of 10 Downing Street in London.
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See brick in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a substance made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc.
- one of these blocks, of any of various standard sizes
- bricks collectively
- anything shaped like a brick
- Informal a fine person
Origin: ME brike < MDu < breken, break (in sense “piece of baked clay”) & MFr brique < OFr, of same orig.
adjective
- built or paved with brick
- like brick: brick red
transitive verb
to face, pave, etc. with brick
urban township in E N.J.: pop. 76,000
Origin: orig. a place where bricks were made
See brick in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- pl. bricks or brick A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.
- An object shaped like such a block: a brick of cheese.
- Informal A helpful, reliable person.
- To construct, line, or pave with bricks.
- To close or wall with brick: bricked up the windows of the old house.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English brike
Origin: , from Middle Dutch bricke
.Related Forms:
- brickˈy adjective
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