(n.) 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.
(n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
(n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
(n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
(v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
(5) This is a substantial country, not just a pile of bricks.
(6) My first mobile phone arrived in 1999: a camera-less and brick-like early Motorola model.
(7) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(8) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(9) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(10) Male workers with a history of long-term exposure to nonfibrous particulates in different industries (metal, ceramics, brick, glass, stone etc.)
(11) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
(12) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(13) When I was a kid, Lego had nothing to do with gender and everyone played with the same bricks.
(14) The crown had spent months effectively throwing random bricks at the jury with little or no explanation as to how they fitted together.
(15) This has been achieved whilst overcoming a number of well-publicised housing market challenges, particularly brick and labour shortages,” a spokesman said.
(16) But, in contrast to mammals, the highly attenuated corneocytes of avians, which results from a paucity of keratin filaments, produce a 'straws-and-mortar' tissue, rather than the 'bricks-and-mortar' tissue of mammals.
(17) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(18) Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients Read more Epstein, who reportedly keeps much of his wealth in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns a private island, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about his HSBC Geneva accounts.
(19) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
(20) The company is investing to make more bricks on the Sussex site.
Brickwork
Definition:
(n.) Anything made of bricks.
(n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) So tough luck for my friend Jennifer, who wanted to take an HND in plastering and brickwork.
(2) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(3) Georgia's rescuers put up tarpaulins to shield her from the camera lenses as they extracted her through a 10ft square hole in the brickwork and took her to hospital.
(4) At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.
(5) It gets to the point where, when one character relieves himself against a wall, you half expect to see his yellow discharge cascading down the brickwork at quarter-speed.
(6) This workshop, a hangar on a Stratford industrial estate that feels miles away from any tree, is an attempt to recreate the place where Villar Rojas now conducts most of his experiments: a rustic brickworks just outside his home city of Rosario, in central Argentina.
(7) Modelled on Venetian wine bars or bacari , with style cues from Manhattan's West Village, Polpo had opened the previous year and had helped jolt the moribund Soho dining scene into life with its unpretentious food, exposed brickwork and egalitarian no-bookings policy.
(8) It is a quiet street, sedate, shaded by old trees: a street of tall houses, their facades smooth as white icing, their brickwork the colour of honey.
(9) Under the Royal Docks, where Crossrail is expanding a Victorian tunnel opened in 1878, project manager Linda Miller points to brickwork that was only recently exposed in excavations.
(10) Potteries and brickworks, which need huge amounts of gas and electricity to heat their kilns, are particularly hard hit, as are energy-intensive chemical and steel plants.
(11) Brickwork and steel columns of the insurgents' temporary stronghold poked above the Kabul trees, and commandos who had taken over security in the area shooed away the few curious bystanders.
(12) Today B29 is showing its age and looks more like a dirty old dock than a pool with its crumbling grey concrete, grimy brickwork and old ducts and sections of corroding pipes.
(13) In the midst of trying to reconnect with his hometown, he discovered an old brickworks on the city's outskirts where bricks are made using cow dung.
(14) The shape of the hole made in the upstairs outside wall is still faintly visible under new brickwork and a coat of paint.
(15) Everything is instantly familiar: the beech wood floor and fittings, the exposed brickwork, the chrome coffee machines.
(16) For Warner, chief executive of Michelmersh Brick Holdings , the bustling yard is a welcome sight after the construction sector's deep recession saw brickworks around the country mothballed or closed.
(17) There is a failed concrete roof, water seeping in, pigeons nesting and vegetation growing through the cracks in the brickwork.
(18) From the front, the Rogers' house on a quiet street in Northwich looks just like all the others, its red brickwork identical to millions of other Victorian terraced houses up and down the land.
(19) For decades, groups such as Save Venice and Venice in Peril have campaigned for action as the tides grow worse each year and the damp seeps above the stone footings to decay the ancient brickwork above.
(20) Ibstock, another brick manufacturer, opened a modernised brickworks in Chesterton, Newscastle-under-Lyme, this month and revived a plant in Ibstock, Leicestershire, to meet demand.