(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.
Ingot
Definition:
(n.) That in which metal is cast; a mold.
(n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of alloy were cut from each group, and together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope.
(2) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(3) What do you take me for?’” Nanni must have been quite pissed off to spend hours carving this in clay, and I can only hope he got his ingot upgrade.
(4) The smoking adjusted odds ratios in relation to length of exposure showed that the risk was significantly higher among the workers exposed for over 10 years compared to those who worked for less than 10 years in the grinding, soldering and brass ingot making operations.
(5) Under near-equilibrium conditions, an alloy ingot containing approximately 64% Ag, 26% Sn, and 10% Au was found by X-ray diffraction to consist of large grains demonstrating the gamma (Ag-Sn) structure.
(6) Following results were obtained: 1) Ingot specimen of these alloys showed cytotoxicity, Silver-tin-zinc alloy, silver-tin-zinc-cadmium alloy and silver-copper alloy containing 10% or less of copper showed intense cytotoxicity initially, with diminishing cytotoxic action with time.
(7) They were not ones to build monuments; instead, they took weighing scales with them and ingot moulds to melt down spare ecclesiastical treasures.
(8) Samples of alloy were cut from each group and, together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope in order to determine the nature and extent of the metallographic changes resulting from fusion and casting of the alloy.
(9) The most continuous results were achieved with a Ni-Cr-alloy whose melting temperature can be recognized since the ingots flow together when this point is reached.
(10) Melted ingots were lathe-comminuted to a particle size distribution of 1-45 microns.
(11) 2) Cast specimen of these alloys showed increasing cytotoxicity with time campared to their ingot specimen.
(12) Ingots of approximately 1.5 cm in diameter were sectioned to 0.2 cm in thickness and polished through standard metallographic polishing procedures.
(13) For the first series an average weight metal ingot was used and cast at the temperature determined by the sensing head of the casting machine.
(14) Evans said lower value goods had been recovered but many loose precious stones were still missing, as were “gold, platinum and other precious metal bars, ingots and coins”.
(15) It was written in cuneiform script in 1750BC by a bloke called Nanni who is unhappy with some copper ingots he ordered.
(16) He wrote: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said ‘If you want to take them, take them, if you do not want to take them, go away.
(17) For example, Sharps Pixley sells a 1g Degussa gold bar for £40.60, or a 100g ingot for £3,290.
(18) Subsequently, a method was perfected for incorporating nickel or tungsten powder into the Ag3 Sn ingot.
(19) For the second series a larger ingot was used, whilst for the third an elevated casting temperature was employed.
(20) Using these efficiencies, amounts of U in some Al and Fe ingots were determined.