What's the difference between brick and mud?

Brick


Definition:

  • (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.

Mud


Definition:

  • (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
  • (v. t.) To bury in mud.
  • (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
  • (2) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
  • (3) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (4) This anterior-like cell preparation contained approximately 80% neutral red-stained cells, none of which carried a surface antigen specific to prespore cells (MUD-1 antigen).
  • (5) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (6) Hyflosupercel, Kaolin, and marine mud increased the stability of the enzyme.
  • (7) Evidence is presented that there is an association between tropical ulcer and exposure to mud or slow moving fresh water.
  • (8) A Mud(Ap, lac) prophage has been shown to be inserted into the ptsH gene of E. coli.
  • (9) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
  • (10) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (11) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
  • (12) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
  • (13) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.
  • (14) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
  • (17) Finally, induced Mud-P22 insertions package more than 100 kb of genomic DNA adjacent to one side of the insertion.
  • (18) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
  • (19) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.