(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.
Nogging
Definition:
(v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
(2) There were distinct individual differences in the levels of L-NOG and ovarian reactions.
(3) However, none of the cripto-expressing NOG-8 clones are able to form tumors in nude mice.
(4) No significant prolongation of the cycle lengths was seen when L-NOG was taken during the follicular phase.
(5) No relation to Ann Widdecombe 1 Advent calendar Receiving it on Christmas Day makes me 100% confident I won't be facing the disappointment of finishing it too early 2 Nog I don't like eggs but I love a bit of eggnog, think how good nog would be without the eggs holding it back 3 WH Smith's voucher Keep in my wallet for guilt free hours of magazine browsing all year round 4 Quality Street Always have a present you can instantly re-wrap and give to someone else 5 Bath bomb Take cover!
(6) In view of its neurootological flavor, it is proposed that this newly described symptomatology of neurognathostomiasis should be referred to as the neurootological gnathostomiatic syndrome(NOGS).
(7) After cotransfection, nine G418-resistant NOG-8 colonies were cloned and expanded.
(8) The levels of levonorgestrel (L-NOG), progesterone, and estradiol were measured in plasma samples of 17 normally menstruating women during a control cycle and during a subsequent period (90 days) with a L-NOG releasing vaginal ring.
(9) NRK-49F and NOG-8 1520 infectants conditioned their media with equivalent amounts of TGF-alpha protein but responded differently to autocrine stimulation.
(10) The EGF receptor level is approximately ten-fold higher on the NOG-8 epithelial cells than on the NRK-49F fibroblast.
(11) Pili dissociated by NOG or acid were tested in protection trials and shown to provide protective immunity, although agglutination titres of serum taken from the vaccinated sheep were significantly lower than those of animals inoculated with intact pili.
(12) The use of CaOH, as an interim luting agent for acrylic crowns over hybrid cores compared to ZOE or NOG, should afford significantly greater retention with no adverse effect on the retention of the final casting.
(13) When L-NOG was administered on periovulatory days 9, 11, 13, and 15, 3 women showed follicular activity only, 7 exhibited follicular activity followed by insufficient luteal function and 7 women ovulated normally.
(14) In this work, we have demonstrated that 8-Cl-cAMP antagonizes the TGF alpha effect in TGF alpha-transformed mouse mammary epithelial cells (NOG-8TFC17) at the level of gene expression for cAMP receptor protein isoforms, RI and RII (the regulatory subunits of protein kinase isozymes).
(15) The SHBG levels were not influenced by the long-term exposure to L-NOG.
(16) Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that PKC activation mediates the effect of thrombin on NOG in murine neuroblastoma NB-2a cells.
(17) The ovarian, endometrial and pituitary effects of 300 micrograms norethisterone (NET) and 30 micrograms levonorgestrel (L-NOG) administered orally on cycle days 7-10 were investigated in two groups of 10 women each, by daily analysis of plasma estradiol (E2), progesterone (PROG), immunoreactive luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in a pretreatment control cycle and during NET or L-NOG administration.
(18) In ras transformed NOG-8 and MCF-10A cells but not in neu transformed cells there is a loss in or an attenuated response to the mitogenic effects of EGF.
(19) A significant relationship was found between the levels of L-NOG, and thus indirectly, the levels of SHBG, and the degree of suppression of ovarian function.
(20) Treatment with 30 micrograms L-NOG resulted in a decrease in subjects with normal progesterone profiles (p less than 0.05) and in the area under the progesterone curve (p less than 0.05).