(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.
Stretcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
(n.) A piece of timber used in building.
(n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
(n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
(n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
(n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
(n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
(n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lovren was carried off on a stretcher following a tackle by Craig Gardner but has been unable to undergo a scan because of swelling around the knee.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) The patient is placed in the supine position on a stretcher of adjustable height with his head in a foam rubber conformer.
(4) Shawcross, who will join Fabio Capello's England squad for Wednesday's friendly against Egypt, was shown a straight red card before Ramsey was carried off the pitch on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital, where his double break was set today.
(5) This procedure can be successfully applied to ureteral stones providing appropriate preoperative cystoscopic manipulations and a correct positioning of the patient on the stretcher of the lithotripter.
(6) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
(7) 7.25pm BST 108 mins: Medel can't even walk off the pitch, sitting up on the stretcher as he's taken off and Jose Rojas comes on.
(8) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.
(9) Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
(10) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
(11) Television footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious relatives by their side.
(12) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under 6.5ft (two metres) of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.
(13) Sturridge, who set up Frank Lampard's equalising goal on his first start for his country to cancel out Shane Long's opener, was hurt in a challenge by Glenn Whelan and having fallen to the ground on the touchline, had to be carried to the dressing room on a stretcher.
(14) In contrast, routine anesthetic reversal allowed operating room extubation, patient self-transfer to the stretcher, and ambulation on the day of surgery in Hospital B where patients had a 1.7 hour recovery room stay and a 9.6 day postoperative stay.
(15) Elderly patients were removed quickly from the stretcher area of the accident and emergency department to the quieter surroundings of the short-stay ward, where their immediate nursing requirements could be readily met.
(16) Recent findings reviewed in this paper suggest that in fact all reptants share the same three inhibitory axons: one is a universal common inhibitor, making synaptic connections within all leg muscles; the other two are specific (single-target) inhibitors of the opener and stretcher muscles, respectively (muscles which share a single excitatory axon as their sole source of activation even though they act on different joints).
(17) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
(18) Augustine Eguavoen was actually stretchered off after this incident, though unsurprisingly he managed to play on after a little "treatment".
(19) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
(20) As part of the development of a life support stretcher for transportation of critically ill patients, a portable ventilation system was developed.