(n.) The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) A n unemployed bricklayer sits with his Work Programme employment coach in Hull, watching as he types out a sample covering letter.
(2) His mother was a school dinner lady, and his father a bricklayer and stonemason.
(3) In July 2013, Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer living in a Rio de Janeiro favela, was arrested by police in an operation to round up drug traffickers.
(4) Skills shortages were also seen as hampering growth and bricklayers have been especially scarce after housebuilding picked up on the back of the government's Help to Buy scheme.
(5) Like other builders who have warned of a shortage of bricks and bricklayers, Barratt said the increase in building across the industry had strained its supply chain.
(6) That follows a report last week of booming pay deals within the sector as companies struggle to attract bricklayers and other skilled workers.
(7) Friendship Alfredo Scappaticci, small, barrel-chested with classic Mediterranean olive skin and wiry black hair, was born to an Italian immigrant family in west Belfast in the late 1940s and became a bricklayer.
(8) Housebuilding activity still increased at a strong pace overall, but the sharp growth slowdown since this summer reflects greater caution towards new development projects amid tighter mortgage lending conditions and renewed uncertainties about the demand outlook.” Meanwhile, Persimmon, Britain’s biggest housebuilder by market value, said a shortage of workers with joinery and bricklaying skills was limiting the number of homes it could build.
(9) Persimmon has already taken on 100 former military personnel to train primarily in bricklaying, where the lack of skilled workers has reached a record high, according to the latest construction survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(10) I can’t get a permanent job,” says Nowrooz, an asylum seeker who works as a bricklayer in Sydney.
(11) Photograph: Africa ELI The private school is run by Wani Kenneth Evans, a South Sudanese engineer who started as a bricklayer at another school project, and progressed up the ranks.
(12) The warning comes after rival homebuilder Galliford Try said that good bricklayers could command salaries of £40,000 a year , as demand for new homes escalates.
(13) In 1950, after three years at the sharashka Solzhenitsyn was transferred to a special camp at Ekibastuz in northern Kazakhstan, where he worked for three more years, first as a bricklayer, and then as a brigade leader in the machine shop.
(14) In terms of skills, the ever-growing lack of bricklayers is causing concern.
(15) The material consists of a random sample of 85 painters, and as a non-exposed control group of 85 bricklayers, selected in the same way.
(16) Low male prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease was found among bricklayers, road construction workers, unskilled workers in brick and stone, unskilled labourers, and security personnel.
(17) The FMB’s services director, Steve Laurence, who drew up the scheme, said the first cohort would learn the basics of “all the biblical trades” in one year – bricklaying, joinery, roofing, floorlaying, plastering and painting – and gain an NVQ level 2 qualification, with the opportunity to specialise after.
(18) Figures in September showed the number of out-of-work bricklayers was the lowest in a decade .
(19) The latent period of several decades for the development of silicosis is such that it may well be feared that the cases now reported are only the beginning of increased occurrence of the disease in coming years among particularly exposed concrete workers, bricklayers, unskilled workers, electricians, joiners and carpenters.
(20) A study was made of work conditions suspected of being responsible for a greater prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among 33 bricklayers.
Cement
Definition:
(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
(n.) To unite firmly or closely.
(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(2) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(3) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(4) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(5) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(6) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(7) To overcome these problems we developed methotrexate bone cement (MTX-Palacos) with the aim to obtain high local concentrations of methotrexate in order to destroy remaining tumor cells and avoid systemic side effects.
(8) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(9) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(10) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(11) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(12) In addition, hypertension, blood group, surgical approach, and choice of cemented or cementless total hip replacement did not seem to affect the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis.
(13) The use of glass-ionomer cements in clinical dentistry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
(14) This study evaluated the bond strength between glass ionomer cements and laser-etched dentin.
(15) Microscopy revealed a spectrum of tissue reactions, ranging from a seemingly direct bone-cement contact to a fibrous membrane, up to 1.5 mm thick.
(16) Forty metal femoral cups were matched with a cemented acetabulum, while with 46 the acetabular implant was cementless.
(17) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(18) No significant differences were found among any of the cements at any of the times.
(19) With equal cementing conditions and points of measurement for all crowns, the PFM crowns were found to be significantly superior to the other crown types.
(20) This study evaluated the usefulness and accuracy of preoperative planning for cemented and cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA).