What's the difference between brickwork and frenchman?
Brickwork
Definition:
(n.) Anything made of bricks.
(n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) So tough luck for my friend Jennifer, who wanted to take an HND in plastering and brickwork.
(2) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(3) Georgia's rescuers put up tarpaulins to shield her from the camera lenses as they extracted her through a 10ft square hole in the brickwork and took her to hospital.
(4) At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.
(5) It gets to the point where, when one character relieves himself against a wall, you half expect to see his yellow discharge cascading down the brickwork at quarter-speed.
(6) This workshop, a hangar on a Stratford industrial estate that feels miles away from any tree, is an attempt to recreate the place where Villar Rojas now conducts most of his experiments: a rustic brickworks just outside his home city of Rosario, in central Argentina.
(7) Modelled on Venetian wine bars or bacari , with style cues from Manhattan's West Village, Polpo had opened the previous year and had helped jolt the moribund Soho dining scene into life with its unpretentious food, exposed brickwork and egalitarian no-bookings policy.
(8) It is a quiet street, sedate, shaded by old trees: a street of tall houses, their facades smooth as white icing, their brickwork the colour of honey.
(9) Under the Royal Docks, where Crossrail is expanding a Victorian tunnel opened in 1878, project manager Linda Miller points to brickwork that was only recently exposed in excavations.
(10) Potteries and brickworks, which need huge amounts of gas and electricity to heat their kilns, are particularly hard hit, as are energy-intensive chemical and steel plants.
(11) Brickwork and steel columns of the insurgents' temporary stronghold poked above the Kabul trees, and commandos who had taken over security in the area shooed away the few curious bystanders.
(12) Today B29 is showing its age and looks more like a dirty old dock than a pool with its crumbling grey concrete, grimy brickwork and old ducts and sections of corroding pipes.
(13) In the midst of trying to reconnect with his hometown, he discovered an old brickworks on the city's outskirts where bricks are made using cow dung.
(14) The shape of the hole made in the upstairs outside wall is still faintly visible under new brickwork and a coat of paint.
(15) Everything is instantly familiar: the beech wood floor and fittings, the exposed brickwork, the chrome coffee machines.
(16) For Warner, chief executive of Michelmersh Brick Holdings , the bustling yard is a welcome sight after the construction sector's deep recession saw brickworks around the country mothballed or closed.
(17) There is a failed concrete roof, water seeping in, pigeons nesting and vegetation growing through the cracks in the brickwork.
(18) From the front, the Rogers' house on a quiet street in Northwich looks just like all the others, its red brickwork identical to millions of other Victorian terraced houses up and down the land.
(19) For decades, groups such as Save Venice and Venice in Peril have campaigned for action as the tides grow worse each year and the damp seeps above the stone footings to decay the ancient brickwork above.
(20) Ibstock, another brick manufacturer, opened a modernised brickworks in Chesterton, Newscastle-under-Lyme, this month and revived a plant in Ibstock, Leicestershire, to meet demand.
Frenchman
Definition:
(n.) A native or one of the people of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
(3) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) The Frenchman has been excused from duty at Everton on Saturday on compassionate grounds and the club have put no time frame on his possible return.
(7) Garde has wasted no time in making his mark on the team and it came as no surprise that the Frenchman restored all four signings from Ligue 1 – Jordan Ayew, Jordan Amavi, Jordan Veretout and Idrissa Gueye – to the starting XI.
(8) Signing Paul Pogba and keeping David de Gea are Louis van Gaal’s priorities Read more Van Gaal is free to sign the 22-year-old, valued at €100m (£71.5m) by Juventus, despite Sir Alex Ferguson allowing the Frenchman to leave Old Trafford in 2012.
(9) Mancini resists the temptation to belt the Frenchman in the mouth as he walks past him.
(10) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(11) As a Frenchman, albeit a London-based one, he probably lacks first-hand knowledge of ITV's history.
(12) But the Frenchman has revealed an unlikely source of inspiration on his daily drive to Arsenal’s training ground in Hertfordshire: Bob Marley.
(13) Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival on a 12-month loan with a move for Antoine Griezmann from Atlético – the Frenchman has a £43m buyout clause in his contract – which would see them beginning the defence of their title with a revamped forward line.
(14) The Frenchman, who had already won the World Rally Championship, took control of the three-day event from the start.
(15) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(16) Palace had started the day in second place and with Cabaye imperious and James McArthur just as impressive at the Frenchman’s side they are no longer pushovers.
(17) He might not want it.” That may well be the case, and the Frenchman’s instinct may be to seek a new long-term deal at the Emirates Stadium.
(18) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
(19) I maintain what I said, that he could make it back for February or even earlier,” the Frenchman said of Wilshere.
(20) Fryatt knocks the ball past Koscielny and attempts to retrieve it but the Frenchman is faster and wins the race.