Found 6 hits - Term: brick, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
paved \paved\ adj.
1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
tarmacadam; blacktopped, brick, cobblestone,
cobblestoned ant: unpaved
syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up british, sealed
australian.
wordnet 1.5
see also:
asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac, tarmacadam blacktopped brick cobblestone, cobblestoned unpaved
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brick \brick\ bri^k, n. oe. brik, f. brique; of ger.
origin; cf. as. brice a breaking, fragment, prov. e. brique
piece, brique de pain, equiv. to as. hl=afes brice, fr. the
root of e. break. see break.
1. 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.
1913 webster
the assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the babylonians.
--layard.
1913 webster
2. bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
1913 webster
some of palladio's finest examples are of brick.
--weale.
1913 webster
3. any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick of bread.
1913 webster
4. a good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
slang "he 's a dear little brick." --thackeray.
1913 webster
to have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. slang
1913 webster
note: brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
1913 webster
brick clay, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
brick dust, dust of pounded or broken bricks.
brick earth, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making,
bricks.
brick loaf, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in
shape.
brick nogging arch., rough brickwork used to fill in the
spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick
filling.
brick tea, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea,
steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form
of bricks. it is used in northern and central asia. --s.
w. williams.
brick trimmer arch., a brick arch under a hearth, usually
within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against
accidents by fire.
brick trowel. see trowel.
brick works, a place where bricks are made.
bath brick. see under bath, a city.
pressed brick, bricks which, before burning, have been
subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections
of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks.
1913 webster
see also:
break to have a brick in one's hat brick clay brick dust brick earth brick loaf
brick nogging brick tea brick trimmer brick trowel trowel
brick works bath brick bath pressed brick
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brick \brick\, v. t. imp. p. p. bricked; p. pr. vb. n.
bricking.
1. to lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or
construct with bricks.
1913 webster
2. 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.
1913 webster
to brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
1913 webster
see also:
bricked bricking to brick up
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
brick
n 1: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln;
used as a building or paving material
2: a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
117 moby thesaurus words for "brick":
tarmac, tarvia, adamant, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, biscuit, bisque,
bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, block, board, bone, bowl,
bricks and mortar, buddy, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china,
chum, chunk, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, comrade,
concrete, covering materials, crackerjack, crock, crockery, cube,
curb, curbing, curbstone, diamond, doll, edgestone, enamelware,
face, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flint,
flooring, friend, glass, glaze, good joe, good egg, good guy,
granite, gravel, heart of oak, hunk, iron, jug, kerb, kerbstone,
lath, lath and plaster, likely lad, macadam, marble, masonry,
mortar, nails, nice guy, no slouch, oak, pal, paper, pavement,
pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plank, plasters,
porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, pussycat,
refractory, revet, road metal, rock, roofage, roofing, shake,
sheathe, shingle, siding, slab, slate, steel, stone, stout fellow,
tarmacadam, thatch, tile, tiling, trump, urn, vase, veneer,
wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, washboard, weatherboard
- [6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
brick, nj
zip codes: 08724
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