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brick [brɪk]
n. 砖块, 积木
a. 用砖做的
vt. 用砖造, 用砖砌
[化] 砖
[医] 砖
[经] 成捆的新钞票
- His new house was built by himself, brick by brick.
他的新房子是他自己一块砖一块砖砌起来的。 - All the windows were bricked up.
所有的窗户都用砖堵住了。 - Her husband is a brick layer.
她丈夫是个砌砖匠。
brick
[ noun ]
- rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
- a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
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Brick \Brick\ (br[i^]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[=a]fes 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.
The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
--Layard.
2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
--Weale.
3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread).
4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
[Slang] ``He 's a dear little brick.'' --Thackeray.
{To have a brick in one's hat}, to be drunk. [Slang]
Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
{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.
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.
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.
{To brick up}, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique
piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[=a]fes 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.
The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
--Layard.
2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
--Weale.
3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread).
4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
[Slang] ``He 's a dear little brick.'' --Thackeray.
{To have a brick in one's hat}, to be drunk. [Slang]
Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
{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.
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.
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.
{To brick up}, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
- FORT SHERIDAN _ Located in suburban Chicago, Fort Sheridan is a graceful cluster of tan brick buildings that resembles a college campus.
- A rubber hose carries water from the street to a courtyard, where residents squat on a common brick floor in the open to wash their clothes, cooking utensils and themselves.
- The army reported six wounded, including a youth it said was shot just as he was about to hurl a brick from a rooftop on a soldier below.
- A chunky, loquacious man who lives in a brick home on four acres in this isolated town near the Burro Mountains, Mr. Hatfield loves bargains.
- The five-story, 250,000-square-foot limestone and brick building will be constructed with private funds.
- The bank's five-story brick headquarters, which it shares with its union owner, overlooks New York's Union Square, the site of labor and political rallies earlier in the century.
- Not only that: they throw a honking great brick through the flimsy plot and leave a mess of shattered ideals.
- Three decades of hard work later, Mr. Guerrero lives in a tumbledown brick shell about the size and shape of a baseball dugout.
- Jannock is a brick manufacturer.
- Industrial centers and international hotels are sprouting amid the city's old red and gray brick mansions.
- Bright sunshine slanting through the budding trees gave a roseate glow to the white-columned Georgian brick buildings.
- On a gray brick wall in Beijing, activists pasted up posters criticizing the leftist leaders and calling for the return to power of the reformist Mr. Deng.
- A Jewish settler was injured in the West Bank town of Qalqilya when a brick was hurled at her car, Israel radio said.
- But temperature-controlled cellars are an investment.' When the Swaits bought their own house in Surrey, it had brick barrel vaults full of empty Dom Perignon bottles.
- For 50 years, James Willis cooked at the one-story brick building with a neon pig out front.
- Tarmac's announcement that it is cutting a third of its brick production and a tenth of its concrete block output is welcome news for an industry plagued by overcapacity.
- Police said wind in Palmer, Mass., took a 5-foot section of brick off the top of a Main Street building, damaging a few cars parked below.
- Legislation signed into law Dec. 23 designates Carter's home, the railroad depot, a vacant brick building where he graduated from high school in 1941 and his boyhood home in nearby Archery as a National Historic Site.
- Excluding clay reserves, which Marley did not value, the businesses had net assets of Pounds 14.7m. The deal gives Marley a way out of the brick business which it has been trying to sell for several years.
- Rescuers aided by a crane brought in to clear rubble from the four-story brick building recovered two bodies by Tuesday night but neither had been identified, said police Lt.
- Within two weeks, Goodrich expects to unload its huge old factory complex in Akron, 27 multistory brick buildings on 38 acres.
- She said two other teen-agers on a motorcycle tried to run them down as they ran to her family's apartment and that someone threw a brick at the home after they were inside.
- It is an area of unpaved streets, small brick houses and immense poverty.
- A middle wall 3 yards long and made of gray-white chalk blocks is believed to be part of the first Globe theater, while an inner brick wall, 1 yard long and with a layer of crushed hazelnuts, may be part of the second Globe, he said.
- Talks to end the 22-week scriptwriters strike have "hit a brick wall," according to the producers' top negotiator who is urging strikers to cross picket lines and end the industry's second-longest walkout.
- According to official figures, as of last year four out of 10 Venezuelans lived in the adobe and brick ranchos on the slopes ringing Caracas and other major cities.
- Mr. He, the poor peasant from Dongwan, gets by only because officials arranged jobs for him and two brothers at a local brick kiln.
- As the eye of the storm passed, he took reporters onto the porch of the 188-year-old brick City Hall to look at the damage.
- For years, debate has raged about what should be done to preserve the nation's oldest and tallest brick lighthouse.
- They lit candles and listened to an organ playing somber music inside the small red brick church.
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