All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Bricks"
Parent categories: Building materials, Construction, Materials, Architecture, Engineering, Manufacturing, Applied sciences, Art, Technology, Human activity, Sciences, Culture, Human behaviour, Society, Human
Total 51 word senses
- Bricktown (Proper name) [English] A neighborhood of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- Dutch clinker (Noun) [English] A very hard, narrow, yellowish brick made in Holland, used to pave stables etc.
- brick (Noun) [English] A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- brick (Noun) [English] A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- brick (Verb) [English] To make into bricks.
- brick (Verb) [English] To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
- brick in (Verb) [English] To enclose with bricks.
- brick in one's hat (Noun) [English] Drunkenness.
- brick it (Verb) [English] To be scared; to be terrified.
- brick red (Adjective) [English] Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
- brick shithouse (Noun) [English] A person with a well-developed body.
- brick up (Verb) [English] To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.
- brick-red (Adjective) [English] Alternative form of brick red.
- bricker (Noun) [English] A brickmaker.
- brickfielder (Noun) [English] A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
- brickie (Noun) [English] A bricklayer.
- bricks and clicks (Noun) [English] Clicks and mortar.
- bricks and mortar (Noun) [English] Alternative form of brick and mortar
- brickwork (Noun) [English] A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
- brickwork (Noun) [English] The quality of the construction of a brick structure.
- brickworks (Noun) [English] A place where bricks are made.
- drop a brick (Verb) [English] To commit a faux pas, especially in speech, such as by tactlessly speaking of a subject that should not be mentioned.
- dumb as a brick (Adjective) [English] Synonym of thick as a brick
- hit the bricks (Verb) [English] To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.
- korèll (Noun) [Cimbrian] brick
- lath brick (Noun) [English] A long, slender brick used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln.
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (Prepositional phrase) [English] Jumpy, nervous.
- like a ton of bricks (Prepositional phrase) [English] Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.
- make bricks without straw (Verb) [English] To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.
- red brick university (Noun) [English] Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
- redbrick (Noun) [English] Clipping of red brick university.
- sandstock (Noun) [English] A kind of brick, originally made with sand
- shit a brick (Verb) [English] To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment.
- take to the bricks (Verb) [English] Alternative form of hit the bricks (“participate in a strike”)
- talk to a brick wall (Verb) [English] To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object.
- thick as a brick (Adjective) [English] Very stupid; slow to learn or understand.
- tijolo (Noun) [Portuguese] wall of text
- ইট (Noun) [Bengali] brick
- ইটা (Noun) [Assamese] brick
- 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (Noun) [Prakrit] brick
- цагляны (Adjective) [Belarusian] brick
- цэгла (Noun) [Belarusian] brick (building material)
- თუღლა (Noun) [Laz] brick
- ઈંટ (Noun) [Gujarati] brick
- ציגל (Noun) [Yiddish] brick
- ציגעלניע (Noun) [Yiddish] brickworks, brickyard
- ଇଟା (Noun) [Odia] brick; block
- इट (Noun) [Ahirani] brick
- इट्ट (Noun) [Dogri] brick
- ईट (Noun) [Varhadi] brick
- 𑘃𑘘 (Noun) [Old Marathi] brick
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