English word senses marked with topical category "Building materials"

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Subcategories: Bricks

Total 92 word senses

• Bricktown (Proper name) A neighborhood of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• CHB (Noun) Initialism of concrete hollow block.
• Dutch clinker (Noun) A very hard, narrow, yellowish brick made in Holland, used to pave stables etc.
• albolith (Noun) A kind of cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica.
• asphalt concrete (Noun) A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. (Often clipped elliptically as asphalt.)
• backerboard (Noun) A board used behind or under other material, often as support.; Boards used as underlayment for tile, plaster, or other materials.
• beaverboard (Noun) A form of fiberboard made of wood pulp compressed into sheets.
• breeze-block (Noun) A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
• brick (Noun) 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) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
• brick (Verb) To make into bricks.
• brick (Verb) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
• brick in (Verb) To enclose with bricks.
• brick in one's hat (Noun) Drunkenness.
• brick it (Verb) To be scared; to be terrified.
• brick red (Adjective) Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
• brick shithouse (Noun) A person with a well-developed body.
• brick up (Verb) To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.
• brick-red (Adjective) Alternative form of brick red.
• bricker (Noun) A brickmaker.
• brickfielder (Noun) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
• brickie (Noun) A bricklayer.
• bricks and clicks (Noun) Clicks and mortar.
• bricks and mortar (Noun) Alternative form of brick and mortar
• brickwork (Noun) A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
• brickwork (Noun) The quality of the construction of a brick structure.
• brickworks (Noun) A place where bricks are made.
• calyon (Noun) flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
• cement (Noun) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
• cement board (Noun) A building material made of cement and glass fibers formed into sheets, used as tile backing board.
• chipboard (Noun) A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.
• cinder block (Noun) A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
• clapboard (Noun) A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
• clinker (Noun) An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
• clinker block (Noun) A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
• cob (Noun) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
• concrete (Adjective) Made of concrete (building material).
• concrete (Noun) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
• concrete (Noun) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
• corrugated iron (Noun) An iron sheet building material, usually galvanised, which has been pressed into corrugations.
• daub (Noun) Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
• drop a brick (Verb) To commit a faux pas, especially in speech, such as by tactlessly speaking of a subject that should not be mentioned.
• drywall (Noun) A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
• dumb as a brick (Adjective) Synonym of thick as a brick
• face brick (Noun) A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.
• ferroconcrete (Noun) A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.
• fibro (Noun) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
• girder (Noun) One who girds; a satirist.
• hardboard (Noun) A high-density chipboard.
• haulm (Noun) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
• hit the bricks (Verb) To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.
• hollow block (Noun) A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
• kutcha (Adjective) Imperfect, makeshift; ramshackle, second-rate.
• lath brick (Noun) 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) Jumpy, nervous.
• like a ton of bricks (Prepositional phrase) Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.
• lime mortar (Noun) A soft form of mortar made from sand and slaked lime, largely replaced by cement mortar in modern building methods.
• lumber (Noun) A baseball bat.
• make bricks without straw (Verb) To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.
• mortar (Noun) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
• mortar (Noun) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
• mortar (Noun) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
• mortar (Noun) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
• mudbrick (Noun) Adobe brick; unfired brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw.
• papercrete (Noun) A construction material made from paper or cardboard mixed with cement, clay, or soil.
• pebble dash (Verb) To apply pebble dash to a wall.
• plaster (Noun) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
• plasterboard (Noun) A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.
• plywood (Noun) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
• pykrete (Noun) A solid substance made of water ice and sawdust, stronger than pure ice. Originally to be used in combination with a refrigeration system as hull material for warships. Used as a building material for ice buildings (such as winter ice hotels) and ice sculptures, usually without the originally envisioned embedded refrigeration systems.
• quarry tile (Noun) A very hard ceramic tile used e.g. as flooring, usually 1/2 to 3/4 inches (13 to 19 mm) in thickness, made by the extrusion process from natural clays or shales.
• rammed earth (Noun) A construction material made by compressing or packing earth (dirt).
• red brick university (Noun) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
• redbrick (Noun) Clipping of red brick university.
• reinforced concrete (Noun) A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.
• roof tile (Noun) A roofing tile.
• roughcast (Noun) A rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall.
• sandstock (Noun) A kind of brick, originally made with sand
• sarooj (Noun) A traditional water-resistant mortar made of clay and limestone, used in Iranian architecture.
• sheetrock (Noun) A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall.
• shit a brick (Verb) To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment.
• spatterdash (Noun) A cement-based slurry applied to a wall in order to improve adhesion of the render.
• stretcher (Noun) A board against which a rower places his feet.
• take to the bricks (Verb) Alternative form of hit the bricks (“participate in a strike”)
• talk to a brick wall (Verb) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object.
• tarpaper (Noun) A heavy paper, coated with tar, used to waterproof walls and roofs.
• thatch (Noun) Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
• thick as a brick (Adjective) Very stupid; slow to learn or understand.
• tile (Verb) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
• wallboard (Noun) A construction material of pre-made boards used for walls and ceilings, usually a gypsum core with a paper surface.
• wattle and daub (Noun) A structure of interwoven branches and twigs plastered with mud, clay or dung, used in the construction of dwellings, especially as infill in a half-timbered wall
• weatherboard (Noun) Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard.

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