brick

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brick1 /brɪk/ ●●● S2 W3 noun  1  [countable, uncountable]TBC a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc 砖，砖块 a brick wall 砖墙 a house made of brick 砖房 Protesters attacked the police with stones and bricks. 抗议者用石头和砖块袭击警察。2. bricks and mortar houses – used especially when talking about them as an investment 房产〔尤指作为一种投资〕3. [countable] British EnglishDHT a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy 积木4. [countable]NICE old-fashioned a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble 可以依靠的人n5. bricks to clicks used to talk about changing from selling things in shops to selling things on the Internet → be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall at head1(31), → drop a brick at drop1(27)

Examples from the Corpus

brick• Striding away from the house, Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it.• Inside, the church has cream-washed walls, a brick floor and green painted pews.• Stack bales like giant bricks to make the walls.• Helen piled bricks up in front of the stove, climbed up on them and began dropping the clothes in.• Janet's a real brick.• That was a real building, with real bricks.• A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water.• The 300 or so brick kilns of Juarez are just part of the problem.• Ornate patterns are carved into the bricks framing the entrance.brick2 verb  1.be bricking it British English informal to feel very nervous or frightened 极不自在；非常害怕2 brick something ↔ off phrasal verb TBCto separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks 用砖墙隔开 Some of the rooms had been bricked off. 有几间房是用砖墙隔出来的。3 brick something ↔ up/in phrasal verb TBCto fill or close a space by building a wall of bricks in it 用砖堵住[围住] The windows were bricked up. 窗户用砖堵起来了。→ See Verb tableOrigin brick1 (1400-1500) French brique, from Middle Dutch bricke

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brick¹ S2 W3 /brɪk/ noun1. [uncountable and countable] a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc:
    a brick wall
    a house made of brick
    Protesters attacked the police with stones and bricks.
2. bricks and mortar houses – used especially when talking about them as an investment
3. [countable] British English a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy
4. [countable] old-fashioned a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble
⇨ be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall at head¹(31), ⇨ drop a brick at drop¹(27)

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brick² verb
be bricking it British English informal to feel very nervous or frightened
     
brick something ↔ off phrasal verb
  to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks:
    Some of the rooms had been bricked off.
brick something ↔ up/in phrasal verb
  to fill or close a space by building a wall of bricks in it:
    The windows were bricked up.