brick

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noun

Plural noun:

bricks

1.
(countable)A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
This wall is made of bricks.
2.
(uncountable)Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
This house is made of brick.
3.
(countable)Something shaped like a brick.
a plastic explosive brick
4.
(countable, uncountable)The colour brick red.
5.
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A helpful and reliable person.
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
6.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
7.
(countable, informal, uncountable)A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male plug and an attached cord terminating in another plug.
8.
(countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)(computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
9.
(UK, countable, slang, uncountable)(UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
11.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
12.
(countable, uncountable)(collectible card games) A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

bricks

V_ing/Gerund

bricking

V_ed/pp

bricked

1.
(transitive)To build, line, or form with bricks.
to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
2.
(transitive)To make into bricks.
3.
(slang, transitive)To hit someone or something with a brick.
4.
(slang, transitive)(transitive, computing slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
5.
(intransitive, slang)(intransitive, computing slang) Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
6.
(intransitive, slang)To blunder; to screw up.

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(New York, colloquial, not comparable)(colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.
Đồng nghĩa: algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill, chilled, chilly, clay-cold, cold, cold as a mackerel, cold as charity, freezing, frosty, frore, frozen, gelid, glacial, hiemal, icy, inclement, nesh, nippy, parky, polar, sleety, snowy, taters, wintry

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Đồng nghĩa

algid Arctic Baltic borealbrass monkeysbrumal chill chilled chillyclay-coldcoldcold as a mackerelcold as charityfreezing frosty frore frozen gelid glacial hiemal

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fish unbrick

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from - and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern brik), ultimately related to *brekan (to break), whence also briche and brique. Compare also Brickje. Related to break.