brick
- IPA[brɪk]
英式
- a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.；bricks collectively as a building material
- block or enclose with a wall of bricks；throw bricks at
verb: brick, 3rd person present: bricks, gerund or present participle: bricking, past tense: bricked, past participle: bricked
noun: brick, plural noun: bricks
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名詞
- 1. a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.
- ▪ bricks collectively as a building material this mill was built of brick a large brick building
- ▪ a small rectangular object a brick of ice cream 同義詞
- ▪ British a child's toy building block the bricks and other plastic toys then need to be fitted back into their appropriate containers
- 2. informal a large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality I had one of those Motorola bricks as my first cell phone
- ▪ a smartphone or other electronic device that has completely ceased to function while updating the firmware the USB cable got disconnected and the phone is now a brick
- 3. British informal, dated a generous, helpful, and reliable person ‘You are really a brick, Vi,’ Gloria said
動詞
- 1. block or enclose with a wall of bricks the doors have been bricked up
- 2. British informal throw bricks at the pub was attacked and windows in the area were bricked
- 3. informal cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis installing an unofficial OS voids the warranty and may brick the phone
- 4. British vulgar slang be extremely worried or nervous.
- a thing that looks valuable, but is in fact worthless.
- invent excuses to avoid a task; shirk: he wasn't goldbricking; he was really sick
Oxford Dictionary
- a thing that looks valuable but is in fact worthless.
- invent excuses to avoid a task; shirk: he wasn't goldbricking; he was really sick
Oxford American Dictionary
- a covering of brick applied to a timber frame.
Oxford American Dictionary
- a covering of brick applied to a timber frame.
Oxford Dictionary
- (of a house) of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick, in the ... thousands of dinners were being whipped up in white ovens in brick venereal homes
- a suburban house of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick: we drove along avenues of sprawling brick venereals
Oxford Dictionary
- built with red bricks: a grand red-brick terrace
Oxford American Dictionary
- built with red bricks: a grand red-brick terrace
Oxford Dictionary
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美式
- a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.
- block or enclose with a wall of bricks: the doors have been bricked up
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[brik]
美式
- a township in southeastern New Jersey; population 78,419 (est. 2008).
Oxford American Dictionary
