brick

Word family

Related topics: Construction, Toys

brick1 /brɪk/ S2 W3 noun

1 [countableC, uncountableU]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〕

Examples from the Corpus

bricks and mortar• Sound waves can also travel through solids, even such as bricks and mortar.• On downtown streets, broken glass covered many sidewalks and fallen bricks and mortar dented cars.• What was a potentially valuable, or at least useful, asset in bricks and mortar rapidly becomes a liability.• As a former building contractor, he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar.• The original bricks and mortar might be pulled down but Leatherslade Farm will remain for ever at the centre of the legend.• I saw him raining bricks and mortar on the people of Clydebank.• We feel that bricks and mortar are solid investment.• The prospect of delightful gardens was lost and the Brook disappeared under bricks and mortar.

3. [countableC] British EnglishBrEDHT a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy 积木

4. [countableC]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 EnglishBrE informal to feel very nervous or frightened 极不自在；非常害怕