brick
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Is brick a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.Examples: "This wall is made of bricks."countable
2. (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.Examples: "This house is made of brick."uncountable
3. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.Examples: "a plastic explosive brick"countable
4. (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.Examples: "Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick."; "“It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general."; "Theobald's mind worked in this way: "Now, I know Ernest has told this boy what a disagreeable person I am, and I will just show him that I am not disagreeable at all, but a good old fellow, a jolly old boy, in fact a regular old brick, and that it is Ernest who is in fault all through.""countabledatedslanguncountable
5. (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.Examples: "We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land."countableslanguncountable
6. (informal) 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.countableinformaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.Examples: "to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)"; "If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected"; "The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids."transitive
2. (transitive) To make into bricks.Examples: "The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter."transitive
3. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.slangtransitive
4. (transitive, computing slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.Examples: "My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm."; "Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device."; "installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router."slangtransitive
5. (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.Examples: "My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference."Antonyms: unbrickintransitiveslang
6. (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.intransitiveslang
adj (English)
1. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.Examples: "And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling."; "He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train."; "Read on for tips so you don't freeze your ass off when it's brick outside."Synonyms: algid, Arctic, Baltic, benumbed, bitter, bleak, bone-chilling, borealNew-Yorkcolloquialnot-comparable
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Definition source: Wiktionary