to brick

Определение to brick в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete; To build with bricks
The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and to share the weight with the prids.; A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug; To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick
installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.; To make into bricks
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.; To hit someone using a brick; 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.; Made of brick(s)
All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney.; A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building
This wall is made of bricks.; Something shaped like a brick
a plastic explosive brick.; To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"; A helpful and reliable person
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.; {a} made or built of brick; {v} to lay, form, or wall up, with bricks; {n} clay with sand and water, shaperd in a mold, a loaf like a brick; Considered collectively, as a building material; a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy; A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick; to come down on somebody like a ton of bricks: see ton. brick off to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks. Small building unit in the form of a rectangular block, first produced in a sun-dried form at least 6,000 years ago. Clay, the basic ingredient, is mined from open pits, formed, and then fired in a kiln to produce strength, hardness, and heat resistance. Brick was the chief building material in the ancient Near East. Its versatility was expanded in ancient Rome by improvements in manufacture and by new techniques of bonding. Brick came to be widely used in Western Europe for the protection it offered against fire. See also masonry, mortar; An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has been rendered non-functional and, usually, non-repairable; Bricks are rectangular blocks of baked clay used for building walls, which are usually red or brown. Brick is the material made up of these blocks. She built bookshelves out of bricks and planks. a tiny garden surrounded by high brick walls; Made of brick; a mobile phone, especially one that is large and/or heavy relative to current models; Term of endearment, especially towards a subject who has performed a favour of an act of kindness without expectation of reciprocity; Bricks are rectangular building blocks made from clay mixed with water and baked hard; when the throwoff (pull) lands outside the endzone; Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick; (hey, I really did not make this up, honest!); A hard, errant shot that caroms wildly off the basket or backboard; A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc; America; Slang term for the last stone of an end; To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks; {i} building block; block; generous person, good person; a solid masonry rectangular block made from clay and/or shale and burned (or fired) in a kiln The plural of brick may be bricks or brick; An external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in a power plug. A power brick; rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy; A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket; A block of clay which has been molded and baked, used with cement to build; Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread); A solid masonry unit of clay or shale, formed into a rectangular prism while plastic and burned or fired in a kiln that may have cores or cells comprising of less than 25% of the cross sectional area; {f} close or pave with bricks, build with bricks; prepare bricks; A colloquial name for a hand-held radiotelephone unit; is a set of voxels that is small enough to be cached by underlying hardware, generally texture memory; Rectangular blocks of clay, molded and fired in a kiln, used for building Four of the basic types are: building brick, firebrick, paving brick and facing brick; rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material; A kilogram-sized slab or cube of compressed pot; {s} made from bricks; resembling a brick; Soil is shaped in a mould and burnt slowly to harden Used to build walls in building; A building material usually made from clay, molded as a rectangular block, and baked or burned in a kiln; A blank, or (especially in low or high-low games) a card that counterfeits one's hand "Brick" is more often heard in seven card stud, while "blank" is more appropriate to hold'em, probably because a brick is a personal thing, while a blank is a community thing; A poor shot, usually thrown on a low trajectory, that bounces hard off the rim or backboard; molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp; If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall, you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you. After that my career just seemed to hit a brick wall; To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them; Pressed block of marijuana, opium, or morphine for bulk shipment; To be in a high state of anxiety: "Bricking it"; To construct with bricks; Building material made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln; A hardened block of mud, clay, etc, used for building; You can use bricks and mortar to refer to houses and other buildings, especially when they are considered as an investment. As an investment, bricks and mortar are not what they were; To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually unrepareable, resulting in a device with a utility on par with a masonry brick; - many bundled packs of firecrackers which resembles a red brick; If you are banging your head against a brick wall, what you are saying or doing is not having any effect although you keep saying or doing it. I wanted to sort out this problem with him, but it was like banging my head against a brick wall; a large 13 oz unit of FIMO®