Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - brick
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Brick
brick
~1 n 1 a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc (a brick wall) 2 BrE a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy 3 old-fashioned a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble (Janet's a real brick.) 4 you can't make bricks without straw used to say you cannot do a job if you do not have the necessary materials (- see also bang your head against a brick wall bang1 (5), drop a brick drop1 (34), come down on sb like a ton of bricks ton (5)) ~2 v brick sth off phr v to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks (Some of the rooms had been bricked off.) brick sth up/in phr v to fill or close a space by building a wall of bricks in it (bricked up windows)
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(bricks) 1. 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. N-VAR 2. 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. (INFORMAL) I wanted to sort out this problem with him, but it was like banging my head against a brick wall. PHRASE: V inflects, usu cont 3. 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. (INFORMAL) After that my career just seemed to hit a brick wall... PHRASE: V inflects 4. 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. PHRASE 5. to come down on somebody like a ton of bricks: see ton ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English bryke, from Middle Dutch ~e Date: 15th century 1. plural ~s or ~ a handy-sized unit of building or paving material typically being rectangular and about 2 1/4 ? 3 3/4 ? 8 inches (57 ? 95 ? 203 millimeters) and of moist clay hardened by heat 2. a good-hearted person 3. a rectangular compressed mass (as of ice cream) 4. a semisoft cheese with numerous small holes, smooth texture, and often mild flavor 5. gaffe, blunder — used especially in the phrase drop a ~ 6. a badly missed shot in basketball he threw up a ~ II. transitive verb Date: 1592 to close, face, or pave with ~s — usually used with up, in, or over ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n., v., & adj. --n. 1 a a small, usu. rectangular, block of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building. b the material used to make these. c a similar block of concrete etc. 2 Brit. a child's toy building-block. 3 a brick-shaped solid object (a brick of ice-cream). 4 sl. a generous or loyal person. --v.tr. (foll. by in, up) close or block with brickwork. --adj. 1 built of brick (brick wall). 2 of a dull red colour. Phrases and idioms bang (or knock or run) one's head against a brick wall attempt the impossible. brick-field a place at which bricks are made. brick-red the colour of bricks. like a load (or ton) of bricks colloq. with crushing weight, force, or authority. see through a brick wall have miraculous insight. Derivatives bricky adj. Etymology: ME f. MLG, MDu. bri(c)ke, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) кирпич класть кирпичи; выкладывать кирпичом кирпичный 2) блок (бетонный, песчаника, известняка) 3) стеклоблок 4) пищ. брикет to bond brick — класть кирпич вперевязку; to extrude brick — получать кирпич на ленточном прессе; to fix bricks together — класть кирпич вперевязку; to brick in — закладывать кирпичом (напр. отверстие); to lay brick on end — класть кирпич на торец; to mold brick — формовать кирпич; to press brick — прессовать кирпич; to repress brick — допрессовывать кирпич; to brick up — закладывать кирпичом (напр. отверстие) - acidproof brick - adobe brick - air brick - air-dried brick - alumina brick - American brick - antracite-base carbon brick - arch brick - ashlar brick - backing brick - blue brick - body brick - broken brick - broken fireclay brick - broken silica brick - building brick - bullnose brick - burnt brick - calcareous brick - capping brick - cavity brick - chamotte brick - checker brick - chrome-magnesite brick - circle brick - clay brick - clinker brick - closer brick - cob brick - compass brick - concrete brick - coping brick - cored brick - cove header brick - cove stretcher brick - crown brick - crushed brick - curved brick - deaerated brick - dolomite brick - double bullnose brick - dry-pressed brick - Dutch brick - economy brick - enameled brick - engineering brick - English brick - engobed brick - face brick - feather-edge brick - fire brick - fire-clay brick - fixing brick - fountain brick - fritted brick - full brick - gaged brick - glass brick - glazed brick - green brick - grog brick - gun-flue brick - H-brick - hard brick - hard-burnt brick - high-duty fireclay brick - hollow brick - hot repair brick - internal bulinose brick - jumbo brick - key brick - keyed brick - kiln brick -...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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кирпич закладывать кирпичом (напр. проём); заполнять кирпичом (напр. фахверк); облицовывать кирпичом; мостить кирпичом; замуровывать в кирпичной кладке; возводить конструкцию из кирпича; придавать внешний вид кирпичной кладки, делать разрезку (напр. стены) под кирпич brick and brick brick and stud brick on bed brick on edge acid-proof brick adobe brick aerated brick air-dried brick aluminous brick angle brick arch brick ashlar brick axed brick backing brick basic brick beam brick blue brick body brick bonder brick building common brick bullnose brick burnt brick calcium silicate brick cant brick cavity brick cellular brick clay brick clinker brick common brick compass brick concrete brick crushed bricks cut brick diatomaceous brick Dutch brick economy brick enameled brick engineered brick engineering brick face brick featheredge brick fire brick floor brick frog brick furring brick gauged brick glass brick glazed brick half brick header brick hollow brick internal-quality brick key brick kieselgur brick kiln brick lightweight building brick lime-sand brick lining brick modular brick molded brick moler brick no frogs brick paving brick perforated brick pressed brick radial brick radius brick refractory brick rock-faced brick rough-axed brick rubbing brick sand-lime brick sewer brick solid brick splay brick three-quarter brick unfired brick V brick ventilation brick vertical-fiber brick vitrified brick voussior brick wedge-shaped brick wire-cut brick wood brick ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1) кирпич класть кирпичи, делать кирпичную кладку 2) брикет 3) клинкер клинкерный 4) брусок 5) пищ. буханка (хлеба) 6) кирпичный bed of brick — нижняя грань кирпича brick bat — неполный кирпич, неполномернный кирпич, обломок кирпича face of brick — лицевая грань кирпича to brick in — закладывать кирпичами; замуровывать to brick up — закладывать кирпичами; замуровывать to fuse the brick — оплавлять кирпич to glaze the brick — глазировать кирпич to lay brick on end — класть кирпич на торец to line with brick — футеровать кирпичом to mould the brick — формовать кирпич to press the brick — прессовать кирпич to repress the brick — допрессовывать кирпич - abrasive brick - acid brick - basic brick - building brick - cast brick - cellular brick - chamotte brick - circle brick - clay brick - clinker brick - coal brick - face brick - feather-edge brick - fire brick - fusion-cast brick - green brick - hard-burnt brick - kiln brick - ladle brick - light-weight brick - lime-and-sand brick - lining brick - machine-made brick - magnesia brick - modular brick - nailable brick - pale brick - paving brick - peat brick - perforated brick - porous brick - pressed brick - radial brick - refractory brick - shale brick - silica brick - slag brick - used brick - very hard-fired brick - wall brick - whole brick ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. кирпич; клинкер 2. детские кубики (также box of bricks) 3. брусок, брикет (мыла, чая, мороженого и т. п.) 4. разг. славный парень, молодчина, "молоток" you behaved like a brick —- ты вел себя молодцом 5. промах, нарушение правил поведения to drop a brick —- разг. допустить бестактность, сделать промах, "ляпнуть" 6. ам. сл. пакет марихуаны емкостью 1 килограмм like a brick, like bricks —- охотно; энергично only a brick throw from —- совсем рядом, в двух шагах to have a brick in one's hat —- ам. напиться, наклюкаться like a cat on hot bricks —- как на горячих угольях to make bricks without straw —- делать что-л. впустую, заниматься бесполезным делом to hit the bricks —- ам. сл. бастовать like a ton of bricks —- стремительно; как таран his dreams never reached the stage of bricks and mortar —- его мечты так и не осуществились 7. кирпичный, клинкерный brick lining —- тех. футеровка brick pavement —- клинкерная мостовая Id: to knock (to run) one's head against a brick wall —- лбом стену прошибать; лезть на рожон 8. класть кирпичи; облицовывать; выкладывать кирпичем; мостить кирпичем ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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up закладывать кирпичами The old well was bricked up when it ran dry. BRICK in закладывать кирпичами BRICK 1. noun 1) кирпич; клинкер 2) брусок (мыла, чая и т.п.) box of bricks - детские кубики 3) coll. славный парень, молодчина to drop a brick - сделать ляпсус, допустить бестактность to have a brick in ones hat sl. - быть пьяным like a hundred/thousand of bricks coll. - с огромной силой like a cat on hot bricks - как на горячих угольях to make bricks without straw bibl. - работать, не имея нужного материала; затевать безнадежное дело 2. adj. кирпичный to run ones head against a brick wall - прошибать лбом стену, добиваться невозможного 3. v. класть кирпичи; облицовывать или мостить кирпичом - brick in - brick up ...Англо-русский словарь
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educ. abbr. Building Responsible Intelligent And Compassionate Kids law abbr. Bike Run It Can Kill BRID NASDAQ abbr. Bridgford Foods Corporation ...English abbreviation dictionary
Английский словарь американских идиом
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- 1416, probably from M.Du. bricke "a tile." Meaning "a good fellow" is from 1840. Brickbat is from 1563. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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