Толковый словарь английского языка - brick
Brick
brick
I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English bryke, from Middle Dutch ~e Date: 15th century 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, a good-hearted person, a rectangular compressed mass (as of ice cream), a semisoft cheese with numerous small holes, smooth texture, and often mild flavor, gaffe , blunder , a badly missed shot in basketball , II. transitive verb Date: 1592 to close, face, or pave with ~s
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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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