brick

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. countable
    — This wall is made of bricks.
  2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. uncountable
    — This house is made of brick.
  3. Something shaped like a brick. countable
    — a plastic explosive brick
  4. The colour brick red. countable,uncountable
    — The handyman considered the question and I knew she had a brick of ground beans in her bag but was considering whether the beds and a hot drink was worth a brick of coffee.
  5. A helpful and reliable person. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
  6. 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. countable,slang,uncountable
    — See also: put up a brick
  7. 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. countable,informal,uncountable
  8. An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. countable,figuratively,slang,uncountable
  9. A projectile. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
    — I was on deck watching the firing, and looking at the direction in which our guns were pointing, it was obvious that it was not going to be Centurion who was going to receive our bricks.
  10. A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. countable,uncountable
  11. A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. countable,slang,uncountable
    — The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
  12. A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable. countable,uncountable
  13. A kilogram of cocaine. countable,slang,uncountable
    — I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap / Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse / Cook that coca into crack / I was selling Zs while you was in your bed
  14. A trans woman who does not pass. countable,derogatory,offensive,uncountable
    — Was she like you—a brick, never passed, never gonna?
  15. A reel or short video. countable,slang,uncountable
    — I built up this feed brick by brick.
  16. Any of species Agrochola circellaris of moths of Europe and Asia Minor. countable,uncountable
  17. A brick phone. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To build, line, or form with bricks. transitive
    — to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
  2. To make into bricks. transitive
    — 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.
  3. To hit someone or something with a brick. slang,transitive
  4. To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. slang,transitive
    — My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
  5. Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. intransitive,slang
    — My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
  6. To blunder; to screw up. intransitive,slang
形容词 adj.
  1. Extremely cold. New-York,colloquial,not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

bricks plural bricks present,singular,third-person bricking participle,present bricked participle,past bricked past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm.
词源 2
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm.
词源 3
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm.
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