Brick

[brɪk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material.

(noun.) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy.

艾利森手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

(n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

(n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

(n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

(v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

(v. t.) 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.

艾德蒙編輯

解釋/意思:

n. an oblong or square piece of burned clay: a loaf of bread in the shape of a brick: (slang) a reliable friend a good fellow.—v.t. to lay or pave with brick.—ns. Brick′bat a piece of brick; Brick′clay a clay used in making bricks; Brick′-dust dust made by pounding bricks a colour like that of brick-dust; Brick′-earth earth used in making bricks; Brick′-field a place where bricks are made; Brick′-kiln a kiln in which bricks are burned; Brick′layer one who lays or builds with bricks; Brick′laying; Brick′maker one whose trade is to make bricks; Brick′-tea tea pressed into cakes; Brick′-work a structure formed of bricks.—Like a brick with good-will.

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