brick
US: /ˈbɹɪk/
UK: /bɹˈɪk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
brick /brik/- danh từ
- gạch
- to make (burn) bricks: nung gạch
- bánh, thỏi, cục (xà phòng, chè...)
- (từ lóng) người chính trực, người trung hậu
- (từ lóng) người rộng lượng, người hào hiệp
- to drop a brick
- (từ lóng) hớ, phạm sai lầm
- to have a brick in one's hat
- (từ lóng) say rượu
- like a hundred of bricks
- (thông tục) với tất cả sức mạnh có thể đè bẹp được
- to make bricks without straw
- (xem) straw
- gạch
- tính từ
- bằng gạch
- a brick wall: bức tường gạch
- bằng gạch
- ngoại động từ
- (+ up) xây gạch bít đi
- to brick up a window: xây gạch bít cửa sổ
- (+ up) xây gạch bít đi
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [C, U] baked clay used for building walls, houses and other buildings; an individual block of this: The school is built of brick. + a pile of bricks + a brick wall
See also -
2 [C] a plastic or wooden block, used as a toy for young children to build things with
3 [C, usually sing.] (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) a friend that you can rely on when you need help: Thanks for looking after the children today - you're a real brick.
Idioms: be up against a brick wall to be unable to make any progress because there is a difficulty that stops you
bricks and mortar a building, when you are thinking of it in connection with how much it cost to build or how much it is worth: A home isn't just bricks and mortar. + The new college will cost about £37 million in bricks and mortar.
make bricks without straw (BrE) to try to work without the necessary material, money, information, etc.
more at CAT n., DROP v., HEAD n., TON n.
verb
Phrasal Verbs: brick sth<->in / up to fill an opening in a wall with bricks: The windows had been bricked up.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 block, cube, chunk, hunk, slab; stone:
I bought a brick of ice-cream to serve for pudding. A university is not just bricks and mortar.
2 pal, comrade, friend, Colloq chum, US and Canadian buddy:
You're a real brick to watch the children for me till I get back.
Collocation
ADJ.
red
a house of red brick
VERB + BRICK
lay
learning to lay bricks properly
BRICK + NOUN
wall | building | works
He got a job at the local brick works.
PREP.
in/of ~
houses of brick
PHRASES
brick by brick
They moved the whole house, brick by brick.
| bricks and mortar
investing in bricks and mortar
| a course of bricks
They put an extra course of bricks round the pool.
Concise dictionary
bricks|bricked|brickingbrɪknoun
+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
