brick

CEFRB1

/ˈbɹɪk/

noun

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small block used for building walls.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Something shaped like a brick.

Examples

  • Jane swims like a brick.

  • The chimney is made of brick.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

  2. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

  3. The colour brick red.

More examples

In context

  • The school is built of brick.

  • This house is made of brick.

  • This wall is made of bricks.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

After the wall collapsed, we needed a red blank to repair the broken section.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Origin

noun

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.