brick
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Noun 4 meanings
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
“This wall is made of bricks.”
Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
“This house is made of brick.”
Something shaped like a brick.
“a plastic explosive brick”
The colour brick red.
Verb 2 meanings
To build, line, or form with bricks.
“to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)”
To make into bricks.
Adjective 1 meaning
Extremely cold.
Etymology
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”).
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BRICK at a glance
BRICK has 5 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (B 3 + R 1 + I 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,572 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with brick
All rhymesOne letter away
- TRICK11
- BROCK13
- PRICK13
- BRINK11
- BRISK11
- ERICK11
- CRICK13
- BRACK13
- WRICK14
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