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# brick

«brick» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard block made of baked clay, used to build walls and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (brick, bricks); verb (brick up, bricks, bricked, bricking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A brick is a hard block made of baked clay, used to build walls and houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#m1)

2) Brick is the material: «a brick house». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#m2)

3) A toy brick is a building block. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#m3)

4) To brick up a gap is to fill it with bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#m4)

5) «You're a brick» is an old way to say someone is very kind and helpful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

things counted in rows and layers; weight or price of bricks; in history and science: bricks are made from clay fired in a kiln, and building materials are chosen for strength; in stories: the third little pig built his house of bricks; phrases: «brick by brick» (step by step), «a brick wall»

### examples

- A wall has 20 rows of 15 bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x1)
- Each brick weighs 3 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x2)
- He lays 200 bricks an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x3)
- How many bricks are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x4)
- The third little pig built his house of bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x5)
- Our school is an old red brick building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x6)
- They built the wall brick by brick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x7)
- The toddler stacked his toy bricks into a tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x8)
- It was built of red brick, with projecting gables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/#x9)

### note

Rows × bricks per row; rate per hour × hours. Bricks left = bricks at the start − bricks used. Countable: a brick, two bricks; «brick» as material is uncountable (made of brick).

### In the corpora

- [Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/7/)
- [Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/)
- [A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/11/)
- [Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/15/)
- [Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.