Unbrick vs. Brick

(transitive) To reopen something bricked up.

To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

Example: ‘This wall is made of bricks.’;

(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.

Example: ‘This house is made of brick.’;

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

Example: ‘a plastic explosive brick’;

A helpful and reliable person.

Example: ‘Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.’;

A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.

Example: ‘We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.’;

(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.

An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

Example: ‘The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river’;

The colour brick red.

Extremely cold.

To build with bricks.

To make into bricks.

(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

Example: ‘My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.’;

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.

Example: ‘The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.’;

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

Example: ‘Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.’;

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

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

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

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.

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

a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.

bricks collectively as a building material

Example: ‘this mill was built of brick’; ‘a large brick building’;

a small rectangular object

Example: ‘a brick of ice cream’;

a child's toy building block

Example: ‘the bricks and other plastic toys then need to be fitted back into their appropriate containers’;

a large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality

Example: ‘I had one of those Motorola bricks as my first cell phone’;

a smartphone or other electronic device that has completely ceased to function

Example: ‘while updating the firmware the USB cable got disconnected and the phone is now a brick’;

a generous, helpful, and reliable person

Example: ‘‘You are really a brick, Vi,’ Gloria said’;

block or enclose with a wall of bricks

Example: ‘the doors have been bricked up’;

throw bricks at

Example: ‘the pub was attacked and windows in the area were bricked’;

cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis

Example: ‘installing an unofficial OS voids the warranty and may brick the phone’;

be extremely worried or nervous.

A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks.