| Englisch > Deutsch | |
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| brick | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Baumaterial: der Ziegelstein | |
| [1] The walls are built of bricks. | |
| Die Wände sind aus Ziegelstein. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| brick | |
| 1. subst. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. |  |
| This wall is made of bricks. | |
| 2. subst. Considered collectively, as a building material. | |
| This house is made of brick. | |
| 3. subst. Something shaped like a brick. | |
| a plastic explosive brick | |
| 4. subst. (slang) A helpful and reliable person. | |
| Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick. | |
| 5. subst. (basketball, slang) 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. | |
| We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land. | |
| 6. subst. (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. | |
| 7. subst. (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. | |
| 8. subst. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. | |
| 9. subst. (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. | |
| The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river | |
| 10. subst. The colour brick red. | |
| All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney. | |
| 11. adj. (colloquial, AAVE, New England, of weather) Extremely cold. | |
| 12. v. To build with bricks. | |
| 13. v. To make into bricks. | |
| 14. v. (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick. | |
| 15. v. (computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick. | |
| My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm. | |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
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| Ziegel | |
| 1. subst. brick | |
| 2. subst. roof tile | |
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