Brick vs Class - What's the difference?
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(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
(dated) A helpful and reliable person.
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(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.
(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.
(technology, slang) 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.
Made of brick(s).
To build with bricks.
* 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
* 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
To make into bricks.
* 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
(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.
* 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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, title= (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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, title= (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of classes covering a single subject.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
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(mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .
To assign to a class; to classify.
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To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
In countable terms the difference between brick and class
is that brick is something shaped like a brick while class is a category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.In uncountable terms the difference between brick and class
is that brick is considered collectively, as a building material while class is admirable behavior; elegance.As a proper noun Brick
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English
Noun
- This wall is made of bricks .
- This house is made of brick .
- a plastic explosive brick
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
Derived terms
* brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brickAdjective
(-)- All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .
Derived terms
* brick shithouseVerb
(en verb)- If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
- The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
- The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
- installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.
Antonyms
* unbrickDerived terms
* bricker * brick in * brick over * brick up * brick itSee also
* brickfielderExternal links
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English
(wikipedia class)Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* business class * character class * class action * class clown * class diagram * class reunion * class struggle * economy class * equivalence class * first class * form class * middle class * noun class * pitch class * professional class * school class * second class * social class * spectral class * super class * third class * touch of class * upper class * working class * abstract class * anonymous/local class * base class * class diagram * convenience class * factory class * final class * inner class * outer class * static class * subclass * wrapper classVerb
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- — Tatham.