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Brick vs Fireback - What's the difference?

brick | fireback |

As nouns the difference between brick and fireback

is that brick is a hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building while fireback is some species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

As an adjective brick

is made of brick(s).

As a verb brick

is to build with bricks.

As a proper noun Brick

is {{surname}.

brick

English

Noun

  • (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    • This wall is made of bricks .
  • (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
    • This house is made of brick .
  • (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
    • a plastic explosive brick
  • (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
    • Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
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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.
    • 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.
  • (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.

    • 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 brick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of brick(s).
    • All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .

    Derived terms

    * brick shithouse

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build with bricks.
  • * 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
    • 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
  • * 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
    • 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.
  • 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
    • 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.
  • (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.
    • My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
  • * 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
    • installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.

    Antonyms

    * unbrick

    Derived terms

    * bricker * brick in * brick over * brick up * brick it

    See also

    * brickfielder

    External links

    * (wikipedia "brick") ----

    fireback

    English

    (wikipedia fireback) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Some species of pheasant in the genus Lophura .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=There are several species of the Fireback pheasant, the most common of which is the Siamese, which inhabits parts of Siam. , page=581 , title=Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices and Ideals in the United States and Canada (3rd edition) , author=Liberty Hyde Bailey , publisher=Macmillan , year=1910}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World , author=Marshall Cavendish Corporation , year=2001 , isbn=0761471987 , page=551 , passage=The name fireback comes from this bird's dazzling plumage.}}
  • A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=The only condition of the loan is that if the Daughters of the American Revolution are ever disbanded, that the fireback is to be returned to the descendants of General Lincoln. , page=84 , title=Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine v. 22 (Jan.-June 1903) , author=Daughters of the American Revolution , publisher=National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. , year=1903}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=Many of the later style fireplaces, most especially of the better class, showed firebacks. These were of iron, and were designed to keep the back of the fireplace from cracking. ... In the Pickering house on Broad Street, Salem, is a quaint fireback which was made in the first iron foundry at Saugus, now Lynn. , page=72 , title=Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings , author=Mary Harrod Northend , publisher=Little, Brown, and Company , year=1912}}

    Derived terms

    * crested fireback * crestless fireback * Siamese fireback

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