Brick vs Tree - 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
A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
The structural frame of a saddle.
(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
(informal) Marijuana.
(obsolete) A cross or gallows.
* Bible, Acts x. 39
(obsolete) wood; timber
* Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
As a proper noun brick
is .As a noun tree is
a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).As a verb tree is
to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.brick
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
* (wikipedia "brick") ----tree
English
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(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)- is the tallest living tree in the world.
- Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- We’ll show it as a tree list.
- Tyburn tree
- [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
- In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
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* plant * (in graph theory) graphHyponyms
* oak, fir, pine * see also:Synonyms
* sapling, seedlingSee also
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(d)- The dog treed the cat.
- to tree a boot