Hello vs Brick - What's the difference?
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"!" or an equivalent greeting.
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To greet with "hello".
* 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
(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
As an interjection hello
is .As a noun hello
is "!" or an equivalent greeting.As a verb hello
is to greet with "hello".As a proper noun brick is
.hello
English
Alternative forms
* hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
Usage notes
* The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.Quotations
* (English Citations of "hello")Synonyms
* (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See alsoAntonyms
* (greeting) bye, goodbyeDerived terms
*See also
* * (wikipedia "hello")Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* greetingVerb
(en verb)- I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
brick
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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.