Brick

What “Brick” means

Noun

1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
3. Something shaped like a brick.
4. The colour brick red.
5. A helpful and reliable person.

Verb

1. To build, line, or form with bricks.
2. To make into bricks.
3. To hit someone or something with a brick.
4. To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
5. Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.

Adj

1. Extremely cold.

Where the word comes from

From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm. The sense of a helpful, reliable person comes from Lycurgus referring to the army as the walls of Sparta, every man a brick.

Business name ideas with “Brick”

Industries where “Brick” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Brick, Stone, and Related Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers
• Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing