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Brick can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

brick used as an adjective:

  1. Made of brick(s).
    "All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

brick used as a verb:

  1. To build with bricks.
  2. To make into bricks.
  3. To hit someone using a brick.
  4. 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."
  5. To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

brick used as a noun:

  1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    "This wall is made of bricks."
  2. Considered collectively, as a building material.
    "This house is made of brick."
  3. Something shaped like a brick.
    "a plastic explosive brick"
  4. A helpful and reliable person
    "Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick."
  5. 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."
  6. 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.
  7. An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'brick' can be an adjective, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney.
  2. Verb usage: My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
  3. Noun usage: This wall is made of bricks.
  4. Noun usage: This house is made of brick.
  5. Noun usage: a plastic explosive brick
  6. Noun usage: Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
  7. Noun usage: We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of brick are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of brick, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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