Brick vs. Laterite — What's the Difference?

A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks.

Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminum and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content.

A small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.

A red residual soil formed by the leaching of silica and by the enrichment with aluminum and iron oxides, especially in humid climates.

A large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality

A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.

A generous, helpful, and reliable person

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; - found in India.

Block or enclose with a wall of bricks

A red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides

Throw bricks at

Cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis

Be extremely worried or nervous.

A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.

Such blocks of clay used as a building material

An object shaped like such a block

(Informal) A smartphone, tablet, or similar electronic device that connects to the internet that has become inoperable.

A dark brownish red.

(Informal) A helpful, reliable person.

(Basketball) A shot that falls short of the basket.

To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

To close or wall with brick

(Informal) To cause to become inoperable. Used especially of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that connect to the internet. I bricked my smartphone when I tried to untether it.

(Informal) To become inoperable. Used especially of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that connect to the internet.

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

A helpful and reliable person.

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.

An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

A projectile.

(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.

The colour brick red.

(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

Extremely cold.

(transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.

(transitive) To make into bricks.

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.

To blunder; to screw up.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

Rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy