Brick vs. Masonry — 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.

Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, building stone such as marble, granite, and limestone, cast stone, concrete block, glass block, and adobe.

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

Stonework

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

Freemasonry

A generous, helpful, and reliable person

The trade of a mason.

Block or enclose with a wall of bricks

Work done by a mason.

Throw bricks at

Stonework or brickwork.

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

Masonry Freemasonry.

Be extremely worried or nervous.

The art or occupation of a mason.

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

The work or performance of a mason

Such blocks of clay used as a building material

That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.

An object shaped like such a block

The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; Freemasonry.

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

The art or occupation of a mason.

A dark brownish red.

The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.

(Informal) A helpful, reliable person.

That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.

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

The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.

To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

Structure built of stone or brick by a mason

To close or wall with brick

Freemasons collectively

(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.

The craft of a mason

(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