Brick vs. Stone — 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.

Hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material

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

A piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation

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

A hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.

A generous, helpful, and reliable person

A unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg)

Block or enclose with a wall of bricks

A natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey

Throw bricks at

Throw stones at

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

Remove the stone from (a fruit).

Be extremely worried or nervous.

Build, face, or pave with stone

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

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

Such blocks of clay used as a building material

Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination

An object shaped like such a block

A small piece of rock.

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

A piece of rock that is used in construction

A dark brownish red.

A gravestone or tombstone.

(Informal) A helpful, reliable person.

A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.

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

A milestone or boundary.

To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

A gem or precious stone.

To close or wall with brick

Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.

(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.

(Botany) The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.

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

(Medicine) A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.

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

Pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).

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

(Printing) A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

Relating to or made of stone

A helpful and reliable person.

Made of stoneware or earthenware.

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.

Complete; utter. Often used in combination

(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.

Completely; utterly

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

To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.

A projectile.

To remove the stones or pits from.

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

The colour brick red.

(Sports) To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.

(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

(Obsolete) To make hard or indifferent.

Extremely cold.

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

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

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

(transitive) To make into bricks.

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

To hit someone or something with a brick.

(British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.

To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

To blunder; to screw up.

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

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.

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

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

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

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

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

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

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

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

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

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.

(obsolete) A testicle.

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

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.

A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

(transitive) To wall with stones.

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. Usually in passive

To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Constructed of stone.

Having the appearance of stone.

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

(AAVE) Used as an intensifier.

(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

As a stone used with following adjective.

(slang) Absolutely, completely used with following adjectives.

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.

A precious stone; a gem.

Something made of stone. Specifically: -

The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

One of the testes; a testicle.

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; - called also imposing stone.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

To make like stone; to harden.

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;

Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose;

A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;

An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds;

United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)

United States architect (1902-1978)

A lack of feeling or expression or movement;

Kill by throwing stones at;

Remove the pits from;

Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors