Brisk vs. Brick — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Brisk and Brick
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Brisk
Marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic
Had a brisk walk in the park.
Brick
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.
Brisk
Keen or sharp in speech or manner
A brisk greeting.
Brick
A small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.
Brisk
Stimulating and invigorating
A brisk wind.
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Brick
A large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality
I had one of those Motorola bricks as my first cell phone
Brisk
Pleasantly zestful
A brisk tea.
Brick
A generous, helpful, and reliable person
‘You are really a brick, Vi,’ Gloria said
Brisk
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
We took a brisk walk yesterday.
Brick
Block or enclose with a wall of bricks
The doors have been bricked up
Brisk
Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
Brick
Throw bricks at
The pub was attacked and windows in the area were bricked
Brisk
(archaic) Sparkling; fizzy.
Brisk cider
Brick
Cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis
Installing an unofficial OS voids the warranty and may brick the phone
Brisk
Stimulating or invigorating.
This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
Brick
Be extremely worried or nervous.
Brisk
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
Brick
A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.
Brisk
To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
Brick
Such blocks of clay used as a building material
A house made of brick.
Brisk
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile.
Brisk toil alternating with ready ease.
Brick
An object shaped like such a block
A brick of cheese.
Brisk
Full of spirit of life; effervesc ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
Brick
(Informal) A smartphone, tablet, or similar electronic device that connects to the internet that has become inoperable.
Brisk
To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; - usually with up.
Brick
A dark brownish red.
Brisk
Become brisk;
Business brisked up
Brick
(Informal) A helpful, reliable person.
Brisk
Quick and energetic;
A brisk walk in the park
A lively gait
A merry chase
Traveling at a rattling rate
A snappy pace
A spanking breeze
Brick
(Basketball) A shot that falls short of the basket.
Brisk
Imparting vitality and energy;
The bracing mountain air
Brick
To construct, line, or pave with bricks.
Brisk
Very active;
Doing a brisk business
Brick
To close or wall with brick
Bricked up the windows of the old house.
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.
Brick
(Informal) To become inoperable. Used especially of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that connect to the internet.
Brick
(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
This wall is made of bricks.
Brick
(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
This house is made of brick.
Brick
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
A plastic explosive brick
Brick
A helpful and reliable person.
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
Brick
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.
Brick
(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.
Brick
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
Brick
A projectile.
Brick
(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
Brick
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
Brick
The colour brick red.
Brick
(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
Brick
Extremely cold.
Brick
(transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
Brick
(transitive) To make into bricks.
Brick
To hit someone or something with a brick.
Brick
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.
Brick
To blunder; to screw up.
Brick
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.
The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
Brick
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
Brick
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
Brick
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
Brick
To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
Brick
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.
Brick
Rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
Brick
A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
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