Brick in spanish
pronunciation: lɑdɹ̩ijoʊ part of speech: noun
brick = ladrillo.
Example: Just as Ivan finds that by taking pleasure in the laying of bricks as his day's work, he makes survival possible and beats Stalin and his jailors at heir own game.more:
» as thick as a brick = no tener dos dedos de frente, tonto del bote, tener pocas luces, más corto que las mangas de un chaleco.
Example: Her husband is still as thick as a brick and he still thinks he's been the model husband but Rome wasn't built in a day.» be like talking to a brick wall = ser como hablar con la pared, ser como hablarle a la pared, ser como ladrarle a la luna.
Example: Volunteers have been circulating petitions for years, but 'it's been like talking to a brick wall'.» brick and book = ladrillos y libros. [Expresión utilizada para referirse tanto al edificio de la biblioteca como a su contenido y distinguirlo de la 'biblioteca virtual']
Example: Challenging the technocratic vision of 'virtual libraries' linking people to knowledge, librarians in Southern Africa say their 'brick and book' buildings will remain the primary information centres for communities for some time to come.» brick and click library = biblioteca tradicional y virtual, biblioteca híbrida. [Biblioteca que combina los recursos tradicionales principalmente impresos con los recursos electrónicos modernos]
Example: The 'Brick and Click Libraries Symposium' is a one-day regional symposium of relevance to academic libraries supporting traditional and online resources/services.» brick and frame = básico, de construcción básica. [Usado normalmente de viviendas]
Example: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.» brick and mortar library = biblioteca tradicional, biblioteca física.
Example: The author considers what can and cannot be done with a virtual library, and analyses the relationship between virtual libraries and brick and mortar libraries.» bricklaying = albañilería, mampostería.
Example: As an introduction to bricklaying, we discribe how to build a simple garden wall.» bricks and mortar = edificios, propiedades.
Example: As information incumbents, large academic libraries are saddled with legacy assets, such as huge stores of books, public service systems, acquisitions, cataloguing, and bricks and mortar.» brick(s) and mortar = tradicional, no virtual. [Adjetivo]
Example: Advocates of the virtual university assume that the Internet can be used to replace the bricks and mortar campus.» bricks-and-mortar = de ladrillo y cemento.
Example: We now have the sound, solid construction of our bricks-and-mortar modern houses, but in Shakespeare's lifetime most ordinary houses were made of wattle and daub.» brick wall = muro de ladrillo, pared de ladrillo.
Example: Salt efflorescence on the brick wall there shows seasonal changes with an annual cycle.» brickwork = mampostería de ladrillo.
Example: It's amazing what a lick of paint and a scrubbing brush can do to brighten your brickwork!.» come down on + Nombre + like a ton of bricks = echarle los perros a, echar una buena bronca.
Example: Sometimes the police tolerated them for a bit but sometimes they came down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they twigged what they were up to.» drop + Nombre + like a hot brick = no querer saber más nada de.
Example: The public is equally quick to worship a winner as to drop a loser like a hot brick.» firebrick = ladrillo refractario.
Example: Firebrick is set with a runny mix of clay and water, not with mortar.» fireclay brick = ladrillo refractario.
Example: In blast furnaces, the lining is done almost entirely with fireclay bricks.» fireproof brick = ladrillo refractario.
Example: The combustion chamber is lined with fireproof bricks.» follow + the yellow brick road to = seguir el camino hacia, seguir el camino de. [Generalmente usado en sentido metáforico y referido a la felicidad o el éxito]
Example: I had bariatric surgery over ten years ago and since then I've followed the yellow brick road to healthier living.» lay + bricks = poner ladrillos.
Example: It was a huge space with hundreds of workers, some digging ditches, some mixing cement, some laying bricks and one chiseling a piece of marble into a statue.» laying of bricks = poner ladrillos.
Example: Just as Ivan finds that by taking pleasure in the laying of bricks as his day's work, he makes survival possible and beats Stalin and his jailors at heir own game.» make + bricks without straw = intentar hacer Algo sin contar con los medios necesarios.
Example: Reference librarians can no more make bricks without straw that could the Israelites of old.» mud brick = ladrillo de adobe.
Example: Mud brick has been one of the principal building materials in Egypt since prehistoric times.» mud-brick house = casa de ladrillos de adobe.
Example: Although rain is extremely scarce in Jericho, if it occurred, the mud-brick houses would collapse and turn into mud.» shit + bricks = cagarse de miedo, cagarse por la pata abajo.
Example: Such kids need to be locked in bathrooms with rabid dogs, those who don't bite but are loud enough to make them shit bricks.