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Meaning of "bricking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BRICKING

bricking  [ˈbrɪkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BRICKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bricking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BRICKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Brick (electronics)

The word "brick", when used in reference to consumer electronics, describes an electronic device such as a smart phone, game console, router, or tablet computer that, due to a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function. The term derives from the vaguely cuboid shape of many electronic devices and the suggestion that the device can function only as a lifeless, square object or paperweight. The term is also commonly used as a verb. For example, "I bricked my MP3 player when I tried to modify its firmware." In the common usage of the term, "bricking" suggests that the damage is so serious as to have rendered the device permanently unusable.

Definition of bricking in the English dictionary

The definition of bricking in the dictionary is the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BRICKING


baking
ˈbeɪkɪŋ
braking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breaking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breathtaking
ˈbrɛθˌteɪkɪŋ
clicking
ˈklɪkɪŋ
decision-making
dɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪkɪŋ
fabricking
ˈfæbrɪkɪŋ
fricking
ˈfrɪkɪŋ
hiking
ˈhaɪkɪŋ
licking
ˈlɪkɪŋ
liking
ˈlaɪkɪŋ
making
ˈmeɪkɪŋ
picking
ˈpɪkɪŋ
pricking
ˈprɪkɪŋ
striking
ˈstraɪkɪŋ
taking
ˈteɪkɪŋ
trafficking
ˈtræfɪkɪŋ
undertaking
ˈʌndəˌteɪkɪŋ
Viking
ˈvaɪkɪŋ
waking
ˈweɪkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BRICKING

brick wall
brick-built
brick-kiln
brickbat
brickclay
brickearth
bricken
brickfield
brickfielder
brickie
bricklayer
bricklaying
bricklike
brickmaker
brickmaking
brickor mortis
bricks and clicks
bricks and mortar
bricks-and-clicks
bricks-and-mortar

WORDS THAT END LIKE BRICKING

attacking
backing
banking
blocking
checking
cracking
docking
fucking
hacking
kicking
lacking
locking
mocking
overclocking
packing
rocking
shocking
stocking
sucking
tracking
trucking

Synonyms and antonyms of bricking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bricking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BRICKING

Find out the translation of bricking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bricking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bricking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

砌体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bricking
570 millions of speakers

English

bricking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bricking
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

bricking
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кирпичной кладки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bricking
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bricking
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bricker
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bricking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bricking
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bricking
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bricking
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bricking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bricking
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bricking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्रिकिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bricking
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rivestimento in mattoni
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wmurowania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цегляної кладки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zidarie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bricking
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Verstening stad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bricking
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bricking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bricking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BRICKING»

The term «bricking» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.326 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BRICKING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bricking» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bricking» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bricking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRICKING»

Discover the use of bricking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bricking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Refractory Engineering: Materials - Design - Construction
5.3.4 Bricking Center and Bricking Scaffolding In a special sense, when bricking arches or crowns usually it will not be possible to work without forms/molds. The arches and crowns are not self-supporting until the specific layers or ring layers ...
Stephan Schalm, 2005
2
GPU-Based Interactive Visualization Techniques
The lines inside the bricks indicate the orientation of internal slices for the corresponding 3D texture bricking is chosen, i.e., the smaller the sub-volumes become. On the other hand, finer granularity leads to a larger number of slicing polygons ...
Daniel Weiskopf, 2006
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The Geologist
4 2 4 Stony bind. O'.i 1 2 i Blue bind. 110 0 1 n Black shale. 7'i n 1 2 Coal and bat. 111 1 2 4 Light clunch. 71 1 2 6 Light clnnch. 112 3 0 6 Grey stone. - -> ij> II 1 Dark stone. 113 1 0 t Stony bind. 5th bricking i ~ Light stone. 73 0 0 1) corb, Aug.
Samuel Joseph Mackie, 1862
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Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society
When the sinking had reached a depth of 37 feet below the bottom of the tubbing, a double bricking-ring was put in, formed by placing one ring, 9 inches wide and 8 inches thick, inside another, and bolting them together with pieces of plank, ...
5
Vesuvius: Interactive Atmospheric Visualization in a Virtual ...
This is because some sort of bricking is necessary to store a data set into a 3D texture. This bricking requirement limits the rendering by the bandwidth between the GPU and the computer memory. In addition, bricking increases the memory ...
Michael P. Dye, 2007
6
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the ...
'bricking' rival crews from a suitably safe distance. An open site behind the south end of the ground provided ample ammunition and, atthetime of the research, itwas usuallynot adequately policed. 'Bricking' was dangerous, of course—in many ...
Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, Patrick J Murphy, 2002
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Visualization Handbook
Examples of these tools are volume bricking and ray-tracing. 31.4.4.1 While volume rendering can be performed in hardware on most modern graphics processing units (GPUs) via 3D texture mapping, the amount of memory available on a ...
Charles D. Hansen, Chris R. Johnson, 2011
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The Cemeteries of Abydos
In the first place, the absence of bricking at the entrance of the chamber is no. proof of re-use, for this bricking is quite regularly omitted in untouched tombs of this period: there are numerous examples of this in the VIth Dynasty cemetery in ...
Édouard Naville, T. Eric Peet, 2014
9
Gifts from the Poor: What the World's Patients Taught One ...
CHAPTER. TWELVE. Bricking. Up. the. Leper. Door. GLENN LAUNCHES EVERY MISSION WITH THE SAME REMINDER TO participants: Indigenous peoples' cultures, beliefs and customs must be treated with respect. And yet, on some ...
Glenn W. Geelhoed, 2011
10
Quake 4 Mods For Dummies
Bricking. Up. the. Joint. I was able to take a picture of a wall that will work well as a texture. In Figure 15-1, you can see that my picture has well-defined features. There is nice contrast between the bricks that are sticking out and the joints ...
Erik Guilfoyle, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRICKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bricking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Popstars winner Daniela Scala auditioned for The Voice …
Bricking it: Scott Newnham with the TV host formerly known as Andrew G in 2009. The 26-year-old's backstory mentioned his new career as a ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
2
How to back up and restore OnePlus One via EFS one-click tool
OnePlus One users who often indulge in rooting or installing custom ROMs and recovery tools might sometimes end up bricking their device. «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
3
New Life for Former St. Andrew's Inn Among Changes Coming to …
... including re-bricking St. Andrew's Broadway-facing exterior and restoring window openings, according to Jennifer Hackman, the Chamber's ... «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
4
Chinese Consumer Rights Group Takes Legal Action Against …
If the process of rooting is not followed correctly, there is small chance of bricking, which means that the phone will become as useless as a ... «BizTek Mojo, Jul 15»
5
Tyler Police substation on track to open in early 2016
... but water service has not been connected. Next week, workers will begin bricking the outside walls, and the roof will start to take shape. «Tyler Morning Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
'Kill switch' reduces smartphone thefts: Study
The "kill switch" option allows the owners to remotely disable, or "kill", their phone if it is stolen. The process is also known as "bricking" ... «ET Telecom, Jul 15»
7
Windows 10 roll out takes shape: The pain is gone and enough …
In my own brilliance tried to put a copy on my CEO's laptop effectively bricking it and that was one of several times that year I came very close to ... «TechSpective, Jul 15»
8
Ex-Xbox Boss: Red Ring of Death was 'sickening'
Ex-Xbox boss (and now EA head) Peter Moore has admitted that when he learned about Xbox 360s bricking courtesy of the now infamous ... «Destructoid, Jul 15»
9
Study: kill switches reduced smartphone thefts almost 33% in one year
The process is also known as “bricking” – transforming the phone from a valuable piece of electronic equipment into a mere plastic brick. «ConsumerAffairs, Jul 15»
10
Mystics vs. Fever final score: Washington gets blown out for the first …
But still, bricking shots and the high number of turnovers like the Mystics did on Thursday is simply pathetic. This is especially the case when ... «Bullets Forever, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bricking [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bricking>. Apr 2024 ».
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