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brick walls

brick walls is the plural of brick wall.

brick walls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brick wall.

Meaning of brick wall

Noun

brick wall (plural brick walls)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.
  2. (figuratively) An obstacle.
    • The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas.
  3. (sound engineering) A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff.
    • One of the first problems with the digital audio process is the use of brick wall filters with very steep slopes for anti-aliasing and anti-imaging purposes.2005, Daniel M. Thompson, Understanding Audio, →ISBN
  4. (figuratively) Someone who is silent or unresponsive.
    • When mama says she doesn't talk, she means it. She's a brick wall.1987, National Thespian Dramatic Honor Society for High Schools, Dramatics, volume 59, page 23

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Questions about brick walls

What is brick walls the plural of?
Brick walls is the plural of brick wall.

Words near brick walls in the dictionary

  1. brick veneers
  2. brick venereal disease
  3. brick wall
  4. brick walled
  5. brick walling
  6. brick walls
  7. brick-a-brack
  8. brick-and-mortar
  9. brick-breaker
  10. brick-breakers
  11. brick-buster

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