Sekirov Dictionary

brick wall

verb 4
noun 3
forms 3

verb4

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To build a brick wall around.
- They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it. — 2013
•
To be uncooperative and unresponsive.
- They wanted to know how successful the attack had been. But you brick-walled them. — 2012
•
To halt or limit abruptly.
- The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there. — 2012
To filter using a brick wall filter.

noun3

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(figurative) 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.
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(figurative) Someone who is silent or unresponsive.
- When mama says she doesn't talk, she means it. She's a brick wall. — 1987
•
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

forms

brick walled · brick walling · brick walls

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