brick
block or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction
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Summary
brick ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,928 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Manufacturer: brickmaker[2]
- Made from material: clay[3], loam[4], clinker brick[5]
- Subclass of: building material[6], brick[7]
- Commons category: Bricks[8]
- Unicode character: 🧱[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Bricks[10]
- Commons gallery: Brick[11]
- OpenStreetMap tag: building:material=brick[12]
- Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], The American Cyclopædia[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[18], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21]
- Used by: bricklayer[22], construction worker[23], brick stamp[24]
- Different from: Cegła (ujednoznacznienie)[25], tile[26]
- MCN code: 6901.00.10[27]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000475[28], https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=brickbrick[29], https://ids.clld.org/parameters/7-620[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
Why It Matters
brick has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] brick is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]