brick wall vs occlusive

brick wall

noun
  • A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks. 

  • Someone who is silent or unresponsive. 

  • An obstacle. 

verb
  • To halt or limit abruptly. 

  • To build a brick wall around. 

  • To be uncooperative and unresponsive. 

  • To filter using a brick wall filter. 

occlusive

noun
  • A product that forms a protective film and traps moisture against the skin. 

  • A phoneme produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract. 

adj
  • That tends to occlude. 

How often have the words brick wall and occlusive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )