brick vs retrofit

brick

verb
  • To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick. 

  • To blunder; to screw up. 

  • To make into bricks. 

  • To build, line, or form with bricks. 

  • To hit someone or something with a brick. 

noun
  • A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object. 

  • A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug. 

  • A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. 

  • The colour brick red. 

  • An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. 

  • A projectile. 

  • Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. 

  • A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. 

  • A kilogram of cocaine. 

  • Something shaped like a brick. 

  • A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. 

adj
  • Extremely cold. 

retrofit

verb
  • To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed. 

  • To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize. 

  • Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”) 

  • To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances. 

  • To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc. 

noun
  • An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting. 

  • A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed. 

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