brick vs tawny

brick

noun
  • The colour brick red. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To blunder; to screw up. 

  • To make into bricks. 

  • To build, line, or form with bricks. 

  • To hit someone or something with a brick. 

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

adj
  • Extremely cold. 

tawny

noun
  • A light brown to brownish orange colour. 

  • Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”) 

  • In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks. 

  • Tawny owl. 

  • Tawny frogmouth. 

  • The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula). 

  • Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name). 

adj
  • Of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 

verb
  • To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

  • To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

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