brick

v. close or pave with bricks, build with bricks; prepare bricks

n. building block; block; generous person, good person

adj. made from bricks; resembling a brick

A brick is red and bad for your teeth.
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BRIC or BRICs are terms used in economics to refer to the combination of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. General consensus is that the term was first prominently used in a thesis of the Goldman Sachs investment bank. The main point of this 2003 paper was to argue that the economies of the BRICs are rapidly developing and by the year 2050 will eclipse most of the current richest countries of the world. Finally, because of the popularity of the Goldman Sachs thesis "BRIC" and "BRIMC" (M for Mexico), these terms are also extended to "BRICS" (S for South Africa), "BRICA" (GCC Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE) and "BRICET" (including Eastern Europe and Turkey) have become more generic marketing terms to refer to these emerging markets.
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Noun
1. rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
(hypernym) ceramic
(hyponym) adobe, adobe brick
(substance-meronym) clay
2. a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
(hypernym) good person

n. brig

(v. t.)
To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
  

(v. t.)
To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.
  

(n.)
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
  

(n.)
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
  

(n.)
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
  

(n.)
A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.