brick

block or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction
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brick

Summary

brick ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (782 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • brick's manufacturer is recorded as brickmaker[2].
  • brick is made of clay[3].
  • brick is made of loam[4].
  • brick is made of clinker brick[5].
  • brick is a type of building material[6].
  • brick is a type of brick[7].
  • brick's Commons category is recorded as Bricks[8].
  • brick's Unicode character is recorded as 🧱[9].
  • brick's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bricks[10].
  • brick's Commons gallery is recorded as Brick[11].
  • brick's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as building:material=brick[12].
  • brick's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[13].
  • brick's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • brick's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • brick's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[16].
  • brick's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17].
  • brick's used by is recorded as bricklayer[18].
  • brick's used by is recorded as construction worker[19].
  • brick's used by is recorded as brick stamp[20].
  • brick's different from is recorded as Q94440495[21].
  • brick's different from is recorded as tile[22].
  • brick's MCN code is recorded as 6901.00.10[23].
  • brick's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000475[24].
  • brick's exact match is recorded as https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=brickbrick[25].
  • brick's exact match is recorded as https://ids.clld.org/parameters/7-620[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include building material[6] and brick[7].

Use and Application

Recorded used by include bricklayer[18], construction worker[19], and brick stamp[20].

Why It Matters

brick ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (782 views/month).[1] brick has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] brick is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . vocabularies.unesco.org. Retrieved . vocabularies.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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