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brick-making machine

brick-making machine

4.5
A machine that makes bricks from clay or other materials
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : máquina de fabricar ladrillos
  • The new brick-making machine arrived yesterday.

Examples

  • The factory installed a new brick-making machine to increase production efficiency.

  • A modern brick-making machine can produce thousands of bricks per hour.

  • Maintenance of the brick-making machine is essential to ensure consistent quality.

  • I need to buy a brick-making machine for my factory.

  • The factory invested in a modern brick-making machine to increase production efficiency.

  • During the tour, we saw a brick-making machine that could produce thousands of bricks a day.

  • The engineers designed a brick-making machine that uses recycled materials for sustainable construction.

Synonyms

brickmaking machine
vsbrick-making machine
  • Specialized
5.1

A machine that makes bricks from clay or similar material

is the hyphenated or separated form used identically in industry
brick machine
vsbrick-making machine
  • Specialized
4.2

A machine that makes bricks from clay

is framed as a designed device focusing on manufacturing purpose
brick-molding machine
vsbrick-making machine
  • Specialized
7.0

A machine that shapes wet clay into bricks

is broader and covers full manufacture rather than only shaping

How Automated

flowline
  • Specialized
5.6
brick-making machine
  • Specialized
4.5
press
141 4.1

Surface Forms

brick-making machine singular
brick-making machines plural

Morphology

brick-making + machine

The phrase is compositionally built: 'brick-making' denotes the activity of making bricks and modifies 'machine', so the overall meaning 'a machine that makes bricks' is directly derivable from the parts. This noun-modifier + machine pattern is productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'brick', 'make/making', and 'machine' would readily understand it.

Etymology

Brick-making machine names its job: a machine that makes bricks by pressing wet clay into shapes and then drying or baking them. So it simply means 'a machine used to produce bricks'.