brick machine
- noun
- /brɪk məˈʃin/
- Specialized
:
máquina de ladrillos
- Early versions of the brick machine required manual labor to operate.
Examples
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The new factory installed an automatic brick machine to increase production efficiency.
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A modern brick machine can produce thousands of uniform bricks every hour.
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The new brick machine arrived last week.
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They use a brick machine to produce high-quality bricks.
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The brick machine automatically shapes and molds clay into bricks for construction.
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At the factory, workers operate the brick machine to produce thousands of bricks daily.
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After receiving training, he learned how to efficiently run the brick machine to streamline production.
Synonyms
A machine that makes bricks from clay or similar material
A machine that makes bricks from clay or other materials
A machine that shapes wet clay into bricks
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'brick' (a building block) with 'machine' (a powered device), indicating a machine for making or processing bricks. This noun–noun compound follows standard productive English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically straightforward, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Brick machine comes from the simple idea of brick + machine. Picture soft clay pushed into a mold, pressed and dried into a neat brick, and you can see why the name means 'a machine used to make bricks'.
