The difference between Brick and Unbrick
When used as verbs, brick means to build with bricks, whereas unbrick means to reopen something bricked up.
Brick is also noun with the meaning: a hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Brick is also adjective with the meaning: extremely cold.
check bellow for the other definitions of Brick and Unbrick
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Brick as a noun (countable):
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Examples:
"This wall is made of bricks''."
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Brick as a noun (uncountable):
Considered collectively, as a building material.
Examples:
"This house is made of brick''."
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Brick as a noun (countable):
Something shaped like a brick.
Examples:
"a plastic explosive brick"
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Brick as a noun (slang, dated):
A helpful and reliable person.
Examples:
"Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick."
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Brick as a noun (basketball, slang):
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.
Examples:
"We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land."
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Brick as a noun (informal):
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.
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Brick as a noun (technology, slang):
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
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Brick as a noun (firearms):
A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
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Brick as a noun (poker slang):
A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
Examples:
"The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river"
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Brick as a noun:
The colour brick red.
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Brick as an adjective (colloquial, AAVE, New England, of weather):
Extremely cold.
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Brick as a verb:
To build with bricks.
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Brick as a verb:
To make into bricks.
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Brick as a verb (slang):
To hit someone or something with a brick.
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Brick as a verb (computing, _, slang):
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
Examples:
"My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm''."
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Unbrick as a verb (transitive):
To reopen something bricked up.
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Unbrick as a verb (transitive, slang, computing):
To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).