brick wall
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.18 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.
noun
An obstacle.
noun
A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff.
noun
Someone who is silent or unresponsive.
verb
To be uncooperative and unresponsive.
Example Sentences
- "The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas."
- "They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973."
- "One of the first problems with the digital audio process is the use of brick wall filters with very steep slopes for anti-aliasing and anti-imaging purposes."
- "To reconstruct the sampled signal, an ideal brick wall filter is demanded to remove the output of band signal."
- "For example, a first order filter can be converted to a brick wall filter by multiplying by the brick wall factor 1.57."
- "When mama says she doesn't talk, she means it. She's a brick wall."
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
brickwalled