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派生語

• hit a brick wall

関連する語

• brick-wall limiter
• like talking to a wall
• stonewall

動詞

brick wall (三人称単数 現在形 brick walls, 現在分詞 brick walling, 過去形および過去分詞形 brick walled)

1. To build a brick wall around.
   • 2013, Cyril A. Peters, Ignoble Imitation, →ISBN, page 98:

     They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it.

2. (sound engineering) To filter using a brick wall filter.
   • 2005, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Instant Digital Audio, →ISBN, page 77:

     Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow. Audio recorded too loud will distort in the analog world, and will simply "brick wall" in digital terms.

3. To halt or limit abruptly.
   • 2012, Geoff Dyer, The Colour of Memory, →ISBN:

     The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there.

   • 2017 August 21, Bradford Doolittle, “Justin Verlander's domination of Dodgers looked like Astros audition”, in ESPN:

     Baseball's unstoppable force -- the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers -- ran smack into peak-form Verlander, who brick-walled their six-game winning streak.

4. To be uncooperative and unresponsive.
   • 2012, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars, →ISBN:

     They wanted to know how successful the attack had been. But you brick-walled them.

   • 2012, Virdean, Making the Rules, →ISBN:

     My rapid dial wouldn't work, and when I was finally able to get a Homeland Security office phone number to reach you, the receptionist brick walled me.

   • 2017, Lauren Layne, Ready To Run: I Do, I Don't, →ISBN:

     But he'd brick-walled her on something that obviously caused him pain.