ANTONOMASIA
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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ANTONOMASIA [Stress: ‘an-to-no-MAY-zy-a’].
1. In
RHETORIC, the use of an
EPITHET to acknowledge a quality in one person or place by using the name of another person or place already known for that quality:
Henry is the local Casanova;
Cambridge is England's Silicon Valley.
2. The use of an epithet instead of the name of a person or thing:
the Swan of Avon William Shakespeare.
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Brick Association of the Carolinas and Southern Brick Institute Merge to Form Leading Brick Trade Organization.
Business Wire; 1/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...will serve as executive director of the new organization. Brick SouthEast is comprised of 17 brick manufacturing company members including Boral Bricks, Inc.; Carolina Ceramics Brick Company; Cherokee Brick & Tile Company; Columbus Brick...
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Brick timeless favorite for homes, commercial buildings
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Business Journal; 3/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...founder. Columbus Brick Company produces about 150 million bricks per year. But that...than one billion bricks per year. Columbus Brick is a private, family...colors and textures of bricks," Warlick said. "There are brick showrooms where customers...
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Bricks as garden paving; you can use bricks in all kinds of situations ... and patterns.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 8/1/1991; 700+ words
; ...medium, and light bricks in the same batch...achieved by "flashing" brick in the kiln. Flashed...instance, not all brick works for a basket...right). For the bricks to nest properly...several kinds of brick in a pattern, make...widths of all the bricks are exactly the same...
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Brick handling system gets face-lift.
Magazine article from: Ceramic Industry; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Late in 1992, Darlington Brick, Darlington, Pa., asked Basic Machinery...City, N.C., to design and install a brick handling system that would meet the following...Increase production from 25,000 brick/hr to 32,000 brick/hr. * Add the...
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Brick timeless favorite for homes, commercial buildings: industry orgs unite to form Brick Southeast.
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 3/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...founder. Columbus Brick Company produces about 150 million bricks per year. But that...than one billion bricks per year. Columbus Brick is a private, family...colors and textures of bricks," Warlick said. "There are brick showrooms where customers...
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Brick by brick Company's handmade bricks stack up well against the competition
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...employees make handmade bricks at Old Mississippi Brick Co. Some machinery...want old-looking brick for "the look...texture." If the bricks are used on a new...have a beautiful brick." The "cookie-cutter" bricks created by machine...
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HANDMADE BRICKS LOOKING OLD IS THEIR BEST FEATURE.(AT HOME)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 1/12/2002; 700+ words
; ...employees make handmade bricks at Old Mississippi Brick Co. Some machinery...want old-looking brick for ''the look...texture.'' If the bricks are used on a new...have a beautiful brick. I can enjoy the...cookie-cutter'' bricks created by machine...
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BRICK: IN THE YARD AS WELL AS IN THE HOUSE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/21/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...thing to remember is that common brick (the least expensive of bricks) does not stand up very well...can buy stone dust where you buy bricks. Also important for a brick patio is a border, to keep the bricks from spreading. A border is necessary...
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Brick Industry Honors Excellence in Environmental Stewardship & Employee Health and Safety Programs.
PR Newswire; 4/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...Worth, TX-based Acme Brick won for its "Perla Plant...in which un-fired brick waste is re-cycled...Roswell, GA-based Boral Bricks won for its "Journey...heat from the mass of bricks exiting the kiln was...based Lawrenceville Brick used its "Scrubber Waste...
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Boral bricks, stone and pavers lend charming, old-world style to any home.(The Ultimate Family Home 2004)
Magazine article from: Builder; 1/1/2004; 700+ words
; Boral Bricks is America's largest brick manufacturer, leading the industry with a manufacturing...Boral Bricks, Boral Stone and Boral Pavers. BORAL BRICKS Boral Bricks offers the largest brick selection in the country, including more than 150...
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brick
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...attractive brown-purple brick, or bricks discoloured with stripes...Loudon's hollow wall ; common brick: cheap bricks used where appearance or strength...of common bricks;coping bricks: like a capping-brick , used for copings, with...
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Brick
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...written documentation of brick production — the Israelites made bricks for their Egyptian...developed kiln-baked bricks and spread the art of brick making throughout...Hemisphere is the adobe brick. Adobe bricks are made from adobe...
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Ibstock Brick Ltd.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...suitable for making brick. Over the next ten...was developed, but bricks were strictly a by...Increasing Popularity of Brick: Early 1900s Brickmaking...twentieth century, as bricks became a popular...capacity to nine million bricks a year. Reflecting...its name to Ibstock Brick & ...
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bricks
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...metaphorical phrase, to make bricks without straw ). The saying...give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them...themselves in order to make the bricks required by their Egyptian...the current sense. See also brick .
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arch-brick
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
arch-brick. Wedge-shaped brick (called compass-brick , feather-edged brick , or voussoir ) for constructing an arch or a wall curved on plan.
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