Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks. / (figuratively) An obstacle. / (sound engineering) A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff.

To build a brick wall around. / (sound engineering) To filter using a brick wall filter. / To halt or limit abruptly. / To be uncooperative and unresponsive.

plural of brick wall

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brick wall

present participle of brick wall

simple past tense and past participle of brick wall

Having walls made of brick.

plural of brick-wall limiter

(electronics) A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.

Alternative form of hit a wall