For the same reason most things are called what they are. At some point someone said "this is a brick" and the name stuck.
The compressive stength of brick is load bearing value as tested in lab or it may be called as crushing stregth value. This value should not be less than 105kg/ centimeter sqare for a standard sized brick.
A brick..?
There is not a well known answer but the first brick was the mud brick and it was invented invented before 7500 B.C (before Christ)
Brick can be cut with a water cooled saw, they can usually be rented from a rental shop or builder's supply store. Most mason's are good enough with a mason's hammer to split a brick to the appropriate size for laying brick on the side of a building. With a brick cutter.
A course of brick is an entire horizontal row of bricks.
just that a brick
An Adobe Brick
A brick kiln.
Solid
I have heard about something called brick veneer, but I'm not sure what it is. What is brick veneer made of?
A flat topped mud brick tomb is called a mastaba.
I assume it's just the bottom. It might be called the base of the brick though.
If a person is called a brick maker that means he makes bricks.
They can be called "hand tossed"
Adobe is the Spanish name for a sun-dried brick.
Adobe is the Spanish name for a sun-dried brick.
ADOBE