Meaning of brake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
3. Certain ferns, including
   countable, uncountable
4. Any fern in the genus Pteris.
   countable, uncountable
5. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
6. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
7. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
8. A cage.
   obsolete
9. To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
10. Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
    countable, uncountable
11. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
12. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
13. A type of torture instrument.
    historical
14. A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.
15. An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
16. An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake
17. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
18. An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.
19. Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
    figuratively
20. Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc
21. A high horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.
22. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
23. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. The winch of a crossbow
24. A past tense of break.
25. The winch of a crossbow.
    obsolete
26. a place overgrown with bushes, brambles, or cane.
27. The handle of a pump.
28. pt. of break.
29. A baker’s kneading trough.
30. An instrument or means of restraining:bit, bridle, leash, restraint, snaffle.
31. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
32. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
33. To control, restrict, or arrest:bit, bridle, check, constrain, curb, hold, hold back, hold down, hold in, inhibit, keep, keep back, pull in, rein (back, in, or up), restrain.
    or
34. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
35. to slow down or stop. He braked (the car) suddenly. rem, briek يكبح спирам frear (za)brzdit bremsen bremse φρενάρωfrenar pidurdama کند کردن؛ وایستاندن jarruttaa freiner לִבְלוֹם, לַעֲצוֹר धीमे करना, रोकना kočiti fékez mengerem hemla frenare ブレーキをかける 브레이크를 걸다 sustabdyti bremzēt berhenti remmenbremsehamować کیندل، اودریدل travar a frâna тормозить zabrzdiť zavirati kočiti bromsa หยุด fren yapmak 煞車 гальмувати گاڑی کو بریک لگانا phanh lại 刹车
36. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
37. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
38. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Equivalents

Examples

“She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.”

“You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.”

“Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.”

“Give the car a quick brake.”

“You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake.”

“He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.”

“It had been arranged as part of the day’s programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.”

“A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.”

“Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.”

“He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.”

“He halts, and searches with his eyes Among the scatter’d rocks: And now at distance can discern A stirring in a brake of fern […]”

“The bird, with its fellow in the break, drummed, and whirred, and to the misfortune of its species made its plumage seem a prize to them.”

“Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.”

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