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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024brake1 /breɪk/USA pronunciation n., v., braked, brak•ing. n. [countable] - Automotivea device for slowing or stopping a vehicle or other moving mechanism, usually by friction.
- Automotivebrakes, [plural] the drums, shoes, etc., making up such a device on a vehicle:The brakes need adjusting.
- anything that has a slowing or stopping effect:He seemed to act like a brake on our momentum.
v. - to slow or stop by or as if by a brake: [~ + object]He braked the car with a lurch.[no object]She braked carefully in the snow.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024brake1 (brāk),USA pronunciation n., v., braked, brak•ing. n. - Automotivea device for slowing or stopping a vehicle or other moving mechanism by the absorption or transfer of the energy of momentum, usually by means of friction.
- Automotive brakes, the drums, shoes, tubes, levers, etc., making up such a device on a vehicle.
- anything that has a slowing or stopping effect.
- SportAlso called brakeman. a member of a bobsled team who operates the brake.
- TextilesAlso called breaker. a tool or machine for breaking up flax or hemp, to separate the fiber.
- Mechanical Engineering, MetallurgyAlso called press brake. a machine for bending sheet metal to a desired shape.
- [Obs.]an old instrument of torture.
v.t. - to slow or stop by means of or as if by means of a brake.
- to furnish with brakes.
- Textilesto process (flax or hemp) by crushing it in a brake.
v.i. - to use or run a brake.
- to stop or slow upon being braked.
- Mechanical Engineeringto run a hoisting machine.
- Middle Dutch, Middle Low German; akin to break
- late Middle English 1400–50
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . halt, arrest, stay, restrain; curb, curtail.
brake2 (brāk),USA pronunciation n. - a place overgrown with bushes, brambles, or cane.
- Middle Low German brake thicket
- late Middle English (in phrase brake of fern thicket of fern) 1400–50
- Plant Biologyany of several large or coarse ferns, esp. the bracken, Pteridium aquilinum.
- Middle English brake, probably by back formation from braken bracken, taken as plural 1275–1325
- pt. of break.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: brake /breɪk/ n - (often plural) a device for slowing or stopping a vehicle, wheel, shaft, etc, or for keeping it stationary, esp by means of friction
- a machine or tool for crushing or breaking flax or hemp to separate the fibres
- Also called: brake harrow a heavy harrow for breaking up clods
- short for shooting brake
vb - to slow down or cause to slow down, by or as if by using a brake
- (transitive) to crush or break up using a brake
Etymology: 18th Century: from Middle Dutch braeke; related to breken to breakˈbrakeless adj brake /breɪk/ n - an area of dense undergrowth, shrubs, brushwood, etc; thicket
Etymology: Old English bracu; related to Middle Low German brake, Old French bracon branch brake /breɪk/ n - another name for bracken
brake /breɪk/ vb - archaic chiefly biblical
a past tense of break
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