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单词 brake
释义 brake
1.
n. & v.
--n
  1. (often in pl.) a device for checking the motion of a mechanism, esp. a wheel or vehicle, or for keeping it at rest.
  2. anything that has the effect of hindering or impeding (shortage of money was a brake on their enthusiasm).
--v
  1. intr. apply a brake.
  2. tr. retard or stop with a brake.
Phrases and idioms
brake block a block used to hold a brake shoe. brake drum a cylinder attached to a wheel on which the brake shoe presses to brake. brake fluid fluid used in a hydraulic brake system. brake horsepower the power of an engine reckoned in terms of the force needed to brake it. brake lining a strip of fabric which increases the friction of the brake shoe. brake shoe a long curved block which presses on the brake drum to brake. brake van Brit. a railway coach or vehicle from which the train's brakes can be controlled.
Derivatives
brakeless adj.
Etymology: prob. obs. brake in sense 'machine-handle, bridle'
2.
n. a large estate car.
Etymology: var. of BREAK(2)
3.
n. & v.
--n
  1. a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.
  2. (in full brake harrow) a heavy kind of harrow for breaking up large lumps of earth.
--vtr. crush (flax or hemp) by beating it.
Etymology: ME, rel. to BREAK(1)
4.
n.
  1. a thicket.
  2. brushwood.
Etymology: ME f. OF bracu, MLG brake branch, stump
5.
n. bracken.
Etymology: ME, perh. shortened f. BRACKEN, -en being taken as a pl. ending
6.
archaic past of BREAK(1).
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