What does brake mean?
Definitions for brake
breɪkbrake
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word brake.
Princeton's WordNet
brakenoun
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
brakenoun
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinumnoun
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
brakenoun
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
brakeverb
anything that slows or hinders a process
"she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage"; "new legislation will put the brakes on spending"
brakeverb
stop travelling by applying a brake
"We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
brakeverb
cause to stop by applying the brakes
"brake the car before you go into a curve"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BRAKEnoun
A thicket of brambles, or of thorns.
Etymology: of uncertain etymology.
A dog of this town used daily to fetch meat, and to carry the same unto a blind mastiff, that lay in a brake without the town. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwal.
If I’m traduc’d by tongues, which neither know
My faculties nor person; let me say,
’Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
That virtue must go through. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.In every bush and brake, where hap may find
The serpent sleeping. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix. l. 160.Full little thought of him the gentle knight,
Who, flying death, had there conceal’d his flight;
In brakes and brambles hid, and shunning mortal sight. John Dryden, Fables.Brakenoun
Brakethe preterite of break.
He thought it sufficient to correct the multitude with sharp words, and brake out into this cholerick speech. Richard Knolles, Hist.
Wikipedia
Brake
A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction.
ChatGPT
brake
A brake is a device or mechanism used in vehicles, machines, or any moving equipment to reduce speed or halt movement, often by means of friction. It is a safety feature to control or stop the motion, usually by converting kinetic energy into heat.
Webster Dictionary
Brake
imp. of Break
Brakenoun
a fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern
Brakenoun
a thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes
Brakeverb
an instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber
Brakeverb
an extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine
Brakeverb
a baker's kneading though
Brakeverb
a sharp bit or snaffle
Brakeverb
a frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc
Brakeverb
that part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn
Brakeverb
an ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista
Brakeverb
a large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag
Brakeverb
a piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine
Brakeverb
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
Brakeverb
a cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses
Brakeverb
an ancient instrument of torture
Brake
of Break
Wikidata
Brake
A brake is a mechanical device which inhibits motion. The rest of this article is dedicated to various types of vehicular brakes. Most commonly brakes use friction to convert kinetic energy into heat, though other methods of energy conversion may be employed. For example regenerative braking converts much of the energy to electrical energy, which may be stored for later use. Other methods convert kinetic energy into potential energy in such stored forms as pressurized air or pressurized oil. Eddy current brakes use magnetic fields to convert kinetic energy into electric current in the brake disc, fin, or rail, which is converted into heat. Still other braking methods even transform kinetic energy into different forms, for example by transferring the energy to a rotating flywheel. Brakes are generally applied to rotating axles or wheels, but may also take other forms such as the surface of a moving fluid. Some vehicles use a combination of braking mechanisms, such as drag racing cars with both wheel brakes and a parachute, or airplanes with both wheel brakes and drag flaps raised into the air during landing. Since kinetic energy increases quadratically with velocity, an object moving at 10 m/s has 100 times as much energy as one of the same mass moving at 1 m/s, and consequently the theoretical braking distance, when braking at the traction limit, is 100 times as long. In practice, fast vehicles usually have significant air drag, and energy lost to air drag rises quickly with speed.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brake
brāk, obsolete, pa.t. of Break.
Brake
brāk, n. a fern: a place overgrown with ferns or briers; a thicket.—adj. Brak′y. [A doublet of Bracken; ety. dub.]
Brake
brāk, n. an instrument to break flax or hemp: a harrow: a contrivance for retarding by friction the speed of carriages, wagons, trains, or revolving drums.—adj. Brake′less, without a brake.—ns. Brake′man, the man whose business it is to manage the brake of a railway-train; Brake′-van, the carriage wherein the brake is worked; Brake′-wheel, the wheel to which a brake is applied. [From root of Break; cf. Dut. braak, a flax-brake.]
Brake
brāk, n. a handle, as of a pump: a lever for working a machine. [Prob. through O. Fr. brac, from L. brachium, an arm.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
brake
The handle or lever by which a common ship-pump is usually worked. It operates by means of two iron bolts, one thrust through the inner hole of it, which bolted through forms the lever axis in the iron crutch of the pump, and serves as the fulcrum for the brake, supporting it between the cheeks. The other bolt connects the extremity of the brake to the pump-spear, which draws up the spear box or piston, charged with the water in the tube; derived from brachium, an arm or lever. Also, used to check the speed of machinery by frictional force pressing on the circumference of the largest wheel acted on by leverage of the brake.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
brake
That part of the carriage of a movable battery or engine which enables it to turn.
brake
An ancient engine of war analogous to the cross-bow and balista.
Suggested Resources
Brake
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BRAKE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brake is ranked #5591 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Brake surname appeared 6,220 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Brake.
87.3% or 5,431 total occurrences were White.
6.6% or 415 total occurrences were Black.
2.4% or 155 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.8% or 117 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.2% or 75 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 27 total occurrences were Asian.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brake' in Nouns Frequency: #2896
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Anagrams for brake »
break
baker
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of brake in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of brake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of brake in a Sentence
Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis:
Our government is making every possible effort right now to have a positive deal, which will respect our program, which will respect the main principle of our program since we took power, which is to put a brake on wage and pension cuts.
A motorcyclist pulls up in front of me, and he starts speeding up, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down, at a point where he slowed down too fast and I wasn't able to brake fast enough, so I tapped him. ... He didn't wobble, he didn't fall off his bike, continued.
In practical terms I don't there's much additional room in the near term, the next several years perhaps or maybe even longer, for additional NATO expansion, i think Russia plays an important part in the strategic environment and the strategic environment will put a brake on NATO expansion.
I suspect most of you here were surprised to learn that only one brake light is required in North Carolina, even if you are from North Carolina.
The iDisc has everything it takes to replace theconventional cast iron brake disc and become the new standard in the brake discmarket. Given thecontinued particulate pollution debate in many countries and large cities aroundthe world, there is nothing standing in the way of its breakthrough.
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Translations for brake
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- فَرَمَلَة, مِكْبَح, فَرْمَلَ, َكَبَحArabic
- əyləc, tormozAzerbaijani
- то́рмазBelarusian
- спира́чка, спирамBulgarian
- freCatalan, Valencian
- brzda, brzditCzech
- bremseDanish
- Bremse, bremsenGerman
- φρένο, τροχοπέδη, πέδη, φρέναρα, φρενάρωGreek
- bremso, bremsiloEsperanto
- freno, frenarSpanish
- pidurEstonian
- galgaBasque
- ترمزPersian
- jarru, hidaste, vaivata, hidastua, äestää, levyntaivutin, murskata, jarruttaa, loukuttaa, taivutinFinnish
- bremsaFaroese
- frein, freinerFrench
- בלמים, בלםHebrew
- ब्रेकHindi
- fék, fékezHungarian
- արգելակ, արգելակելArmenian
- remIndonesian
- frenoIdo
- freno, frenareItalian
- ブレーキ, 制動機, [[ブレーキ]]を[[かける]]Japanese
- მუხრუჭიGeorgian
- тормезKazakh
- ಬ್ರೇಕ್Kannada
- 제동기, 브레이크Korean
- fregitLatin
- stabdysLithuanian
- bremze, bremzētLatvian
- ко́чницаMacedonian
- remmer, rem, remming, remmen, braken, afremmenDutch
- bremsNorwegian
- frenOccitan
- hamulec, hamowaćPolish
- freio, travão, freiarPortuguese
- fragn, frain, freinRomansh
- frânăRomanian
- то́рмоз, затормози́ть, тормози́тьRussian
- кочница, kočnica, zakočiti, kočitiSerbo-Croatian
- brzdaSlovak
- zavoraSlovene
- bromsaSwedish
- тормозTajik
- เบรกThai
- tormozTurkmen
- frenTurkish
- гальмо́, гальмува́ти, загальмува́тиUkrainian
- بریکUrdu
- tormozUzbek
- phanhVietnamese
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