What does brake mean?
Definitions for brake
breɪkbrake
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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"
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
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Freebase
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.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brake' in Nouns Frequency: #2896
Anagrams for brake »
Baker
Break
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
I'm not going to speculate on what that tapping of the brake could mean. It could mean a lot of different things.
The Secretary-General has launched a reform process that is limping, but it's limping precisely because of the micromanagement by member states that has reached gigantic proportions and is acting as a massive brake on any kind of forward imaginative and innovative movement of the organization.
He was passed out with his foot on the brake in a moving lane of traffic.
Kuroda's comment in parliament was very effective in putting a brake on yen falls. It also made me believe the BOJ won't ease again for the rest of this year.
The BOJ has to keep printing, so the value of the yen should fall. And when that happens, inflation will spike. But the BOJ cannot stop inflation. It no longer has a brake.
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- فَرَمَلَة, مِكْبَح, فَرْمَلَ, َكَبَحArabic
- əyləc, tormozAzerbaijani
- то́рмазBelarusian
- спирам, спира́чкаBulgarian
- freCatalan, Valencian
- brzdit, brzdaCzech
- bremseDanish
- Bremse, bremsenGerman
- πέδη, φρενάρω, τροχοπέδη, φρένο, φρέναραGreek
- bremso, bremsiloEsperanto
- frenar, frenoSpanish
- pidurEstonian
- galgaBasque
- ترمزPersian
- vaivata, hidastua, äestää, jarruttaa, levyntaivutin, murskata, loukuttaa, jarru, hidaste, taivutinFinnish
- bremsaFaroese
- frein, freinerFrench
- בלם, בלמיםHebrew
- ब्रेकHindi
- fékez, fékHungarian
- արգելակ, արգելակելArmenian
- remIndonesian
- frenoIdo
- frenare, frenoItalian
- 制動機, [[ブレーキ]]を[[かける]], ブレーキJapanese
- მუხრუჭიGeorgian
- тормезKazakh
- 제동기, 브레이크Korean
- fregitLatin
- stabdysLithuanian
- bremzēt, bremzeLatvian
- ко́чницаMacedonian
- braken, remming, rem, remmer, afremmen, remmenDutch
- bremsNorwegian
- frenOccitan
- hamować, hamulecPolish
- travão, freio, freiarPortuguese
- fragn, frein, frainRomansh
- frânăRomanian
- то́рмоз, тормози́ть, затормози́тьRussian
- кочница, kočiti, kočnica, zakočitiSerbo-Croatian
- brzdaSlovak
- zavoraSlovene
- bromsaSwedish
- тормозTajik
- เบรกThai
- tormozTurkmen
- frenTurkish
- гальмува́ти, загальмува́ти, гальмо́Ukrainian
- بریکUrdu
- tormozUzbek
- phanhVietnamese
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