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Definition of Brake
1. Verb. Stop travelling by applying a brake. "These cars won't brake "; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
2. Noun. A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
Generic synonyms: Constraint, Restraint
Group relationships: Wheeled Vehicle
3. Verb. Cause to stop by applying the brakes. "Brake the car before you go into a curve"
4. Noun. Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
5. Noun. Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Pteridium, Pteridium
Derivative terms: Braky
6. Noun. An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.
7. Noun. Anything that slows or hinders a process. "New legislation will put the brakes on spending"
Definition of Brake
1. n. 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.
2. n. An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
Definition of Brake
1. Noun. A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural. ¹
2. Noun. Something that slows or stops an action ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked ¹
4. Noun. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.) ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A specific torture instrument ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s). ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead ¹
9. Verb. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow ¹
10. Noun. A fern type, bracken ¹
11. Noun. A canebreak ¹
12. Noun. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. ¹
13. Noun. A four-wheeled carriage type ¹
14. Verb. (archaic) (past of break) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brake
1. to slow down or stop [v BRAKED, BRAKING, BRAKES]
Medical Definition of Brake
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brake
Literary usage of Brake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"To obviate this condition, the freight empty and load brake was devised, ...
Passenger brake Equipment.—About the year 1900, a speed of 60 miles per hour ..."
2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"The brake shoe is a band that may either be drawn around the outside of the ...
The external type of brake is usually of the double acting band brake type ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the event of a train being parted and the brake-pipe severed, the escape of
air reduces the pressure in the pipe, ana the brakes are instantly ..."