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Verb
/brāk/,
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braked, past participle; brakes, 3rd person singular present; braking, present participle; braked, past tense;
  1. Make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake
    • - drivers who brake abruptly
    • - an anti-lock braking system
  1. (brake) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  2. (brake) stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
  3. (brake) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  4. (brake) cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
  5. (brake) bracken: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  6. (brake) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  7. A brake is a device which inhibits motion. Its opposite component is a clutch. The rest of this article is dedicated to various types of vehicular brakes.
  8. (Brake (carriage)) A brake, also spelled break, was a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries. It was a large or small, open-topped, straight-bodied pleasure vehicle with four wheels, designed for country use. ...
  9. (Brake (charity)) Brake is a British national road safety charity. It is based in Huddersfield.
  10. (Brake (fern)) Pteris (brake) is a genus of about 280 species of ferns, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
  11. (Brake (railway)) Brakes are used on the cars of railway trains to enable deceleration or to keep them standing when parked. ...
  12. (Brake (sheet metal bending)) A brake is a metalworking machine that allows the bending of sheet metal. A cornice brake only allows for simple bends and creases, while a box-and-pan brake also allows one to form box and pan shapes. It is also known as a bending machine or bending brake.
  13. (brake) A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural; Something that slows or stops an action; The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked; A specific torture instrument; To operate (a) brake(s); To ...
  14. (Brake) A device, other than a motor, used for retarding or stopping motion by friction or power means.
  15. (Brake) A piece of equipment used for bending sheet; also called a bar folder. If operated manually, it is called a hand brake; if power driven, it is called a press brake.
  16. (Brake) The handle of the pump, by which it is worked.
  17. (brake) A device for bending sheet metal to a desired angle.
  18. (BRAKE) An integral part of an elevator or dumbwaiter driving machine which operates to stop the unit and/or to hold the weight of the load at a fixed position.
  19. (BRAKE) Device for stopping a wind turbine. This can be an electric brake that shorts the output of the turbine (dynamic braking), or a mechanical brake that physically stops the rotation, as with a brake drum and shoe.
  20. (BRAKE) bracken. From a 1750s court case about properties in Spreyton and Drewsteignton: “Hath good husbandry been used thereon or hath it been rackt and overrun with brake and furze?”.
  21. (BRAKE) horse drawn four-wheeled open vehicle with seats running lengthwise
  22. (Brake) (1) A device for slowing, stopping, and holding an object. (2) A machine used to bend sheet metal.
  23. (Brake) A device for slowing down conveyor or components for controlling overspeed du to the action of gravity.
  24. (Brake) A device, such as the disc or drum brake, for retarding motion. This is usually created by means of friction caused by a clamping force from a stationary caliper or shoe, against a rotating rotor or drum.
  25. (Brake) A metal bending device used to create rectangular and box-like trophy columns from sheet metal.