Definition of brake in English

WordNet

Noun Plural: brakes
brake - a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
		constraint, restraint the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
		wheeled vehicle a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC"
		brake system, brakes a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
		coaster brake a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals
		emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake, emergency a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage
brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
		coppice, copse, thicket, brushwood, brush the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire of brushwood"
brake - any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
		fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
brake - 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"
brake - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
		bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum
		fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
		genus pteridium, pteridium a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae
Verb brakes, braking, braked
brake - cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
		stop cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
		driving the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
		skid move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
brake - stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
		brake cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
		halt, stop cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
		driving the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

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Wiktionary

brake (Noun)
A fern; bracken.
brake (Noun)
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
brake (Noun)
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
brake (Noun)
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. See wikipedia:Brake.
brake (Noun)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
brake (Noun)
The handle of a pump.
brake (Noun)
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
brake (Noun)
Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
brake (Noun)
The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle.
brake (Noun)
A baker's kneading trough.
brake (Noun)
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
brake (Noun)
An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
brake (Noun)
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
brake (Noun)
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
brake (Noun)
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 .
brake (Noun)
A cart or carriage without a body, used in break breaking in horses.
brake (Verb)
To bruise and crush; to knead.
brake (Verb)
To pulverise with a harrow.
brake (Verb)
To operate a brakes.
brake (Verb)
To be stopped or slowed as if by braking.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

brake
imp. of Break.
brake (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.
brake (n.)
A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
brake (v. t.)
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
brake (v. t.)
An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
brake (v. t.)
A baker's kneading though.
brake (v. t.)
A sharp bit or snaffle.
brake (v. t.)
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
brake (v. t.)
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
brake (v. t.)
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
brake (v. t.)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
brake (v. t.)
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.
brake (v. t.)
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.
brake (v. t.)
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
brake (v. t.)
An ancient instrument of torture.
brake
of Break

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

brake
A mechanical device used to slow a vehicle.
brake
Decelerate using a mechanical device.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 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.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

brake
brimbale, the handle, or lever, by which a common ship-pump is usually managed. It operates by means of two iron bolts thrust through the inner end of it; one of which resting across two cheeks or ears, in the upper-end of the pump, serves as a 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 box or piston, charged with the water in the tube. See the article PUMP.

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

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 DictionaryMilitary 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.