brake meaning
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[bɹeɪk] [-eɪk] 
US WBrake
- A brake is a mechanical device which inhibits motion, slowing or stopping a moving object or preventing its motion.
- Most commonly brakes use friction between two surfaces pressed together to convert the kinetic energy of the moving object into heat, though other methods of energy conversion may be employed.
- Brakes are generally applied to rotating axles or wheels, but may also take other forms such as the surface of a moving fluid (flaps deployed into water or air).
- 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,
- NounPLbrakes
- A fern; bracken.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- 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.
- A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
- He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
- It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.).
- A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker's kneading trough.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- (obsolete) A cage.
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A fern; bracken.
- VerbSGbrakesPRbrakingPT, PPbraked
- (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead.
- The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
- (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow.
- (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
- (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
- (archaic) simple past tense of break.
- (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- 1611, Bible (KJV): Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
- And with that (as he sayde) the deuill brake the white wande, and immediatly vanished foorth of his sight.
- This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a dime.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of brake in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "brake" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.