Brake

Definition: Brake

Brake

Noun

1. A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.

2. Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.

3. Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.

4. An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.

Verb

1. Stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road".

2. Cause to stop by applying the brakes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Public Administration

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Brake

Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Slowness

Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.

Vegetable

Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum .

Crosswords: Brake

You made me brake my hand completely off, Tina (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci)

The car's shadow's going the wrong way, the steering wheel's on the wrong side, there's no brake pedal, the words in the mirror should be backwards, the man's watch wouldn't say twelve o'clock if he was looking at a sunset, and I have red paint on my ass. That's right -- red paint all over my ass (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Oh? Listen these things take time. Brake! Brake (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber)

I'm taking your brake handle and reverse key, Denny (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone)

You should've put the brake on (A Goofy Movie; writing credit: Jymn Magon; Chris Matheson)

A bloke's bike back brake block broke. (references; author: unknown)

Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene) (1904)

Ikidomari no Banka: Brake out (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Monro Muffler Brake Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Brake Bros. plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Brake Components Car Replacement Parts (reference)

• The World Market for Hydraulic Brake Fluids and Prepared Liquids for Hydraulic Transmissions Containing Less Than 70% by Weight of Petroleum or Bituminous Mineral Oils: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Automotive Brake Systems (reference)

• Brake Systems: Oem & Racing Brake Technology (reference)

• Designing and Building the Sheet Metal Brake (reference)

• Haynes ABS Brake Systems TechBook (Haynes Repair Manuals) (reference)

• I Brake for Bad Boys (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Air Brake Association Annual Proceedings (reference)

• Alignment Tech Talk - Incls Brake Tech Talk (reference)

• Automotive Brake Systems (reference)

• Brake & Front End (reference)

• Brake Tech Talk (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods

• THE CLUB Auto Brake Lock System ? Red (reference)

• DeWalt DW364 7-1/4" Heavy Duty Circular Saw with Electric Brake and Rear Pivot Depth of Cut Adjustment (reference)

• Milwaukee 6376-20 7-1/4" 15 Amp Circular Saw with Electric Brake and Magnesium Shoe--plus Free Football, a $19.99 Value (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Wiredrag - N. H. Heck watching the brake to stop reel Reel stopped to attach floats and buoys to mark wire location Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck Only known photograph of Nicholas Heck in the field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 54. Richter mounting with messenger and pump brake for slowing reversing action. With the earlier models used by Doflein, the mounting would flop over too quickly and jar the mercury column sufficiently to cause its separation. To slow down the reversing motion, a piston pump mechanism was installed on the mounting. This mounting was employed by Doflein off the coast of Japan in 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Beebe Windmill, Bridgehampton, New York. Floor 4; Brake wheel with iron bevel cogs, cast iron bevel wallower. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-6). Credit: Library of Congress.

[Hospital trains - designs and plans] : [Ward and personnel, and brake and stores car]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Being prepared for launching, at the New York Navy Yard, NY, circa late August 1942. Note: heavy chains used to brake the ship after she had entered the water; and men lounging at lower right, near a Navy Department safety poster, listening to a Marine Corps band. Credit: NAVY.

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William Belden ejects from his Douglas A-4E "Skyhawk" attack aircraft (Bureau # 150117) as it rolls into the carrier's port catwalk after suffering a brake failure following recovery, 2 July 1970. LtJG Belden ejected safely and was rescued by Shangri-La's helicopter. Credit: NAVY.

Plant of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Wilmerding, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor plate after flame-cutting and before machining. Every plane must be perfectly flat to ensure a tight fit in the tank. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Julia Sabo, thirty-five, mother of three children, employed as a machinist's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is splicing a reclaimed air brake hose. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Germany undertakes that German wagons shall be fitted with apparatus allowing: (1) of their inclusion in goods trains on the lines of such of the Allied and Associated Powers as are parties to the Berne Convention of May 15, 1886, as modified on May 18, 1907, without hampering the action of the continuous brake which may be adopted in such countries within ten years of the coming into force of the present Treaty, and (2) Of the acceptance of wagons of such countries in all goods trains on the German lines. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And even here brake off and came away

Brake rods, exhausts, piled like snakes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Tumor suppressor genes are like the brake pedal of an automobile. (references)

The loss of a tumor suppressor gene function is like having a brake pedal that does not function properly, thereby allowing the cell to grow and divide continually. (references)

Business

Non-friction brake system components dominate the aftermarket and are expected to maintain this position. (references)

The overall tax burden, and the specific burden on motor vehicles, fuel and road use, act as a significant brake on vehicle demand. (references)

Thus, the market offers the best potential for General Automotive Service Equipment & Tool, Tire (Wheel) & Brake Service Equipment, and Body and Paint Repair Service Equipment. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Corruption acts a severe brake on investment. (references)

Turkey

Tires, brake linings, gearboxes, and clutches are the major imported items in the parts industry. (references)

Sweden

Areas where US suppliers are doing well are within brake systems, steering systems, body parts and gearboxes/transmissions. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

The government appears to share the view of many Irish economists that the rise in inflation is ultimately a natural and manageable brake on an economy that was showing signs of overheating. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "brake": AFM brake test ♦ Air brake ♦ air flow method brake test ♦ american rock brake ♦ apply the brake ♦ back brake ♦ band brake ♦ boosted brake ♦ brake action ♦ brake band ♦ Brake bar ♦ Brake beam ♦ brake block ♦ brake blocks ♦ brake cable ♦ brake control system ♦ brake cylinder ♦ brake disc ♦ brake disk ♦ brake drum ♦ brake failure ♦ brake fluid ♦ brake gear ♦ Brake horse power ♦ brake horsepower ♦ brake hydraulic system ♦ brake lever ♦ brake light ♦ brake lining ♦ brake man ♦ brake mean effective pressure ♦ brake mechanism ♦ brake pad ♦ brake pads ♦ brake parachute ♦ brake pedal ♦ brake pipe initiated application ♦ Brake rubber ♦ brake shoe ♦ brake signal ♦ brake suddenly ♦ brake system ♦ brake torque ♦ brake wheel ♦ caliper brake ♦ Cane brake ♦ canker brake ♦ checking brake ♦ Chinese ladder brake fern ♦ cliff brake ♦ coaster brake ♦ Continuous brake ♦ cornice brake ♦ differential brake ♦ disc brake ♦ disc brake pad ♦ disk brake ♦ dive brake ♦ diving brake ♦ drum brake ♦ electric brake ♦ emergency brake ♦ Flax brake ♦ foot brake ♦ Friction brake ♦ front brake ♦ grip brake ♦ hand brake ♦ hydraulic brake ♦ hydraulic brake cylinder ♦ manual brake ♦ muzzle brake ♦ parking brake ♦ parking brake required ♦ pasture brake ♦ pedal brake ♦ pneumatic brake ♦ pneumatically operated brake ♦ power brake ♦ pump brake ♦ purple rock brake ♦ put a brake on ♦ put on the brake ♦ railway brake ♦ rear brake lamp ♦ release a brake ♦ release the brake ♦ rock brake ♦ safety brake ♦ service brake ♦ servo brake ♦ shoe brake ♦ shooting brake ♦ slipper brake ♦ solenoid brake ♦ spider brake ♦ vacuum brake ♦ wheel brake. Additional references.

Beginning with "brake": brake-disc, brake-drum, brake-fluid, brake-force, brake-gear, brake-job, brake-light, brake-lining, brake-pad, Brake-pedal-down, brake-squealing, brake-van, brake-van, brake-vans, brake-work.

Ending with "brake": cane-brake, disc-brake, front-brake, hand-brake, lever-brake, oil-brake, panic-brake, shooting-brake, third-brake.

Containing "brake": air-brake jack house, ex-brake-end.

Afrikaans

rem. (various references)

Albanian

frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop), frena (brakes). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصل ألياف الكتان, ‏فرملة (braking, jam), ‏فرمل, ‏فرامل (brakes), ‏مكبح (bridle, inhibitory, restrained), ‏الكابح (controller, inhibitor), ‏البطارس, ‏البريكة, ‏إنكبح, ‏أجمة (brush, brushwood, bush, clump, thicket), ‏آلة لتسييح المعادن. (various references)

Basque

frenu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам спирачка, спирачка (counter, deterrent, drag, restraint, stopper), спирачки, спирам (arrest, bit, block, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), гъсталак (boskage, chaparral, spinney, thicket, undergrowth), мъналка (scutch, scutcher, swingle), папрат (fern). (various references)

Catalan

fre. (various references)

Chinese 

軔 , 闸 (brakes). (various references)

Czech

brzdit (apply the brakes, backpedal, hamper, hinder, impede), brzda (disincentive). (various references)

Danish

bremse (gadfly, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references)

Dutch

remmen (inhibit), rem (rem, roentgen equivalent man), afremmen (blending, deceleration, slow down). (various references)

Esperanto

bremso, bremsi. (various references)

Farsi 

مانع (Balk, Bar, Barricade, Crimp, Dike, Drawback, Embargo, Encumbrance, Handicap, Hedge, Hinder, Hindrance, Hitch, Hurdle, Impediment, Let, Lock, Obstacle, Preventive, Repellent, Setback, Shackle, Snag, Stay), ترمزکردن (Skid), ترمز (Clog), عایق (Damper, Impediment, Insulator, Pawl), درختستان (Glade, Grove, Woodland), بیشه (Brushwood, Forest, Glade, Grove, Wood). (various references)

Finnish

jarru (drag). (various references)

French

frein, freiner. (various references)

Frisian

remme. (various references)

German

bremse (brakes, gadfly, horsefly, horse-fly, retardant). (various references)

Greek 

φρένο (brake pedal). (various references)

Hawaiian

frenoj, frena. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעצור (balk, baulk, block, check, curb, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, restraint, stopper, trammel), לבלום (hold back, restrain, stop), בלם (barrier, brake gear, stopper). (various references)

Hungarian

fék (break, check, curb, stopper). (various references)

Indonesian

rem, mengerem, mengabar (hinder, impede, remove), abar. (various references)

Italian

freno (bit, bridle, check, curb, damper, handbrake, rein, restraint), frenare (check, contain, control, curb, restrain, stem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

歯止め , 制動機 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいどうき (bronze ware), はどめ. (various references)

Korean 

브레이크 (brakes). (various references)

Manx

mooinney (cover, covert, shrubbery), glackan, cur glackan er, chionnaghey glackanyn. (various references)

Norwegian

bremsebelegg (brake lining). (various references)

Occitan

fren. (various references)

Papiamen

brek, rèm. (various references)

Pig Latin

akebray.(various references)

Portuguese

travão, freio (bit, bridle, curb, restraint, restraints, shoe, snaffle), travar (bar, catching, lock), frear (bridle, clog, restrain). (various references)

Romanian

boroanã (drill, Harrow), stufãriş (thicket), piedicã (balk, bar, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), meliţã (comb, scutcher, swingle), grãpa (Harrow), frîna, frãmânta (agitate, beat, bustle, churn, debate, fret, fuss, knead, puddle, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torment, torture, worry), frânã (check, chock, drag, scotch, spoke), dispozitiv de frânare, desiş (brush, brushwood, shrubbery, thicket), împiedica (arrest, back, balk, baulk, block, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, deter, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hitch, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, restrain, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, trammel, withhold). (various references)

Russian 

тормозить тормоз, тормозить (damp, hamper, lock, skid, slow down), тормоз (catch, drag), затормозить (apply the brakes, put on the brakes), папоротник (fern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukočiti (lock), trti lan, prikočiti, mlatilo za lan, kočnica (drag, lock, lock on), kočiti (inhibit), šiprag (marshland, marshy scrub, spinney, thicket). (various references)

Spanish

freno (bridle, check, control, curb, deterrence, deterrent, impediment, restraint), frenar (back away, catch). (various references)

Swahili

breki. (various references)

Swedish

broms (braking, check, cleg, gadfly, horsefly, horse-fly), bromsa (check, skid). (various references)

Turkish

fren (break, curb). (various references)

Ukrainian

рукоятка (grasp, grip, gripe, hilt, lever, shaft, stale), хаща (jungle, thick, thicket, thick-set), тіпати (beat, swingle), тіпалка (beater, scutch), гальмувати (back off, bar, chock, put back, skid), гальмо (catch), м'яти (champ, crumple, crush, rumple, wrinkle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái hãm (cataract, retainer). (various references)

Welsh

bre+c, rhoi'r bre+c, prysglwyn, dryslwyn. (various references)

braeke. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "brake": brakeage, brakeages, braked, brakeless, brakeman, brakemen, brakes. (additional references)

Words ending with "brake": aerobrake, canebrake, unbrake. (additional references)

Words containing "brake": aerobraked, aerobrakes, canebrakes, unbraked, unbrakes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Brake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arake, baka, bakka, Bakke, barak, baraka, Barakah, Barakat, barce, barek, barje, Barka, barkay, Barke, Barkev, Barko, Barkov, barue, berakah, biace, biake, Boake, Boraceva, Borak, brac, bracea, Bracke, braek, brahe, braik, brak, braka, braken, braker, braket, brale, Brame, brane, branee, Branka, branken, brare, Braye, brcke, brece, breek, brek, breken, breker, brekken, Brekker, brekky, breue, brika, Brikom, brinke, brk, Brkne, Broka, Brokaj, Burak, buraku, mrake, wrake. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: baker, break, kebar.

-1 letter: bake, bare, bark, beak, bear, brae, kbar, kerb, rake.

-2 letters: arb, are, ark, bar, bra, ear, era, kab, kae, kea, reb.

-3 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, ka, re.

+1 letter: backer, bakers, bakery, balker, banker, barked, barker, beaker, berake, braked, brakes, breaks, debark, embark, kebars.

+2 letters: arabesk, backers, balkers, balkier, bankers, barkeep, barkers, barkier, beakers, beakier, beraked, berakes, blacker, blanker, bleaker, bracken, bracket, brakier, breaker, breakup, brokage, debarks, embarks, hauberk, prebake, unbrake.

+3 letters: arabesks, backfire, backrest, bakeries, bankerly, bareback, baresark, barkeeps, barkiest, barkless, barnlike, basketry, baulkier, beadwork, bearlike, bearskin, bedarken, bedmaker, beraking, bidarkee, brackens, brackets, brakeage, brakeman, brakemen, brakiest, breakage, breakers, breaking, breakout, breakups, brockage, brokages, daybreak, debarked, embarked, fireback, grosbeak, hauberks, imbarked, keyboard, ninebark, outbreak, overbake, prebaked, prebakes, reembark, rockabye, unbraked, unbrakes, workable, yearbook.