Word: Brake
How to pronounce: breɪk
Noun
Definitions:
1. A device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels.
Example sentences: "He slammed on his brakes"
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. Make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake.
Example sentences: "Drivers who brake abruptly"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An open, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.
Example sentences: "The farmer passed handfuls of flax through a tool called a flax brake to break up the hard inner core."
Noun
Definitions:
1. A thicket.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments.
Example sentences: "Their repeated experiments with the brake fern showed that it is capable of reducing initial arsenic concentration of 200 micrograms per litre by a hundredfold within 24 hours."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Archaic past of break
Synonyms:
apply the brake
slow down
decelerate
retard
deceleration
bracken
Derivations:
braking
braked
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Brake in Other Languages...
Spanish: Freno
German: Bremsen
French: Frein
Italian: Freno
Turkish: Fren
