brake

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Related terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.4.1.2 Synonyms 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.6 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb form

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: brāk, IPA: /bɹeɪk/, SAMPA: /breIk/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -eɪk

• Homophones: break

[edit] Etymology 1

Recorded since c. 1440, from Old Dutch braeke (“‘flax brake’”), from breken (“‘to break’”) (=modern Dutch), applied to many crushing implements, and the ring through the nose of a draught ox. The word was influenced in sense by Old French brac, a form of bras "an arm, lever or handle", used in English from 1380 and applied to "a bridle or curb" from 1430. One or both took up the main modern meaning of "stopping device for a wheel," first attested 1772.

[edit] Noun

brake (plural brakes)

1. A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural.
2. Something that slows or stops an action
3. (nautical) The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked
4. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
5. (obsolete) A specific torture instrument

[edit] Related terms

• air brake
• antilock brake
• brake band
• brake disc
• brake drum
• brake fluid
• brake harrow
• brake horsepower
• brake lining
• brakeman, brakesman
• brake drum
• brake pad
• brake van
• brake wheel
• brakey
• caliper brake
• disc brake
• emergency brake
• foot brake
• hand brake
• parking brake
• press brake

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to brake (third-person singular simple present brakes, present participle braking, simple past and past participle braked)

1. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
2. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
3. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead

   The farmer's son brake the flax while mother brakes the bread dough

4. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

[edit] Derived terms

• brakeage

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English, from braken (“‘bracken’”).

[edit] Noun

brake (plural brakes)

1. A fern type, bracken
2. A canebreak
3. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
   • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, Fidelity:

     A barking sound the Shepherd hears,

     A cry as of a Dog or Fox;

     He halts, and searches with his eyes

     Among the scatter'd rocks:

     And now at distance can discern

     A stirring in a brake of fern;

     From which immediately leaps out

     A Dog, and yelping runs about.

[edit] Etymology 3

From break.

[edit] Noun

brake (plural brakes)

1. A four-wheeled carriage type

[edit] Translations

• Dutch: brik nl(nl)

[edit] Synonyms

• break

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Verb

brake

1. (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of break.
   • Exodus 32:3, KJV:

     And all the people brake off the golden earrings […]

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: abekr
• baker, Baker
• break

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Verb form

brake

1. subjunctive present singular form of braken