Brake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

   “She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.”

2. isim The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

   “Give the car a quick brake.”

3. isim 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.
4. isim Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
5. isim An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
6. isim The winch of a crossbow.
7. isim The handle of a pump.
8. isim A baker’s kneading trough.

   “You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake.”

9. isim A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
10. isim An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

    “He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.”

11. isim A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
12. isim A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.

    “shooting-brake”

13. isim That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
14. fiil To operate a brake or brakes.

    “Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.”

15. fiil To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
16. isim Any fern in the genus Pteris.
17. isim Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
18. isim A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

    “Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.”

19. isim A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
20. isim A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
21. isim A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
22. fiil To bruise and crush; to knead.

    “The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough”

23. fiil To pulverise with a harrow.
24. isim A cage.
25. isim A type of torture instrument.

    “Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.”

26. fiil simple past of break

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

27. özel isim A surname.