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Brakes

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Noun

1. brake system, brakes

a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle

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Brakes

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noun
1. 
a. (often plural)
a device for slowing or stopping a vehicle, wheel, shaft, etc, or for keeping it stationary, esp by means of friction
See also drum brake, disc brake, hydraulic brake, air brake, handbrake
b. 
(as modifier)
the brake pedal
2. 
a machine or tool for crushing or breaking flax or hemp to separate the fibres
3. Also called: brake harrow
a heavy harrow for breaking up clods
4.  short for brake van
5.  short for shooting brake
6. 
an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
. Also spelt: break
7.  an obsolete word for rack (sense 4)
verb
8. 
to slow down or cause to slow down, by or as if by using a brake
9. (transitive)
to crush or break up using a brake
noun
an area of dense undergrowth, shrubs, brushwood, etc; thicket
noun
another name for bracken (sense 1), See also rock brake
verb
archaic, mainly biblical a past tense of break

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Brakes

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noun
1. 
a toothed implement for beating or crushing flax or hemp so that the fiber can be separated
2. 
a heavy harrow for breaking up clods of earth
3. 
a handle or lever on a machine
a pump brake
4. 
a machine for turning or bending the edges of sheet metal
5. 
a. 
any device for slowing or stopping the motion of a vehicle or machine, as by causing a block, shoe, or band to press against a moving part
b. 
anything that slows down or stops motion or progress
6.  Obsolete
the rack, former instrument of torture
verb transitiveWord forms: braked or ˈbraking
7. 
to break up (flax, clods of earth, etc.) into smaller pieces
8. 
to slow down or stop with or as with a brake
verb intransitive
9.  US
to operate a brake or brakes
10. 
to be slowed down or stopped by a brake
noun
any of a genus (Pteris) of coarse tropical ferns (family Polypodiaceae) used commonly as a houseplant
see also bracken
noun
a clump or area of brushwood, briers, etc.; thicket
verb transitive, verb intransitive
archaic pt. of
break

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Brakes

see synonyms of brakes
n.
1. A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
2. Something that slows or stops action.
v. braked, brak·ing, brakes
v.tr.
To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
v.intr.
1. To operate or apply a brake.
2. To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.
n.
1. A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.
2. A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.
3. An apparatus for kneading large amounts of dough.
4. A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.
tr.v. braked, brak·ing, brakes
1. To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.
2. To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.
n.
A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.
n.
1. Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
2. Any of certain other ferns, such as bracken.
n.
An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.
n. also break
A high horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.
v.
Archaic
A past tense of break.

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