brake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 brāk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cage. obsolete
  2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
  3. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
    — Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
  4. Certain ferns, including; Any fern in the genus Pteris. countable,uncountable
  5. 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.
  6. 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.; The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
    — Give the car a quick brake.
  7. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
  8. Certain ferns, including; Bracken (Pteridium spp.). countable,uncountable
  9. A type of torture instrument. historical
    — 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.
  10. 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.; 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.
  11. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
  12. 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.; Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc. figuratively
  13. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
  14. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.; The winch of a crossbow. obsolete
  15. The handle of a pump.
  16. A baker’s kneading trough.
    — You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake.
  17. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.; A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
  18. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.; 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.
  19. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.; A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
  20. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.; A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.
    — shooting-brake
  21. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of break archaic,form-of,past
    — And all the people brake off the golden earrings […]
  2. To bruise and crush; to knead. transitive
    — The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
  3. To operate a brake or brakes. intransitive
    — 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.
  4. To pulverise with a harrow. transitive
  5. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking. intransitive

词形变化

brakes plural break alternative,rare brakes present,singular,third-person braking participle,present braked participle,past braked past break alternative,rare brakes plural brakes plural brakes plural brakes present,singular,third-person braking participle,present braked participle,past braked past brakes plural

词汇关系

反义词
floor it put the pedal to the metal redline accelerate
衍生词
ABS brake air brake airbrake air-braked antilock brake autobrake back pedal brake band brake brake assembly brake band brake bias brake block brake check brake cylinder brake disc brake drum brake dust brake fade brake fluid brakeforce brakeful brakegear brake gear brake harrow brake horsepower brakeless brake light brake line brake lining brakeload brakemaker brakeman brakesman brake mean effective pressure brake noodle brake pad brakepad brake pedal brake pipe brakepipe brake press brake shoe brakeshoe brake tender brake test brake van brake wheel brakewoman brakey bread brake brifter caliper brake cane brake clasp brake coaster brake deadman's brake dead man's brake disc brake drum brake dynamic brake e-brake emergency brake foot brake friction brake hand brake handbrake independent brake jake brake muzzle brake parabrake parking brake press brake Prony brake put the brakes on rail brake regenerative brake ribbon brake rim brake sand brake service brake shooting brake shooting-brake sledge brake spoon brake strap brake track brake tread brake unbraked vacuum brake V brake water brake Westinghouse brake wheelbrake aerobrake braker lithobrake overbrake unbrake Bahama brake Buchanan's brake cliffbrake coastal brake Cretan brake Fries's brake giant brake jungle brake ladder brake longleaf brake long-tipped brake netted brake rockbrake semi-pinnated brake shaking brake spider brake toothed brake Wallich's brake brakeage
相关词
hackle ripple scutch swingle

词源

词源 1
Origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German brake (“nose ring, curb, flax brake”), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”).
词源 2
Apparently a shortened form of bracken. (Compare chick, chicken.)
词源 3
From Old English *bracu, attested in a plural compound form fearnbraca (“thickets of fern”), probably from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”) and influenced by sense 2 (“fern”). Compare Middle Low German brake (“stump, branch”).
词源 4
Late Middle English, from Middle Low German brake, Dutch braak, Old Dutch braeke; possibly related to sense 1.
词源 5
Uncertain.
词源 6
Inflected forms.
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