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brake English

Meaning brake meaning

What does brake mean?
Definitions in simple English

brake Noun

— The part of an object that makes it slow down. The crash was caused by the car's brakes failing.

brake Verb

— To make an object slow down using brakes. Jimmy braked to avoid hitting the cat.

brake

— noun a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle — noun anything that slows or hinders a process she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage new legislation will put the brakes on spending — noun any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants — noun an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant — verb cause to stop by applying the brakes brake the car before you go into a curve — verb stop travelling by applying a brake We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road — noun (= bracken) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Synonyms brake synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as brake?

brake English » English

stop hold back slow down drag decelerate thicket stem restrain retard retain pasture brake fern check bracken suppress stifle squelch skid restriction restraint repress oppress obstacle inhibit detain curb control bridle braking brakes Pteridium aquilinum withhold wagon brake tie up thumber switch stricture stopper stonewall stagnate spinney speed bump slipper set back scrub roadblock reverse retainer restraining resistor

Topics brake topics

What do people use brake to talk about?
Universe, creation World Land

Forest, grassland, desert
Universe, creation

Plant
Universe, creation Plant

Grass, herb, vine
Physical actions Move Travel

Travel by land
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Vehicle
Physical actions Move Not moving

Stop moving
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something

Conjugation brake conjugation

How do you conjugate brake?

brake · verb

Examples brake examples

How do I use brake in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I have noticed that the bus drivers don't know how to brake.
Press the brake pedal to turn on your brake lights.
The function of the brake is to stop the car.
The brake isn't working well.
The brake didn't work.
The brake stopped working.
He pressed the brake pedal.
He put his foot on the brake suddenly.
Could you stand behind my car for a minute and tell me if my brake lights are working?
One of your brake lights is burned out.
I have pushed on the brake.
Tom pressed the brake pedal.
Don't brake suddenly.
Tom stomped on the brake pedal and screeched to a halt.
I cannot brake! The brakes are broken!
Tom forgot to release the brake.
The brake's not working.

Movie subtitles

Brake on.
Full brake-power - we're plummeting -!
A note on the hydraulic brake of the 120 mm gun.
The brake!
He said something about the brake.
Hand brake? - Check. Check.
I'll have to pull on your brake.
The brake snapped on me.
You mean you come down through all that shale with no brake?
There's only a weak hand brake on this engine.
And if you use the brake in the van, you'll throw the weight of the whole train on that coupling.
Brake like this.
And even here brake off and came away.
Sorry, the hand brake.
Brake!
You break the brake.
Hand brake? - Check.
Keep your hands off that brake.
Take your hand off the throttle and reach for the brake!
Perhaps if you release the hand-brake.
Pull the brake!
Couldn't you jump to the brake yourself?
You should put the hand brake on.
I stepped on the brake. - Leave it. Never mind.
That's the emergency brake.
Must be a brake somewhere.
Hand brake?
Let go of the brake and I'll shove.
Put the brake on anyway.
Take your brake off, put it in low, go, boy!
They're electric brakes actuated by a magnet which is connected to the brake pad.
The armature is in contact with the brake drum and revolves with the wheel.
Trailer brake!
Oh, trailer brake!
Pull the emergency brake.

News and current affairs

If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the equivalent of having just crashed into a tree.
Raising the retirement age to 67, abolishing wage indexation, and compelling countries to enshrine a debt brake in their national constitutions are reasonable measures to enhance competitiveness and restore confidence in the euro.
That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.
Moreover, the Federal Reserve has viewed trade deficits as a helpful brake on inflation, while politicians now view them as a way to buy off consumers afflicted by wage stagnation.
The motor has turned into a brake.
If trade deals do boost US exports more than imports, the Fed will probably have to put a brake on the economy that much sooner.
But now Europe's anchor has become a brake, hindering forward movement.
The subsequent state-directed WMP regulation put a brake on credit creation and sent Chinese stock markets plunging.
The most important change that may keep the problem manageable is that China's monetary authorities have been putting the brake on the growth of these debts since late last year.
Moreover, the very weak performance of state-owned enterprises, which continue to play a large role in heavy industry and in some service sectors, represents a powerful brake on growth.
And the big American banks now want to use the slow pace of change in Europe as a brake on US policy (for example, through the ongoing free-trade negotiations between the European Union and the US).
Fiscal consolidation and the abrupt closure and restructuring of inefficient banks and state enterprises would, after all, constitute a powerful brake on short-term growth, threatening social peace and political stability.
Moreover, the brake that the functional constituencies can put on legislation should be scrapped, leaving decisions to a simple majority.

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