brake
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
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.
You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.
- 2.
(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- 3.
(chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
Đồng nghĩa: swipe
- 4.
A baker’s kneading trough.
- 5.
A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
- 6.
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- 7.
Certain ferns, including
- 8.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- 9.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- 10.
(agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- 11.
(textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
Đồng nghĩa: cataract
- 12.
(obsolete)A cage.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To operate a brake or brakes.
- 2.
(intransitive)To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
- 3.
(transitive)To bruise and crush; to knead.
The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
- 4.
(transitive)To pulverise with a harrow.
- 5.
(archaic, form of, past)simple past of break
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thumb|right|Disc brake on a motorcycle. Origin; possibly from Middle Dutch - or brake (nose ring, curb, flax brake), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (to break).