单词 | braking |
释义 | brakingn. The action of applying a brake (to a wheel); also attributive, as braking distance (see quot. 1950). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > braking trigging1668 brakeage1864 braking1904 1904 Daily Chron. 15 June 6/7 A clever braking arrangement secures a representation of the difficulites encountered in running on the metals. 1905 Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 3/7 Frictional braking is jarring, uncertain, difficult of gradual application, and most destructive to the parts concerned. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 5/1 Fixed to these chains is a braking band. 1950 U.S. Bur. Publ. Roads Highway Capacity Manual 18/1 Braking distance, the total distance traversed by a vehicle while it is being brought to rest, measured from the position of the vehicle at the instant the brake shoe touches the brake drum. 1964 Times 11 Feb. 11/7 Drivers moving at speeds above their vision-and-braking distances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmasˈbraking ˈbraking n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating brakinga1398 ribbinga1398 swingling?a1500 swingling machine?a1500 tewtawing1707 scutching1733 flax-scutching1846 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clx. 1055 With many brakynges [1495 de Worde moche brakyng], hechelynges, and rybbynges, herden is departed fro þe substaunce of flex. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xl. 252 Instead of braking..there they altogether pill it. ˈbraking ˈbraking n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > lifting or hoisting equipment windingc1440 slinging1685 windlassing1834 braking1857 level luffing1922 1857 S. Smiles Life G. Stephenson iii. 17 Paying some attention to the art of brakeing. ˈbraking ˈbraking n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting spewinga1000 vominga1382 brakinga1398 castinga1398 outcastinga1398 vomitc1405 perbreakinga1425 parbreaking1440 vomishmenta1450 upcastingc1450 upbreaking1493 vomiting1495 abortment1577 heaving1601 puke1612 puking1629 egestion1633 evomition1653 vomition1656 yarking1874 emesis1875 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cvi. 997 [Mint] abateþ wiþ vynegre brakynge and castynge þat comeþ of feblenesse of þe vertu retentyf. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 47 Brakynge or parbrakynge, vomitus. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 56 (Jam.) That gut and ga' she keest with braking strange. < n.1904 as lemmas |
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