| 单词 | brake |
| 释义 | Word Frequency brake 1(breɪk) 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: break7. an obsolete word for rack1 (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 Derived forms brakeless (ˈbrakeless) adjective Word origin C18: from Middle Dutch braeke; related to breken to breakWord Frequency brake 2(breɪk) noun an area of dense undergrowth, shrubs, brushwood, etc; thicket Word origin Old English bracu; related to Middle Low German brake, Old French bracon branchWord Frequency brake 3(breɪk) noun another name for bracken (sense 1), See also rock brake Word Frequency brake 4(breɪk) verb archaic, mainly biblical a past tense of break |
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