英语词汇“brake”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

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单词

brake

释义

brake¹/brayk/ noun

(also in pl) a device for slowing down or stopping a vehicle, usu by friction against the wheels

something that slows down or stops movement or activity

put the brake on

to take steps to slow the progress of something thought to be developing too precipitately

brakeless adj

[Middle English, bridle, curb; earlier history unknown]

brake²verb intrans

to operate, manage, or apply a brake, esp on a vehicle

said of a vehicle: to become slowed by a brake

verb trans

to slow or stop (a vehicle) using a brake

brake³noun literary

a thicket

This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring-house — Shakespeare

an area of overgrown rough or marshy land

braky /ʹbrayki/ adj

[Old English bracu]

brake⁴noun

an open horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage

= shooting brake

[variant of break² in the sense ‘carriage frame used for breaking in horses’]

brake⁵/brayk/ noun

= bracken

[Middle English brake, prob introduced as a sing. of braken (see bracken), misapprehended as a pl]

brake⁶noun

a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp

(also brake harrow) a machine formerly used for breaking up large clumps of earth

[Middle English, perhaps related to break²]

brake⁷verb trans

to crush (flax and hemp) with a brake

brake⁸verb

archaic past tense of break¹

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brake1/brayk/ noun

brake2verb intrans

brake3noun literary

brake4noun

brake5/brayk/ noun

brake6noun

brake7verb trans

brake8verb