brake : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Air brake, in the Vocabulary.

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• noun rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley
  Cryptogramma acrostichoides; American parsley fern.
  

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• noun a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation
  

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• the beam that connects the brake blocks of opposite wheels.

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• . (a) The part of a brake holding the brake shoe. (b) A brake shoe.

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• noun a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston
  brake cylinder; master cylinder.
  

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• noun a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel; pressure is applied to it by the brake pads
  

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• noun a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
  drum.
  

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• noun brakes fail to stop a vehicle
  

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• noun a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
  stoplight.
  

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• noun the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum
  

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• noun one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk
  

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• noun foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder
  

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• noun a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
  skid; shoe.
  

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• the part of a brake against which the wheel rubs.

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• noun a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
  brakes.
  

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• a wheel on the platform or top of a car by which brakes are operated.

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• a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

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• noun North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
  dagger fern; Polystichum acrostichoides; evergreen wood fern; Christmas fern.
  

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• noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
  cliff brake; cliff-brake.
  

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• noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
  cliff brake; cliff-brake.
  

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• noun a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals
  

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• (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine.

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• noun hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads
  disc brake.
  

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• noun hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads
  disc brake.
  

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• noun a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft
  airbrake.
  

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• noun hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe
  

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• noun a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage
  emergency brake; hand brake; emergency.
  

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• a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous.

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• noun hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal
  

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• (Mach.), a form of dynamometer for measuring the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.

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• noun a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage
  emergency brake; hand brake; emergency.
  

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• noun brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes
  hydraulic brake.
  

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• a cataract. See Cataract, 3.

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• noun a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston
  brake cylinder; master cylinder.
  

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• noun brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes
  hydraulic brake.
  

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• noun a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage
  emergency brake; hand brake; emergency.
  

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• noun large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  bracken; brake; Pteridium aquilinum.
  

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• noun a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle
  

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• . See Pump handle, below.

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• noun very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
  Pellaea atropurpurea.
  

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• a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives.

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• noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
  cliff brake; cliff-brake.
  
• noun dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns
  
• noun chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
  American wall fern; rock polypody; Polypodium virgianum.
  

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• noun another name for a station wagon
  

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• noun Asiatic fern introduced in America
  Pteris multifida; spider fern.
  

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• a kind of continuous brake operated by exhausting the air from some appliance under each car, and so causing the pressure of the atmosphere to apply the brakes.

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