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   Brake
   Two- and three-seated sporting rigs, four-wheeled and open; two-seated brake toys are especially prized and are known in only a few advanced collections.
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   Brake
   Lever on a counterweight system that locks the rope, so stopping accidental movement.
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   brake
   [n] - any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants 2. [n] - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant 3. [n] - a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle 4. [v] - stop travelling by applying a brake 5. [v] - cause to stop by applying the brakes
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   brake
   A device or mechanism to check a wheel`s motion or decelerate a vehicle; 2)A structure to check a water channel or irrigation Category: Management in the public and private sector • a device for applying resistance to the motion of a body(e.g.of a machine part),either in order to retard it(as with a vehicle brake),or to absorb and measure the power developed by an engine or motor Ca...
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   Brake
   Brake (brāk), imperfect of Break . [ Arhaic] Tennyson.
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   Brake
   Brake noun [ Middle English brake fern; confer Anglo-Saxon bracce fern, LG. brake willow bush, Da. bregne fern, German brach fallow; probably orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, from the root of English break . See Break , transitive verb , confer Bracken , and 2d Brake , noun ] ...
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   Brake
   Brake (brāk) noun [ Middle English brake ; confer LG. brake an instrument for breaking flax, German breche , from the root of English break . See Break , transitive verb , and confer Breach .] 1. An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. ...
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   brake
   1. <botany> A fern of the genus Pteris, especially. The P. Aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. ... 2. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. 'Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, T ...
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   brake
   noun a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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    brake
    noun an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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    brake
    verb cause to stop by applying the brakes; `brake the car before you go into a curve`
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    Brake
    A `brake` is a device for slowing or stopping the motion of a machine or vehicle, or alternatively a device to restrain it from starting to move again. The kinetic energy lost by the moving part is usually translated to heat by friction. Alternatively, in regenerative braking, much of the energy is recovered and stored in a flywheel, capacitor or turned into alternating current by an alternator, then rectified and stored in a battery for later us...
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    Brake
    • (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. • (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. • (v. t.) A piece of mechanism...
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    brake
    device for decreasing the speed of a body or for stopping its motion. Most brakes act on rotating mechanical elements and absorb kinetic energy ... [7 related articles]
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    Brake
    A spring loaded clamping device that prevents the elevator from moving when the car is at rest and no power is applied to the hoistway motor.
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    brake
    
    1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
    2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
    3. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
    4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
    
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    brake
    device capable of reducing the rotor speed or stopping rotation
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    Brake
    A device, incorporated into material handling equipment, utilized to retard or stop the motion of that piece of equipment. Often utilized in conjunction with the motor of that equipment or may be mechanical in nature, utilizing a 'ratchet and pawl' configuration.
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    Brake
    A device to hold a warp beam from turning, made of a metal cable or band which winds on a metal drum.
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    brake
    brake, in botany: see bracken.
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    brake
    brake, in technology, device to slow or stop the motion of a mechanism or vehicle.Sections in this article:IntroductionTypesBraking Systems
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