Brake

(noun.) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.

(noun.) anything that slows or hinders a process; 'she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage'; 'new legislation will put the brakes on spending'.

(noun.) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.

(noun.) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.

(verb.) cause to stop by applying the brakes; 'brake the car before you go into a curve'.

(verb.) stop travelling by applying a brake; 'We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road'.

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• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A brake was provided for in the specification, as were also variable gears for changing speed, and an automatic blower for the fire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• To stop, the armature circuit was opened by the main switch and the brake applied. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• She vanished in a hollow for a few moments, and then her whole form unfolded itself from the brake. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He obtained the desired speed and load with a friction brake; also regulator of speed; but waited for an indicator to verify it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The first back-pedal brake is shown in United States Pat. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To stop the locomotive, the armature circuit was opened by the main switch, stopping the flow of current, and then brakes were applied by long levers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The cars would be all right with their good metal-to-metal brakes and anyway, coming down, they would not be loaded. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• To your brakes and caves, ye outlawed thieves! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• All of the parts of the bicycle have come in for a share of attention at the hands of inventors, differential speed gears and brakes having received especial attention. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Suddenly there was the sound of the brakes and the shutting off of a motor-car. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This latter car had an interesting adjunct in an electric braking system (covered by Edison's Patent No. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Improved clutches, gear ratios which permit varying speeds, double-braking systems and electric lights are present-day refinements which add zest to the sport of motorcycling. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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