Brake



GRE 蓝宝 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.刹车; v.减速, 阻止
• ［英］ v.减速, 阻止 ( to slow down or stop with a brake)
• ［类］ : divert : shunt / retard : brake ( 转轨转变方向 / 刹车阻止前进)
• ［记］ 是""break""的古典形式

Webster Collegiate

I. *archaic past of break II. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, fern, probably back-formation from braken bracken
• Date: 14th century
• the common bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

III. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Low German; akin to Old English brecan to break
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a toothed instrument or machine for separating out the fiber of flax or hemp by breaking up the woody parts
• 2. a machine for bending, flanging, folding, and forming sheet metal

IV. noun

• Etymology: Middle English -brake
• Date: 1562
• rough or marshy land overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• ? braky adjective

V. noun

• Etymology: perhaps from obsolete brake bridle
• Date: circa 1782
• 1. a device for arresting or preventing the motion of a mechanism usually by means of friction
• 2. something used to slow down or stop movement or activity <use interest rates as a brake on spending>
• ? brakeless adjective

VI. verb (braked; braking)

• Date: 1868
• transitive verb
  • to retard or stop by or as if by a brake
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to operate or manage a brake; especially to apply the brake on a vehicle
  • 2. to become checked by a brake

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