brakes in English

noun

1

a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels.

he slammed on his brakes

2

an open, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage.

The cost of travelling by alternative means such as coach or brake was prohibitive over a season, so the railways were vital.

3

a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.

The farmer passed handfuls of flax through a tool called a flax brake to break up the hard inner core.

4

a thicket.

It is one of those thickets or brakes in which the cane grows from twelve to thirty feet in height.

verb

1

make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake.

drivers who brake abruptly

synonyms: slow down, slow, decelerate, reduce speed, stop

noun

• curb, check, restraint, restriction, constraint, control, limitation
• bracken

verb

• slow down, slow, decelerate, reduce speed, stop

Use "brakes" in a sentence

1. Learn the Types of Brakes & how disc Brakes differ from drum Brakes

2. Speed brakes.

3. Brakes Expertise You Can Count On Signs of Failing Brakes

4. Safety disc brakes (spring-actuated), disc brakes for wind power installations

5. Brakes have failed.

6. Brakes and suspension:

7. Pump your brakes.

8. Hit the brakes!

9. At Beefed Up Brakes, we specialize in brakes for your big tires

10. Put on the brakes!

11. The handle bars were a bit higher, brakes were mechanically actuated disc brakes.

12. Steady on the brakes.

13. The brakes began locking.

14. — air compressor for brakes

15. Aircraft landing wheel brakes

16. Eh, who needs brakes?

17. air compressor for brakes

18. Brakes for bicycles, cycles

19. Exhaust brakes don't produce the loud Blatting sound for which engine brakes are known

20. Good working Brakes are essential

21. I slammed on the brakes.

22. Our car has pneumatic brakes.

23. Buggy brakes are automotive-style, non-powered drum or disc brakes mounted to two wheels

24. Put the Brakes on Burnout!

25. Friction Brakes Friction brakes, the most common kind, operate on the principle Explanation of Braked

26. Block brakes for land vehicles

27. Putting the brakes on Coarseness

28. Prepare, Walt, for the brakes.

29. In March 1961, the air-cooled drum duplex brakes were replaced by modern Dunlop disc brakes.

30. Self-adjusting Brakes require little maintenance

31. So basically we got no brakes.

32. Then, a loud screech of brakes.

33. Brakes: One carbon fibre brake disc.

34. Does this thing have any brakes?

35. There was a squeal of brakes.

36. He never even applied the brakes.

37. Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes.

38. He heard the screech of brakes.

39. Feather the brakes, I reminded myself.

40. Frictional Brakes are most common and can be divided broadly into "shoe" or "pad" Brakes, using an explicit wear surface, and hydrodynamic Brakes, such as parachutes, which use friction in a working fluid and do not explicitly wear.Typically the term "friction brake" is used to mean pad/shoe Brakes and excludes hydrodynamic Brakes, even though hydrodynamic Brakes use friction.

41. It couldn't have stopped without brakes.

42. These brakes should be more responsive.

43. The bicycle brakes to a halt.

44. Automatic activation of the brakes (62) occurs.

45. A screech of brakes jarred the silence.

46. Single-track vehicle with electromagnetic disk brakes

47. Anti-lock brakes are fitted as standard.

48. From the handpicked materials to our controlled manufacturing process, Beefed Up Brakes are the best brakes for big tires.

49. Valves and brake cylinders for vehicle brakes

50. He stopped with a squeal of brakes.