Synonym: curb, decelerate, slow down, stop. Similar words: brand, branch, brand new, embrace, celebration, take, bake, make. Meaning: [breɪk] n. 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. v. 1. stop travelling by applying a brake 2. cause to stop by applying the brakes.
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91. In April 1992 they persuaded Boris Yeltsin to put three industrialists into the government to act as a brake on the free-marketeers.
92. Streuer had to brake hard, and on purpose he just nudged my backside with the front of his bike.
93. But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees.
94. In front of the second dicky are the aforementioned fuel tank selector, cowl flap, cabin heat and air controls and parking brake.
95. Any two surfaces rubbing together produce frictional heat, such as a brake shoe pressing against a brake-drum.
96. The tour also visits several conservancy preserves, including newly acquired Watson Brake Mounds, one of the oldest mound complexes known.
97. If poor quality replacements have been fitted they may react with the brake fluid.
98. This will take us about three months to complete after which we will concentrate on fitting brake and lubrication gear.
99. And because the body is made from light carbon fibre, the result is a staggering 380 brake horsepower per ton.
100. But things like hand brake levers and diff lock activators come in different places.
101. The driver of the car said he tried to brake to avoid the accident, but it was already too late.
102. The trains were fitted throughout with the Westinghouse brake, in accordance with Continental practice, and with steam-heating apparatus.
103. I couldn't pull over without forcing some one else to brake and I simply didn't have the power to get away.
104. I suggest you check that your stop lights work when you press the brake pedal.
105. In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure.
106. Stand by the bicycle, apply the front brake and try to push the bicycle forwards.
107. In wet weather cars sometimes aquaplane when you brake heavily.
108. Please engage the eddy current brake.
109. Where is the brake and steering gear?
110. Includes Quarrying, Tyre, Brake and Road Surface Wear.
111. Connect parking brake cable to brackets and lever.
112. Continuous brake system is an important one which is independent of main brake system and parking brake system.
113. Something, such as a sea anchor or a brake on a fishing reel(Sentencedict.com), that retards motion.
114. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.
115. Most fault conditions will set a ABS fault code in the CAB (controller anti-lock brake), which can be retrieved to aid in fault diagnosis.
116. The study on the hydro viscous brake shows that a coupling relationship exists among the parameters of oil film thickness, hydro viscous torque and friction disc speed.
117. The real open oil press brake,(http://sentencedict.com/brake.html) can make up the damage of exhaust.
118. Functionally, an automotive brake system can be divided into wheel brake mechanism and parking brake mechanism.
119. In view of 120-1 air brake fault characteristics, it used fault tree analytic method union logic code way to establish knowledge rule-set.
120. So, in a sense, the working state of pads will affect brake efficiency directly.