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brakes::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brake system |
| Type of | brake |
| Has types | hydraulic brake, hydraulic brakes |
Examples of brakes
brakes
More than 2,000 metal studs are added to the tires and the bikes have no brakes.
From the stltoday.com
When the driver hits the brakes, the liquid is pumped into a high-pressure tank.
From the businessweek.com
Against that, the brakes are firm and progressive and the gearchange is precise.
From the independent.co.uk
This in a weak economy that has forced much bigger names to hit the brakes hard.
From the stltoday.com
The operator of a third train on the line hit the emergency brakes on time, too.
From the washingtonpost.com
First-time race viewers may be surprised that the motorcycles don't have brakes.
From the ocregister.com
The frontal cortex helps put the brakes on unhealthy behaviors, Volkow explains.
From the dailyherald.com
It insists that the cars are safe to drive and drivers are never without brakes.
From the guardian.co.uk
At halftime, I told our coaches I felt like a car going downhill without brakes.
From the sacbee.com
- A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- Stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
- Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- Cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
- Bracken: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- A brake is a device which inhibits motion. Its opposite component is a clutch. The rest of this article is dedicated to various types of vehicular brakes.
- Pteris (brake) is a genus of about 280 species of ferns, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
- A brake, also spelled break, was a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries. It was a large or small, open-topped, straight-bodied pleasure vehicle with four wheels, designed for country use. ...
