Picture the pad clamping onto a moving wheel: something already rolling is slowed and brought to a stop by a force pressing against it. Once you have that picture, the figurative uses read themselves — whatever presses against growth or against a plan is a brake on it.
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原始詞典資料27 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Brakename
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A surname.
brakenoun詞源 1/bɹeɪk/
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A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.
- You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.
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A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- Give the car a quick brake.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
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A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAn ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
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obsoletegovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
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nauticaltransportThe handle of a pump.
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A baker’s kneading trough.
- You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
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A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
- He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
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A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
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A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
- shooting-brake
- It had been arranged as part of the day’s programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
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That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
brakeverb詞源 1/bɹeɪk/
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To operate a brake or brakes.
- Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.
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To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
brakenoun詞源 2/bɹeɪk/
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Certain ferns, including
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Certain ferns, including
brakenoun詞源 3/bɹeɪk/
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A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
- He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.
brakenoun詞源 4/bɹeɪk/
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A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleA large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesA tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
brakeverb詞源 4/bɹeɪk/
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To bruise and crush; to knead.
- The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
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To pulverise with a harrow.
brakenoun詞源 5/bɹeɪk/
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obsoleteA cage.
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historicalA type of torture instrument.
- Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.
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