Definizione monolingua

brake

brake (third-person singular simple present brakes, present participle braking, simple past and past participle braked)

1. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
2. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
3. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead

   The farmers son brake the flax while mother brakes the bread dough

4. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

brake (plural brakes)

1. A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural.
2. Something that slows or stops an action
3. (nautical) The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ships pump was worked
4. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
5. (obsolete) A specific torture instrument

Definizione dizionario brake

	frenare
	to operate (a) brake(s)
	Decelerate using a mechanical device

	freno
	device used to slow or stop a vehicle

estro

opprimere

ritenere

Altri significati:

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

(obsolete) A specific torture instrument

(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Something that slows or stops an action

(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

(nautical) The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked

A fern type, bracken

A canebreak

(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead

to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking

(archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of break.

A four-wheeled carriage type

A mechanical device used to slow an object or vehicle.