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5-letter words (4 found)

BAKER,BRAKE,BREAK,KEBAR,

4-letter words (14 found)

ABER,BAKE,BARE,BARK,BEAK,BEAR,BERK,BRAE,BRAK,KBAR,KERB,KRAB,RAKE,REAK,

3-letter words (15 found)

AKE,ARB,ARE,ARK,BAE,BAR,BRA,EAR,ERA,ERK,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,REB,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AE,AR,BA,BE,EA,ER,KA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from brake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of brake

brake

Pronunciation

  • enPR: brāk, IPA(key): /bɹeɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk
  • Homophone: break

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German brake (“nose ring, curb, flax brake”), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”).

Alternative forms

  • break (rare)

Noun

brake (plural brakes)

  1. 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. [from 18th c.]
    1. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
    2. (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
    3. (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
  2. (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
    1. (obsolete) The winch of a crossbow. [14th–19th c.]
  3. (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
    Synonym: swipe
  4. A baker's kneading trough.
  5. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
    1. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
    2. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
      • 1868, March 7, The Illustrated London News, number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”, page 223:
        He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
    3. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.W
    4. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W
  6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: ブレーキ (burēki)
  • → Korean: 브레이크 (beureikeu)
  • → Portuguese: breque
  • → Swahili: breki
  • → Thai: เบรก (brèek)
  • → Welsh: brêc
Translations

Verb

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.
Synonyms
  • (to operate brakes):
  • (to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking): See also Thesaurus:stop
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "to operate brakes"): floor it, put the pedal to the metal, redline
  • (antonym(s) of "to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking"): accelerate
Derived terms
  • aerobrake
  • lithobrake
Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently a shortened form of bracken. (Compare chick, chicken.)

Noun

brake (plural brakes)

  1. A fern; bracken (Pteridium). [from 14th c.]
  2. Any fern in the genus Pteris
Derived terms
  • cliffbrake
  • rockbrake
Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English bracu, first attested in plural form fearnbraca (“thickets of fern”), probably from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”) and influenced by sense 2 (“fern”). Compare Middle Low German brake (“stump, branch”).

Noun

brake (plural brakes)

  1. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. [from 15th c.]
Derived terms
  • cypress brake
Translations

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  • “brake”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Etymology 4

Late Middle English, from Middle Low German brake, Dutch braak, Old Dutch braeke; possibly related to sense 1.

Noun

brake (plural brakes)

  1. (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. [from 15th c.]
  2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
  3. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
Related terms
  • (textiles) hackle, ripple, scutch, swingle
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
  2. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow
Derived terms
  • brakeage
Translations

Etymology 5

Uncertain.

Noun

brake (plural brakes)

  1. (obsolete) A cage. [16th–17th c.]
  2. (now historical) A type of torture instrument. [from 16th c.]

Etymology 6

Inflected forms.

Verb

brake

  1. (archaic) simple past of break

Anagrams

  • Abrek, Baker, baker, barke, break

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

brake

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of breken
  2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of braken

Anagrams

  • baker

Yola

Verb

brake

  1. simple past tense of brek

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

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