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Brike vs. Brake — What's the Difference?

Brike vs. Brake — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Brike and Brake

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Brike

A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

Brake

A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction.

Brake

A device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels
He slammed on his brakes
A brake pedal

Brake

Another term for brake van

Brake

An open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.
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Brake

A toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.

Brake

A thicket.

Brake

A coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments.

Brake

Make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake
She had to brake hard to avoid a milk float

Brake

A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.

Brake

Something that slows or stops action.

Brake

A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.

Brake

A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.

Brake

An apparatus for kneading large amounts of dough.

Brake

A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.

Brake

A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.

Brake

Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.

Brake

Any of certain other ferns, such as bracken.

Brake

An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.

Brake

A high horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.

Brake

To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.

Brake

To operate or apply a brake.

Brake

To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.

Brake

To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.

Brake

To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.

Brake

A past tense of break.

Brake

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.

Brake

The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

Brake

(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.

Brake

(figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

Brake

(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Brake

(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.

Brake

The handle of a pump.

Brake

A baker's kneading trough.

Brake

A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

Brake

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.

Brake

An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

Brake

A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.W

Brake

A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W

Brake

That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Brake

A fern; bracken (Pteridium).

Brake

Any fern in the genus Pteris

Brake

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

Brake

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

Brake

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

Brake

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

Brake

(obsolete) A cage.

Brake

A type of torture instrument.

Brake

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

Brake

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

Brake

(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough

Brake

(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

Brake

(archaic) break

Brake

A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the Pteris aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

Brake

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
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.

Brake

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Brake

An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

Brake

A baker's kneading though.

Brake

A sharp bit or snaffle.
Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit.

Brake

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.

Brake

That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Brake

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Brake

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

Brake

A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

Brake

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.

Brake

A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

Brake

An ancient instrument of torture.

Brake

A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Brake

Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

Brake

Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Brake

An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

Brake

Stop travelling by applying a brake;
We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road

Brake

Cause to stop by applying the brakes;
Brake the car before you go into a curve

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