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Princeton's WordNet

  1. brake system, brakesnoun

    a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle

Wikipedia

  1. brakes

    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.

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  1. brakes

    Brakes refer to a mechanical device or system that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. They are generally used to stop or slow down moving vehicles by converting kinetic energy into heat, often through friction. They are an essential safety feature in automobiles, bicycles, aircraft, and many other types of machinery.

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  1. Brakes

    Brakes is a four member band from Brighton, England. The group formed in 2003. It consists of Eamon Hamilton, Thomas White, Marc Beatty, and Alex White.

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  1. bakers

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  3. breaks

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brakes in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brakes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of brakes in a Sentence

  1. Foreign Minister Qin:

    If the United States does not hit the brakes, but continues to speed down the wrong path, no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing, and there will surely be conflict and confrontation.

  2. Ari Vatanen:

    The first car came at two o'clock in the morning and time stopped there in my life, the first car was a white Volvo 544 and it came with the drum brakes red hot and it was kicking up the dust... that stuff absolutely took my breath away and my body stayed on that bank in that luminous summer night but my mind went with the car.

  3. Antonio Vidal-Puig:

    We are stopping the brakes within the fat cells.

  4. Capital Economics:

    This won't be anywhere near as severe or as persistent as in the 1970s, but for the next six months, the worsening product and labor shortages will put the brakes on the economic recovery at the same time as higher energy prices drive up CPI inflation from 3.2 % in August to a peak of around 5.0 % in April next year.

  5. David Kelly:

    The danger with one-party government going into 2021 is we'd potentially overheat the economy, it's very easy to hit the accelerator( on stimulus). But the question is whether the car would have any brakes.

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