airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
brake | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
brake | anything that slows or hinders a process, she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage, new legislation will put the brakes on spending |
brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
brake cylinder hydraulic brake cylinder master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
brake drum drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
brake lining | the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum |
brake pad | one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk |
brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder |
brake shoe shoe skid | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
brake system brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
fluid drive | an automotive power coupling |
fluid flywheel | a kind of fluid coupling in which the flywheel is the driving rotor |
foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
hand brake emergency emergency brake parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hydraulic brake hydraulic brakes | brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder, brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes |
power brake | a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle |
shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
liquid body substance bodily fluid body fluid humor humour | the liquid parts of the body |
extracellular fluid ECF | liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid, the body normally has about quarts of extracellular fluid |
interstitial fluid | liquid found between the cells of the body that provides much of the liquid environment of the body |
intracellular fluid | liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes) |
amniotic fluid amnionic fluid waters | the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion, before a woman gives birth her waters break |
semen seed seminal fluid ejaculate cum come | the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract |
digestive juice digestive fluid | secretions that aid digestion |
synovia synovial fluid | viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. |
spinal fluid cerebrospinal fluid | clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain, fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord |
Pascal's law Pascal's law of fluid pressures | pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions, the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid, the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law |
fluid mechanics hydraulics | study of the mechanics of fluids |
stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
rock polypody rock brake American wall fern Polypodium virgianum | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia |
bracken pasture brake brake Pteridium aquilinum | large coarse fern often several feet high, essentially weed ferns, cosmopolitan |
Christmas fern canker brake dagger fern evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
rock brake | dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns |
American rock brake American parsley fern Cryptogramma acrostichoides | rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley |
cliff brake cliff-brake rock brake | any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions |
purple rock brake Pellaea atropurpurea | very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes |
brake | any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants |
spider brake spider fern Pteris multifida | Asiatic fern introduced in America |
fluidram fluid dram fluid drachm drachm | a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce |
fluidounce fluid ounce | a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to . cubic inches |
fluidram fluid dram fluid drachm drachm | a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal tominims or . cubic centimeters |
fluidounce fluid ounce | a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to fluid drams or . cubic centimeters (. cubic inches) |
drilling mud drilling fluid | a mixture of clays and chemicals and water, pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole |