| 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 |
| cylinder | a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air |
| cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
| cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
| cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
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 |
engine block
cylinder block
block | a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine, the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked |
flatbed press
cylinder press | a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
| graduated cylinder | a cylindrical graduate |
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 |
servo
servomechanism
servosystem | control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power, may include a negative feedback system |
| shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
| 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 |
| cylinder | a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) |
| element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
| cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line |
| brake | cause to stop by applying the brakes, brake the car before you go into a curve |
| brake | stop travelling by applying a brake, We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road |
servomechanical
servo | of or involving servomechanisms |