Air brake
() A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
Black lead
() Plumbago |
Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Brake
() imp. of Break. |
Brake
(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
Brake
(n.) A thicket |
Brake
(v. t.) 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
(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. |
Brake
(v. t.) A baker's kneading though. |
Brake
(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. |
Brake
(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him |
Brake
(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. |
Brake
(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing |
Brake
(v. t.) 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
(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome |
Brake
(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. |
Brake
() of Break |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
D valve
() A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Kingston valve
() A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. |
Lead
(n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
Lead
(n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead |
Lead
(n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. |
Lead
(n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. |
Lead
(n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs |
Lead
(n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. |
Lead
(v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead |
Lead
(v. t.) To place leads between the lines of |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known |
Lead
(v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority |
Lead
(v. t.) To go or to be in advance of |
Lead
(v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course) |
Lead
(v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with |
Lead
(v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc. |
Lead
(v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place |
Lead
(n.) The act of leading or conducting |
Lead
(n.) precedence |
Lead
(n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round |
Lead
(n.) An open way in an ice field. |
Lead
(n.) A lode. |
Lead
(n.) The course of a rope from end to end. |
Lead
(n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. |
Lead
(n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. |
Lead
(n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. |
Lever
(a.) More agreeable |
Lever
(adv.) Rather. |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
| lever hang | a hang performed on the rings with the body stationary in a horizontal position |
| lead | the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge, the lead was in the dummy |
| lead | a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'), he takes the lead in any group, we were just waiting for someone to take the lead, they didn't follow our lead |
| valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
| valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| 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 |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
| clip lead | a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends |
| coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
| compound lever | a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
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 |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
gearshift
gearstick
shifter
gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
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 |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
lead
pencil lead | mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness, the marking substance in a pencil |
| lead leading | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing |
lead-acid battery
lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
| lead-in | wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line |
lead line
sounding line | (nautical) plumb line for determining depth |
| lead pencil | pencil that has graphite as the marking substance |
leash
tether
lead | restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal |
| lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum |
| lever lever tumbler | a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock |
| lever | a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum |