Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
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 |
Touched (imp. & p. p.) of Touch |
Touching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touch |
Touch (v. t.) To come in contact with |
Touch (v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
Touch (v. t.) To come to |
Touch (v. t.) To try |
Touch (v. t.) To relate to |
Touch (v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with |
Touch (v. t.) To meddle or interfere with |
Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of |
Touch (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches |
Touch (v. t.) To infect |
Touch (v. t.) To make an impression on |
Touch (v. t.) To strike |
Touch (v. t.) To perform, as a tune |
Touch (v. t.) To influence by impulse |
Touch (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress. |
Touch (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree |
Touch (v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
Touch (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
Touch (v. i.) To be in contact |
Touch (v. i.) To fasten |
Touch (v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner |
Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. |
Touch (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched |
Touch (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized |
Touch (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion. |
Touch (v.) An emotion or affection. |
Touch (v.) Personal reference or application. |
Touch (v.) A stroke |
Touch (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
Touch (v.) Feature |
Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument |
touch touching | the act of putting two things together with no space between them, at his touch the room filled with lights |
touch football | a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled |
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 |
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 |
touch screen touchscreen | a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen |
touch signature | a distinguishing style, this room needs a woman's touch |
common touch | the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) |
touch | the feel of mechanical action, this piano has a wonderful touch |
Midas touch | an ability to make and manage large amounts of money |
touch | deftness in handling matters, he has a master's touch |
finishing touch capstone copestone | a final touch, a crowning achievement, a culmination |
touch sense of touch skin senses touch modality cutaneous senses | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us |
tactual sensation tactility touch perception skin perceptiveness | the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain |
touch touch sensation tactual sensation tactile sensation feeling | the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin, she likes the touch of silk on her skin, the surface had a greasy feeling |
touch typing touch system | typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys, typist can read and type at the same time |
touch trace ghost | a suggestion of some quality, there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone, he detected a ghost of a smile on her face |
touch | the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan), he watched the beggar trying to make a touch |
stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
touch touching | the event of something coming in contact with the body, he longed for the touch of her hand, the cooling touch of the night air |
brush light touch | momentary contact |
brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
chump fool gull mark patsy fall guy sucker soft touch mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
touch-typist | a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant live-and-die humble plant action plant Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |
squirting cucumber exploding cucumber touch-me-not Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched |
jewelweed lady's earrings orange balsam celandine touch-me-not Impatiens capensis | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers, grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil |
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 |