brake – English noun declension

English noun forms of brake

Noun: brake
Singularbrake
Pluralbrakes

Sample Sentences

  • She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.
  • You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.
  • Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler. [1950 November 26, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781:]
  • Give the car a quick brake.
  • You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake. [1617, Gervase Markham, Cavalarice the English Horseman:]
  • He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were. [1868, March 7, The Illustrated London News, number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”, page 223]
  • shooting-brake
  • It had been arranged as part of the day’s programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them. [1976, Terrance Dicks, chapter 1, in Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, page 11:]

Etymology

Origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German brake (“nose ring, curb, flax brake”), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”).

Verbs referencing "brake"

Zulu Nouns ibhuleki.