brake vs break
Definitions
verb
- cause to stop by applying the brakes
- stop travelling by applying a brake
noun
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Examples
Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
Definitions
verb
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- cause to give up a habit
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- undergo breaking
- prevent completion
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
Examples
Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
It didn't break, but George was bleeding and had copped a bit of a shiner.
‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
