break vs brake

Definitions

verb

1. enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
2. cause to give up a habit
3. break down, literally or metaphorically
4. undergo breaking
5. prevent completion

noun

1. an unexpected piece of good luck
2. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
3. an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
4. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
5. (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.

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Definitions

verb

1. cause to stop by applying the brakes
2. stop travelling by applying a brake

noun

1. anything that slows or hinders a process
2. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
3. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
4. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
5. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Examples

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.

The driver braked abruptly, causing the car to skid a little.

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