Brake (disambiguation)
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A brake is a device which inhibits motion. Its opposite component is a clutch.
Brake may also refer to one of the following:
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[edit] Transportation
- Brake, a device for slowing or stopping the motion of a machine
- Brake (railway)
- Brake (carriage), a derelict wagon or carriage used as a drag to slow up or steady horses in training for draft work, see shooting-brake
- Shooting-brake, originally a brake (as above) pressed into temporary service for transporting shooting parties and their equipment, later purpose built - see wagonette and later still a station wagon and currently also used (originally as an absurdity) for a high speed variant of a station wagon.
[edit] Places
- Brake (Unterweser), a city in Germany
- Brake, West Virginia
- Brake, a former independent city now incorporated into Lemgo, Germany
[edit] Business
- Brake Bros Ltd, a food distributor in the UK and France
[edit] Music
- Brakes (band), the UK band (known in America as BrakesBrakesBrakes)
- The Brakes, a modern rock band from Philadelphia
- Brakes, a 2008 single from the UK band Royworld
[edit] Other
- Brake, ferns of the genus Pteris
- Brake (sheet metal bending), a tool for bending sheet metal
- Brake (agriculture) an agricultural machine used to separate the woody parts of a plant from the fibre for textile crops such as hemp and flax
- Brake (surname)
- Brake (charity) a road safety charity
- Brake (film), a 2012 action film starring Stephen Dorff
[edit] See also
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