Brakes vs Breaker - What's the difference?
brakes | breaker |
Something that breaks.
A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
The building in which such a machine is placed.
A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A person who specializes in breaking things.
(chiefly, in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
* 1919 ,
(colloquial) A breakdancer.
A user of CB radio.
As nouns the difference between brakes and breaker
is that brakes is plural of lang=en while breaker is something that breaks.As a verb brakes
is third-person singular of brake.breaker
English
(wikipedia breaker)Noun
(en noun)- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
- Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish [...]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
