Broken vs Brake - What's the difference?
broken | brake |
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See .)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
To bruise and crush; to knead
To pulverise with a harrow
(label) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
# (label) The winch of a crossbow.
The handle of a pump.
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
# The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
# (label) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
# (label) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
A baker's kneading trough.
A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
# A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
# An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
#* 1868 , March 7, The Illustrated London News , number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”,
#* J. Brende
# A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
# A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.(w)
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=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 .}}
#*{{quote-book, year=1976, author=(Terrance Dicks)
, title=, chapter=1, page=11
, passage=A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.}}
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
To operate (a) brake(s).
To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
(obsolete) A cage.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 83:
(lb) (break)
* Exodus 32:3, KJV:
As a proper noun broken
is (derogatory|slang) torres strait creole.As a noun brake is
a fern; bracken or brake can be a thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc or brake can be a tool used for breaking flax or hemp or brake can be (label) an ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista or brake can be (obsolete) a cage.As a verb brake is
to bruise and crush; to knead or brake can be to operate (a) brake(s) or brake can be (lb) (break).broken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "broken" is often applied: glass, vase, cup, mirror, window, bone, wing, leg, arm, hand, foot, heart, egg, tool, sword, column, road, bridge, stick, device, machine, camera, TV, car, computer, promise, vow, law, trust, dream, relationship, friendship, love, family, marriage, bond, tie, silence, ground, land, circle, image, language, spirit, soul.Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * broke * broken home * brokenly * brokenness * broken arrow * broken by design * broken language, broken English * broken heart, brokenhearted * broken in * broken promise * broken wind * heartbroken * housebroken * broken skinbrake
English
(brake)Etymology 1
Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)Etymology 2
Compare Middle Low German brake.Noun
(en noun)- He halts, and searches with his eyes
- Among the scatter'd rocks:
- And now at distance can discern
- A stirring in a brake of fern
- Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
- He stayed not for brake , and he stopped not for stone.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) braeke.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(brak)- The farmer's son brakes''' the flax while mother ' brakes the bread dough
Derived terms
* brakeageEtymology 4
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- (Johnson)
page 223:
- He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
- A horseand because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.
Derived terms
* air brake * antilock brake * brake band * brake disc * brake drum * brake fluid * brake harrow * brake horsepower * brake lining * brakeman, brakesman * brake drum * brake pad * brake van * brake wheel * brakey * caliper brake * disc brake * emergency brake * foot brake * hand brake * parking brake * press brakeDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
(brak)Etymology 5
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes .
Etymology 6
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)- And all the people brake off the golden earrings