Bust vs Brake - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bust and brake

is that bust is while brake is to bruise and crush; to knead or brake can be to operate (a) brake(s) or brake can be (lb) (break).

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.

bust

English

(wikipedia bust)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) buste < (etyl) busto, probably from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders

The breasts and upper thorax of a woman

Derived terms

* busty * overbust * underbust

Etymology 2

From the verb .

Verb

(en verb)

To break something

(slang) To arrest for a crime

(slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

(snowboarding) An emphatic to do

(US, informal) To reduce in rank.

* 1962 , , 01:56:35

If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.

(poker) To lose all of one's chips.

(blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.

Synonyms

; to arrest for a crime : nick

Derived terms

* bust a cap * bust a gasket * bust a move * bust a nut * bust ass cold * bust loose * bust one's ass * bust one's balls * bust one's chops * bust out * bust up

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation:

a narcotics bust

(slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.

(sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.

(chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.

Adjective

(-)

(slang) without any money, broke

Derived terms

* bust up/bust-up * (adjective) * buster

Anagrams

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brake

English

(brake)

Etymology 1

Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)

Noun

(en noun)

A fern; bracken.

Etymology 2

Compare Middle Low German brake.

Noun

(en noun)

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

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

* Shakespeare

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stayed not for brake , and he stopped not for stone.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) braeke.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Verb

(brak)

To bruise and crush; to knead

The farmer's son brakes''' the flax while mother ' brakes the bread dough

To pulverise with a harrow

Derived terms

* brakeage

Etymology 4

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

(Johnson)

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”, page 223:

He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.

#* J. Brende

A horseand because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.

# A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

# A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.^(w)

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That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

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 brake

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

(brak)

To operate (a) brake(s).

To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Etymology 5

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A cage.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 83:

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)

(lb) (break)

* Exodus 32:3, KJV:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings

Anagrams

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