Gear vs Brake - What's the difference?

As a proper noun gear

is feb (february).

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).

gear

English

Noun

(wikipedia gear)

(uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.

Clothing; garments.

* Spenser

Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .

(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

(Chaucer)

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

Homely gear and common ware.

(countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.

(countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.

(countable) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque

(slang) recreational drugs

* 2003 , Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)

Have you got any gear ? Dominic, have you got any acid?

(uncountable, archaic) stuff.

* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

"When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose."

(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.

* Spenser

Thus go they both together to their gear .

(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.

(Wright)

* Latimer

That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Synonyms

* cog, cogwheel, gearwheel

Derived terms

* change gear * change gears * high gear * gear lever * gear shift * gear up * shift gear * shift gears * up a gear

Verb

(en verb)

(engineering) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.

(engineering) To be in, or come into, gear.

to dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(mostly British (Scouse) ) great or fantastic

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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