brake: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ defective, faulty
▪ front, rear
▪ emergency (AmE), foot (usually footbrake), hand (usually handbrake) (esp. BrE), parking (AmE)
▪ air, anti-lock, disc, drum, vacuum
VERB + BRAKE
▪ apply, hit, jam on, put on, slam on, use
▪ She slammed on the brakes to try to avoid the dog.
▪ put your foot on, slam your foot on
▪ keep your foot on
▪ let off, release, take your foot off
▪ He released the brake and sped off.
BRAKE + VERB
▪ work
▪ My brakes are not working properly.
▪ fail
▪ The car crashed after its brakes failed.
▪ screech, squeal
▪ be off, be on
BRAKE + NOUN
▪ failure
▪ cable, fluid, lights, pads, pedal, pipes, shoes (esp.AmE)
PHRASES
▪ act as a brake on sth, serve as a brake on sth (both figurative)
▪ put a brake on sth, put the brakes on sth (figurative)
▪ The need to earn some money put the brakes on my wilder ambitions.
▪ a screech of brakes, a squeal of brakes
▪ We heard the screech of brakes, followed by a loud crash.
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
ADVERB
▪ hard, heavily (esp. BrE), sharply (esp. BrE), suddenly
PHRASES
▪ brake to a halt
▪ The train braked to a shuddering halt.
▪ brake to avoid sth
▪ She braked suddenly to avoid a cat.
Brake is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑train