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# brake

«brake» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **broke** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

broke

### part of speech

verb, past tense of break

### meaning for a pupil

Broke into pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brake/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "brake" means the part that stops a vehicle. Here it is an old form of broke, and in one sentence it means a thicket.

### examples

- The spring flood was lifting the ice covering, which brake into a thousand pieces. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brake/#x1)
- The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake. (Irish Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brake/#x2)
- Gold! gold!' he shouted, again holding the glass aloft, that it might flash in the sunshine; but his hand trembled, and the alchymic glass fell from it, clattering to the ground, and brake in a thousand pieces. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brake/#x3)

### primary record

brake

### tests

manual 6; corpora 4 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Brakes should be checked before a ride.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/18/)
- [When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/11/)
- [On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more than looking cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/5/)
- [Picture the ABC check on the drive, Air, Brakes, Chain, then Bikeability training before you ride on the road.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/6/)
- [The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.