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 →

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 →
• 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 →
• 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 →

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.
• When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward.
• On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more than looking cool.
• Picture the ABC check on the drive, Air, Brakes, Chain, then Bikeability training before you ride on the road.
• The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.