Brake vs. Dynamometer

Brakenoun

A fern; bracken.

Brakenoun

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

Brakenoun

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

Brakenoun

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

Brakenoun

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

Brakenoun

(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Brakenoun

(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.

Brakenoun

The handle of a pump.

Brakenoun

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.

Brakenoun

The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

Brakenoun

(engineering) 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.

Brakenoun

(figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

Brakenoun

A baker's kneading trough.

Brakenoun

A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

Brakenoun

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.

Brakenoun

An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

Brakenoun

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

Brakenoun

A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W

Brakenoun

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

Brakenoun

(obsolete) A cage.

Brakenoun

A type of torture instrument.

Brakeverb

(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead

Brakeverb

(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

Brakeverb

(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).

Brakeverb

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

Brakeverb

(archaic) break

Brake

imp. of Break.

Brakenoun

A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the Pteris aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

Brakenoun

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

Brakenoun

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Brakenoun

An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

Brakenoun

A baker's kneading though.

Brakenoun

A sharp bit or snaffle.

Brakenoun

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

Brakenoun

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

Brakenoun

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Brakenoun

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

Brakenoun

A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

Brakenoun

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.

Brakenoun

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

Brakenoun

An ancient instrument of torture.

Brakenoun

a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Brakenoun

any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

Brakenoun

large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Brakenoun

an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

Brakeverb

stop travelling by applying a brake;

Brakeverb

cause to stop by applying the brakes;

Brakenoun

a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels

Brakenoun

a thing that slows or hinders a process

Brakenoun

another term for brake van

Brakenoun

an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.

Brakenoun

a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.

Brakenoun

a heavy machine formerly used in agriculture for breaking up large lumps of earth.

Brakenoun

a thicket.

Brakenoun

a coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments.

Brakenoun

archaic term for bracken

Brakeverb

make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake

Brake

A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction.

Dynamometernoun

Any of various devices used to measure mechanical power, force, or torque.

Dynamometernoun

An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

Dynamometernoun

measuring instrument designed to measure power

Dynamometer

A dynamometer or for short, is a device for simultaneously measuring the torque and rotational speed (RPM) of an engine, motor or other rotating prime mover so that its instantaneous power may be calculated, and usually displayed by the dynamometer itself as kW or bhp. In addition to being used to determine the torque or power characteristics of a machine under test, dynamometers are employed in a number of other roles.