Clutch vs. Brake

Clutchverb

To seize, as though with claws.

Clutchverb

To grip or grasp tightly.

Clutchverb

(transitive) To hatch.

Clutchnoun

The claw of a predatory animal or bird.

Clutchnoun

(by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.

Clutchnoun

A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.

Clutchnoun

The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.

Clutchnoun

Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

Clutchnoun

A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.

Clutchnoun

(US) An important or critical situation.

Clutchnoun

A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.

Clutchnoun

A group or bunch (of people or things).

Clutchadjective

Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.

Clutchnoun

A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

Clutchnoun

The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; - often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

Clutchnoun

A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

Clutchnoun

Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

Clutchnoun

The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

Clutchverb

To seize, clasp, or grip with the hand, hands, or claws; - often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

Clutchverb

To close tightly; to clinch.

Clutchverb

To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; - often followed by at.

Clutchverb

to become too tense or frightened to perform properly; used sometimes with up; as, he clutched up on the exam.

Clutchnoun

the act of grasping;

Clutchnoun

a tense critical situation;

Clutchnoun

a number of birds hatched at the same time

Clutchnoun

a collection of things or persons to be handled together

Clutchnoun

a pedal that operates a clutch

Clutchnoun

a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

Clutchverb

take hold of; grab;

Clutchverb

hold firmly, usually with one's hands;

Clutchverb

affect;

Clutch

A clutch is a mechanical device that engages and disengages power transmission, especially from a drive shaft (driving shaft) to a driven shaft. In the simplest application, clutches connect and disconnect two rotating shafts (drive shafts or line shafts).

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.