handbrake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From hand + brake.
Compound parts: hand
brake
Inflected forms:
form: handbrakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hand brake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: handbrakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handbraking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: handbraked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: handbraked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hand brake
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
pos: noun
examples: On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.
gloss: The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.
pos: noun
gloss: To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.
pos: verb
Synonyms: parking brake
Derived words: handbrake turn
release the handbrake
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: جَلَنْط
roman: jalanṭ
lang: Bengali
word: হাত ব্রেক
roman: hat brek
lang: Catalan
word: fre de mà
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 手掣
roman: sau² zai³
lang: Chinese
word: 手擋 /手挡
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 手剎 /手刹
roman: shǒushā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 手剎車 /手刹车
roman: shǒushāchē
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 手閘 /手闸
roman: shǒuzhá
lang: Danish
word: håndbremse
lang: Dutch
word: handrem
lang: Faroese
word: hondbremsa
lang: Finnish
word: käsijarru
lang: Finnish
word: seisontajarru
lang: French
word: frein à main
lang: West-Frisian
word: hânrem
lang: German
word: Handbremse
lang: Greek
word: χειρόφρενο
roman: cheirófreno
lang: Hebrew
word: אמברקס
roman: ambreks
lang: Hungarian
word: kézifék
lang: Icelandic
word: handbremsa
lang: Icelandic
word: handhemill
lang: Italian
word: freno a mano
lang: Japanese
word: ハンドブレーキ
roman: handoburēki
lang: Korean
word: 핸드브레이크
roman: haendeubeureikeu
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Handbrems
lang: Macedonian
word: рачна кочница
roman: račna kočnica
lang: Norwegian
word: håndbrekk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: håndbrems
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: handbrems
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: håndbremse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: handbremse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: håndbrekk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: handbrekk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: handbremse
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: handbrems
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: handbrekk
lang: Persian
word: ترمز دستی
roman: tormoz dasti
lang: Polish
word: hamulec ręczny
lang: Portuguese
word: freio de mão
lang: Portuguese
word: travão de mão
lang: Russian
word: ручно́й то́рмоз
roman: ručnój tórmoz
lang: Russian
word: ручни́к
roman: ručník
lang: Spanish
word: freno de mano
lang: Swedish
word: handbroms
lang: Tagalog
word: kamay-pigil
lang: Turkish
word: el freni
lang: Welsh
word: brêc llaw