handbrake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
    — 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.
  2. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.

词形变化

handbrakes plural hand brake alternative handbrakes present,singular,third-person handbraking participle,present handbraked participle,past handbraked past hand brake alternative

词汇关系

近义词
parking brake
衍生词
handbrake turn release the handbrake

词源

词源 1
From hand + brake.
词源 2
From hand + brake.
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