Brake (disambiguation)

A brake is a device which inhibits motion.

Brake may also refer to one of the following:

Transportation

 * Brake (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage used to train horses for draft work
 * Railway brake
 * Air brake (disambiguation)
 * Air brake (aeronautics), in aeronautics, a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed
 * Air brake (road vehicle), a type of brake used on large vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes, using compressed air
 * Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
 * Hydraulic brake
 * Dynamic braking
 * Regenerative brake
 * Electromagnetic brake
 * Emergency brake (train)
 * Parking brake
 * Counter-pressure brake
 * Drum brake
 * Disc brake
 * Archaic past tense of the verb 'to break' (see brake)

Places

 * Brake, Lower Saxony, a city in Germany
 * Brake, West Virginia
 * Brake, a former independent city now incorporated into Lemgo, Germany

Business

 * Brake Bros Ltd, a food distributor in the UK and France

Literature and film

 * Brake (film), a 2012 action film starring Stephen Dorff
 * "Brake" (Anderson), Science Fiction story by Poul Anderson

Music

 * Brakes (band), the UK band (known in America as BrakesBrakesBrakes)
 * The Brakes, a modern rock band from Philadelphia
 * "Brakes", a 2008 single from the UK band Royworld

Other

 * Brake, ferns of the genus Pteris
 * Brake (sheet metal bending), a tool for bending sheet metal
 * Brake (surname)
 * Brake (charity) a road safety charity