Brake (disambiguation)
# 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

## Arts

### 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
