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say it: brayks
brakes is a noun meaning "a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle". It is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪks/ — brayks. It carries one recorded sense.
a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brakes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.