brake pad

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noun

a thin block of friction-producing material that presses against a vehicle's brake disc or rotor to enable the wheel to stop.

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Words nearby brake pad

brake fluid, brake horsepower, brake light, brake lining, brakeman, brake pad, brake parachute, brake pedal, braker, brake shoe, brakesman

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How to use brake pad in a sentence

If you’ve worn entirely through the vertical wear-indicator grooves on your rim brake pads, you need new ones.
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Friction resistance systems work much in the same way that a vehicle brake pad functions, with varying degrees of resistance directly correlating to the amount of pressure the pad applies to the flywheel.
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Johnson Welded Products Ohio-based manufacturer of reservoirs for air brake systems.
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Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.
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He described in painful detail the composition of the bars and the heavy shackles on the pad locks.
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He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.
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Would you like to come over and see my new pad this weekend?
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They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives.
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If he is injured while running a car from a defective brake of which he had knowledge, he cannot recover.
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Her mother, wearing an ink-stained jacket, was busy at her desk, the pen scratching on the big sheets of pad paper.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
Bobby said it should have been written on yellow paper with an asbestos pad under it to save scorching Miss Pendletons desk.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
Margaret Halley stared reflectively at the blotting-pad for a moment, and then described a typical seance at Kazmah's.
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British Dictionary definitions for brake pad

brake pad

noun

the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake

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