emergency brake

English

Noun

emergency brake (plural emergency brakes)

1. A brake which can be used by passengers in a vehicle to stop in event of an emergency.
   • 2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Brake pipe issue prompted Caledonian Sleeper runaway”, in Rail, page 12:

     At 0725, the driver operated the emergency brakes to no immediate effect. [...] As the train passed through Platform 11 at around 30mph, the train manager realised there was a problem and applied the emergency brake, bringing the train to a stand [...].

2. (automotive, dated) A parking brake.

Translations

type of brake

• Czech: záchranná brzda f
• Danish: nødbremse c
• Dutch: noodrem (nl) m or f
• Estonian: hädapidur
• Finnish: hätäjarru (fi)
• French: signal d’alarme (fr) m
• German: Notbremse (de) f
• Hungarian: vészfék (hu)
• Inari Sami: etikoosân, etikooccâm
• Northern Sami: heahtegoazan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nødbrems m

• Russian: стоп-кран (ru) (stop-kran)
• Skolt Sami: jieʹttvaull
• Swedish: nödbroms (sv) c
• Turkish: imdat freni

See also

• Emergency brake (train) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia