What is the meaning of brake?

noun

  • A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
  • Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
  • Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.
  • An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.
  • Anything that slows or hinders a process.
    • usage: "she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage"; "new legislation will put the brakes on spending"

verb

  • Stop travelling by applying a brake.
    • usage: "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
  • Cause to stop by applying the brakes.
    • usage: "brake the car before you go into a curve"
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