brake

noun

1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Definition categories: man–made, constraint, restraint

2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

Definition categories: plant, fern

3. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Similar word(s): bracken

Definition categories: plant, fern

4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

Definition categories: group, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket

5. anything that slows or hinders a process

- she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage

- new legislation will put the brakes on spending

Definition categories: man–made, constraint, restraint

verb

1. stop travelling by applying a brake

- We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road

Definition categories: motion, halt, stop

2. cause to stop by applying the brakes

- brake the car before you go into a curve

Definition categories: motion, stop