Overview of noun brake

The noun brake has 5 senses

• brake -- (a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle)


• brake -- (any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants)


• bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum -- (large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan)


• brake -- (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)


• brake -- (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")

Overview of verb brake

The verb brake has 2 senses

• brake -- (stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road")


• brake -- (cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve")