brake

Definitions of brake in various dictionaries:

noun - a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

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

noun - large coarse fern often several feet high

noun - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

noun - anything that slows or hinders a process

verb - stop travelling by applying a brake

verb - cause to stop by applying the brakes

A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.

Often used to modify another noun : brake fluid; a brake job.

To operate or apply a brake.

To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.

A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.

A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.

An apparatus for kneading large amounts of dough.

A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.

To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.

To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.

A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.

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

Any of certain other ferns, such as the bracken or the cliff brake.

An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.

A past tense of break.

verb - to slow down or stop

BRAKE - A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wh...