Brake - Definition
brake
n 1: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
2: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately
compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
3: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed
ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake,
brake, Pteridium aquilinum]
4: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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"
v 1: stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake
suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
2: cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before
you go into a curve"