Search Result:brake
KK Pronunciation
〔 brєk 〕
Pronunciation
〔 brєik 〕
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")