Search Result:brakes




Overview of noun brakes

The noun brakes has 1 sense


  • brake system, brakes -- (a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle)


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")