- brake - a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
--1 is a kind of brake; restraint, constraint; brake; restraint, constraint
--1 is a part of
--1 has parts: brake band; stoplight, brake lightmotor vehicle, automotive vehicle; 1 of 4 senses of brake ; brake; wheeled vehicle; brake system, brakes; motor vehicle, automotive vehicle; 1 of 4 senses of brake ; brake; wheeled vehicle
--1 has particulars:Derived forms: verb brake1, verb brake2 - brake - any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
--2 is a kind of fern; fern
--2 is a member of Pteris, genus Pteris- bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
--3 is a kind of fern; fern
--3 is a member of Pteridium, genus Pteridium- brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
--4 is a kind of brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket; brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
- bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- brake - stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
--1 is one way to stop, halt
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun brake1
These cars won't brake
- brake - cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
--2 is one way to stop
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun brake1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something