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Meaning of brake

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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