brake has definitions from the fields of transportation,botany
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[ noun ] (transportation) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index_finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor .

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[ noun ] (botany) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

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fern Pteris

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[ noun ] (botany) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

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fern Pteridium

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[ verb ] cause to stop by applying the brakes

Examples

"brake the car before you go into a curve"

Related terms

stop skid driving

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[ verb ] stop travelling by applying a brake

Examples

"We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

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stop driving

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 5756
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[ noun ] (botany) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

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brush

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