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brake is the dictionary form of braking Definition of brake
brake has definitions from the fields of transportation,botany |
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[ noun ] (transportation) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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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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[ noun ] (botany) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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[ verb ] cause to stop by applying the brakes
Examples "brake the car before you go into a curve" |
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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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[ 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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