brakes

Meanings

Noun

• a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
• a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
• any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
• large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
• an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• 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"
• plural of brake

Verb

• stop travelling by applying a brake
• cause to stop by applying the brakes
• third-person singular simple present indicative of brake

Synonyms

bracken, brake, brake system, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum