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Noun brake has 4 senses
- 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 light
--1 has particulars: | | hydraulic brake, hydraulic brakes; 1 of 4 senses of brake ; brake; airbrake; brake system, brakes; coaster brake; hand brake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake; brake system, brakes; hydraulic brake, hydraulic brakes; 1 of 4 senses of brake ; brake; airbrake; brake system, brakes; coaster brake; hand brake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake |
- 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
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