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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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"