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say it: brayk
brake is a noun and verb meaning "a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
stop travelling by applying a brake
“We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”
driving
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.