Tra từ brake - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
restraint, constraint
• Hyponyms:
brake system, brakes, coaster brake, hand brake, emergency,
emergency brake, parking brake, power brake
• Part Holonyms:
wheeled vehicle
2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
• Hypernyms:
fern
• Member Holonyms:
Pteris, genus Pteris
3. large coarse fern often several feet high;
essentially weed ferns;
cosmopolitan
• Syn:
bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum
• Derivationally related forms:
braky
• Hypernyms:
fern
• Member Holonyms:
Pteridium, genus Pteridium
4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• Derivationally related forms:
braky
• Hypernyms:
brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
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
• Hypernyms:
restraint, constraint

II - verb

1. stop travelling by applying a brake
- We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
• Topics:
driving
• Hypernyms:
stop, halt
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- These cars won't brake
2. cause to stop by applying the brakes
- brake the car before you go into a curve
• Topics:
driving
• Hypernyms:
stop
• Hyponyms:
skid
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something