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English to English noun
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a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |  | source: wordnet30
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any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | | source: wordnet30
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large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | | source: wordnet30
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an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | | source: wordnet30
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anything that slows or hinders a process | | Example: she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage
new legislation will put the brakes on spending
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A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. | | source: webster1913
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An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. | | source: webster1913 verb
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stop travelling by applying a brake | | Example: We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
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cause to stop by applying the brakes | | Example: brake the car before you go into a curve
source: wordnet30
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