brakes
b rayks
- n a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
- n a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- n any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- n large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- n an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- n 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 stop travelling by applying a brake
- v cause to stop by applying the brakes
- This thing has no brakes.
- Most bike hand brakes and gears are produced overseas, and until the manufacturers catch up with back orders there will be a brake on further expansion.
- If the new brakes hold up (and earlier liquid-cooled brakes never have), Cunningham may be able to spring a major surprise on the Jaguars, Lancias and others at Le Mans.