Definition of brakes

The noun brakes has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

(a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle)

The noun brake has 5 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

(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")

The verb brake has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

(stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road")

(cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve")