Definitions of brake:

• noun:   a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
• noun:   an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• noun:   any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
• noun:   large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
• verb:   cause to stop by applying the brakes

  Example: "Brake the car before you go into a curve"

• verb:   stop travelling by applying a brake

  Example: "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #5756)