The difference between Brake and Stop
When used as nouns, brake means a fern, whereas stop means a (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
When used as verbs, brake means to bruise and crush, whereas stop means to cease moving.
Stop is also adverb with the meaning: prone to halting or hesitation.
Stop is also adjective with the meaning: being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
check bellow for the other definitions of Brake and Stop
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Brake as a noun:
A fern; bracken.
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Brake as a noun:
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
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Brake as a noun:
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
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Brake as a noun:
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
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Brake as a noun:
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
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Brake as a verb (transitive):
To bruise and crush; to knead
Examples:
"The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough"
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Brake as a verb (transitive):
To pulverise with a harrow
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Brake as a noun (military):
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. The winch of a crossbow.
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Brake as a noun (chiefly, _, nautical):
The handle of a pump.
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Brake as a noun (engineering):
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
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Brake as a noun:
A baker's kneading trough.
Examples:
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Brake as a noun:
A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.
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Brake as a noun:
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
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Brake as a verb (intransitive):
To operate (a) brake(s).
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Brake as a verb (intransitive):
To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
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Brake as a noun (obsolete):
A cage.
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Brake as a noun (now, _, historical):
A type of torture instrument.
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Brake as a verb (archaic):
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To cease moving.
Examples:
"I stopped at the traffic lights."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To not continue.
Examples:
"The riots stopped when police moved in."
"Soon the rain will stop."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
Examples:
"The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."
"This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to come to an end.
Examples:
"The referees stopped the fight."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To close or block an opening.
Examples:
"He stopped the wound with gauze."
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Stop as a verb (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down"):
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
Examples:
"To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
Examples:
"to stop with a friend"
"He stopped for two weeks at the inn."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To tarry.
Examples:
"He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."
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Stop as a verb (music):
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
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Stop as a verb (obsolete):
To punctuate.
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Stop as a verb (nautical):
To make fast; to stopper.
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Stop as a noun:
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
Examples:
"synonyms: halt station"
"They agreed to see each other at the bus stop."
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Stop as a noun:
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
Examples:
"That stop was not planned."
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Stop as a noun:
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
Examples:
"usex door stop"
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Stop as a noun (linguistics):
A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
Examples:
"synonyms: plosive occlusive"
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Stop as a noun:
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
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Stop as a noun:
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
Examples:
"[[pull out all the stops Pull out all the stops]]."
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Stop as a noun (music):
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
Examples:
"The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled."
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Stop as a noun (tennis):
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
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Stop as a noun (zoology):
The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones.
Examples:
"The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked."
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Stop as a noun (photography):
An f-stop.
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Stop as a noun (engineering):
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
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Stop as a noun (architecture):
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
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Stop as a noun:
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
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Stop as an adverb:
Prone to halting or hesitation.
Examples:
"He’s stop still."
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Stop as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
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Stop as an adjective (physics):
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
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