brake vs stop

brake and stop both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brake	Yes	No	Yes	No
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, stop is a hypernym of brake; that is, stop is a word with a broader meaning than brake:

As verbs, stop is a hypernym of brake; that is, stop is a word with a broader meaning than brake:

Other hypernyms of brake include halt.

brake (noun)	stop (noun)
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle	the act of stopping something
anything that slows or hinders a process	a brief stay in the course of a journey
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant	a restraint that checks the motion of something
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan	an obstruction in a pipe or tube
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants	a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
	(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
	a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the event of something ending
	a spot where something halts or pauses
	the state of inactivity following an interruption

brake (verb)	stop (verb)
cause to stop by applying the brakes	prevent completion
stop travelling by applying a brake	stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
	hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
	seize on its way
	render unsuitable for passage
	come to a halt, stop moving
	cause to end
	interrupt a trip
	stop from happening or developing
	put an end to a state or an activity
	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical