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UK
/bɹˈeɪn/
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[ US /ˈbɹeɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪn/ ]
NOUN
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someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
he's smart but he's no Einstein
Mozart was a child genius - the brain of certain animals used as meat
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mental ability
he's got plenty of brains but no common sense - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
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that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
his mind wandered
I couldn't get his words out of my head
VERB
- hit on the head
- kill by smashing someone's skull
How To Use brain In A Sentence
- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
- This crossword will really tax your brain.
- I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
- For a diagnosis of brain stem death irremediable structural brain damage should be present.
- Surgeons grafted tissue from her leg to the outside of her brain for protection.
- The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
- Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
- The voluntary muscles are regulated by the parts of the brain known as the cerebral motor cortex and the cerebellum.
- Calcification of a part of the brain known as the falx cerebri Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
- Even if the knock is not severe enough to cause the skull to fracture, the brain bangs against the skull and can be damaged.