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Definition of 'brain'English
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-07-19|author= Ian Sample
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|passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
(informal) An intelligent person.
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(UK|plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
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(in the plural) Intellect.
* 2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers , Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8:
- "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
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By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
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oral sex
* 2012 , (Mack Maine) featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It
*:You said I got brain from your dame in the range
*:In the passing lane
*:But you really ain't got no proof
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* beat someone's brains out
* brainbox
* brain bucket
* brain candy
* braincase
* brain cell
* brainchild
* brain coral
* brain cramp
* brain damage
* brain dead
* brain death
* brain disease
* brain disorder
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* brain doctor
* brain drain
* brain fag
* brain farm
* brain fever
* brain fingerprinting
* brain food
* brain freeze
* brainiac
* brainish
* brainless
* brain mushroom
* brainpan
* brainpower
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* brain science
* brainsick
* brain stem / brainstem
* brainstorm
* brain sugar
* brain surgeon
* brain surgery
* brain-teaser
* brain truster
* brain tumor / brain tumour
* brainwash
* brainwave
* brainworker
* brainy
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* forebrain
* left brain
* microbrain
* no-brainer
* on the brain
* organic brain syndrome
* pick someone's brain
* rack one's brain or rack one's brains
* right brain
* split brain
* water on the brain
* yellow brain fungus
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Verb
( en-verb)
To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
(slang) To strike (someone) on the head.
(figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.
* Shakespeare
- There thou mayst brain him.
* Shakespeare
- It was the swift celerity of the death That brained my purpose.
To conceive in the mind; to understand.
* Shakespeare
- 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.
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