Brain - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- mental ability (syn: brainpower, mentality, wit)
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality (syn: genius, mastermind)
- the brain of certain animals used as meat
verb
- kill by smashing someone's skull
Extra examples
Scientists are learning more about how the human brain works.
The left and right sides of the brain have different functions.
The other children always teased him about being such a brain.
The tree limb fell and nearly brained me.
The power of thinking depends upon the brain.
Messages from the brain are carried by the central nervous system.
Emotional responses are a function of the right hemisphere of the brain.
She died of a brain tumour.
If you had any brains, you'd know what I meant.
The job requires brains.
Something's addled your brains (=made you confused).
Come on, use your brain, John.
Some of our best brains are leaving the country to work in the US.
I wanted to brain him.
I am not a brain as you well know.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: brain
he/she/it: brains
present participle: braining
past tense: brained
past participle: brained
singular: brain
plural: brains
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