Brain

Definition: Brain

Brain

Noun

1. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord.

2. Mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense".

3. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head".

4. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality.

5. The brain of certain animals used as meat.

Verb

1. Hit on the head.

2. Kill by smashing someone's skull.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BRAIN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Brain

Caprice

Verb: be capricious; Adjective: have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.

Imagination

Conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies"; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.

Impotence

Helplessness; Adjective: prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy.

Insanity

Render mad, drive mad; Adjective: madden, dementate, addle the wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head; drive one nuts.

Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm.

Intellect

Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull,

Killing

Shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.

Thought

Noun: thought; exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application; (attention).

Rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work.

Crosswords: Brain

Don't let your brain interfere with your heart (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.)

I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

I was the only guy who disagreed with the cops - and I had brain damage (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

Who'da thought Selina had a brain to damage (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

You need a brain and I need legs, and the Wizard of Oz doesn't live in South Cincinatti (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.)

It's in your brain, you already hot (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

And nothing else has been on my brain (Yes!; performing artist: Chad Brock)

My brain is flaming (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Brain contemplatin, clean out the register (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Body By Nautilus; Brain By Mattel. (references; author: unknown)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (references; author: unknown)

Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever. (references; author: unknown)

Digital Wisdom: Affirm brain online before opening mouth.com. (references; author: unknown)

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. (references; author: unknown)

Twisted Brain (1974)

Brain of Blood (1972)

They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Brain Washday (1967)

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References

• Business Brain Showa Ota Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Digit Brain Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Brain And Spinal Cord Tumors (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Brain, Brawn, and Will: The Turmoils and Adventures of Jeff Ross (reference)

• Money Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create (reference)

• Brain and Bannister's Clinical Neurology (Oxford Medical Publications) (reference)

• Bob Barlow's Book of Brain Boosters! (Grades 4-8) (reference)

• Mird Head & Brain Dosimetry: Absorbed Fractions of Energy & Absorbed Dose Per Unit Cumulated Activity Within Pediatric & Adult Head & Brain Models fo (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Brain Behavior & Immunity (reference)

• Brain Child (reference)

• Brain Exchange - Audio Cassette (reference)

• Brain Impairment (reference)

• Brain Injury Association Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Brainy Baby - Left Brain DVD (reference)

• Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy (reference)

• Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die (reference)

• Pinky & the Brain: A Pinky & the Brain Christmas (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones (reference)

• Build Your Baby's Brain 1 (reference)

• Journey Through a Burning Brain [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Monster Brain (reference)

• Ultimate Brain Games (reference)

• Panasonic RQSW99V Brain Shaker Extreme Portable Stereo (Silver/Blue) (reference)

• Panasonic RQSW99VK Brain Shaker Extreme Personal Stereo (Black/Red) (reference)

• Brain Quest 2nd Grade (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lectrix 0112 Intelliblend Blender with a Brain, Black (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

These pictures are electron micrographs of macrophages in the brain before and after in vitro infection by HIV-I. The pictures with the uniform cells are normal. The ones with spaced out neoplastic cells are infected. When the cells are infected with HIV-I, clusters are formed. Credit: Dr. Suzanne Gartner (photographer).

PET scan on an 11-year-old boy with hemophilia and AIDS. Before treatment subject was confused and somnolent. These symptoms were resolved with AZT therapy. The increase in green and red areas after treatment denotes a rise in glucose metabolism, indicating an improvement in brain function. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Gross pathology of fixed, cut brain showing hemorrhagic meningitis due to inhalation anthrax. Credit: CDC.

Naegleria gruberi in amebic meningoencephalitis. Parasite, ameba, brain. Credit: CDC.

NASA Robot Brain Surgeon. Credit: NASA.

New Ensigns helping calibrate the radar The tinfoil both helps reflect the radar and protect brain from radar pulses On the NOAA Ship WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A brain coral scarred by the ship grounding. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Yellow-headed wrasse hover over brain coral. Halichoeres garnoti. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Brain corals are an important reef building species throughout the tropics. Diploria sp. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Brain coral and sea fan close-up. 1987 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Photo Contest entry. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What a thinking brain you have

When he, with racked and whirling brain, Feebly implored her to explain, She simply said it all again

Her sick brain accounted for nothing, only she was sure that he had come for her.

The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage

Sometimes I think the flutter in her heart is really in her brain.

A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.

Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them

Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided

While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine

Fear! The crack that might flood your brain with light

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Toxins in the blood or brain. (references)

Snyder, S.H. Drugs and the Brain. (references)

Neuron -- a nerve cell in the brain. (references)

Business

The reason cited by most of them is the huge demand of IT professionals in the west and so there is a lot of brain drain form Pakistan. (references)

Children

New Zealand

In July 2000, a toddler was killed, and a second child suffered brain damage, as a result of abuse by family members. (references)

Indonesia

In 2000 UNICEF estimated that 8 million preschool-age children were undernourished, which threatens the development of brain function. (references)

Economic History

Jamaica

Brain drain is a major concern for the future of Jamaican labor. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

The victim sustained brain damage and other serious injuries during the incident. (references)

Brazil

De Souza suffered brain hemorrhages and had bruising to the eyes, the thorax, and the kidneys. (references)

Kazakhstan

Human rights monitors reported that the boy's parents and a doctor who examined the boy's body found evidence of brain trauma, burns, and cuts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Beginning with "brain": brain-acting, brain-air, brain-based, brain-bending, brain-boggler, brain-bones, brain-box, brain-boxes, brain-bruisingly, brain-case, brain-cell, brain-cells, brain-child, brain-cortex, brain-covers, brain-crushing, brain-damaged, brain-damaging, brain-dead, brain-death, brain-derived, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, brain-drain, brain-drain', brain-ectomy, brain-fag, brain-fatigue, brain-fever, brain-food, brain-frying, brain-hampered, brain-injured, brain-injury, brain-just, brain-matter, brain-mind, brain-numbers, brain-numbing, brain-pans, brain-power, brain-processes, brain-related, brain-resonance, brain-sauce, brain-scanner, brain-shrinker, brain-sick, brain-size, brain-snuff, brain-specific, brain-stem, brain-storm, brain-storming, brain-strain, brain-stretching, brain-stuff, brain-surgery, brain-teaser, brain-teasers, brain-teasing, Brain-tree, brain-tumour, brain-tunic, brain-wash, brain-washed, brain-washing, brain-wave, brain-waves, brain-weak, brain-work.

Ending with "brain": heart-brain, mid-brain, right-brain, smell-brain, split-brain.

Containing "brain": blood-brain barrier, left-brain-dominated, split-brain technique.

Afrikaans

brein. (various references)

Albanian

tru (cerebrum, grey matter, head, headpiece, mastermind, pate, savvy), mendje (head, intellect, mentality, mind, reason, sense, wit), mend (ballast, brains, esprit, headpiece, imagination, intention, memory, mind, nous, reason, savvy, wit), kokë e madhe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏مخ (encephalon), ‏ذكاء (brilliance, brilliancy, cleverness, cuteness, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, penetration, quickness, sagacity, savvy, shrewdness, smartness, understanding, wit), ‏شخص شديد الذكاء, ‏دماغ (bean, brains). (various references)

Basque

burumuin. (various references)

Blackfoot

o'p. (various references)

Bulgarian 

умствени възможности, ум (head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, nous, pericranium, wit), мозък (pericranium, sensorium, wetware). (various references)

Catalan

cervell. (various references)

Chamorro

kabesa. (various references)

Chinese 

腦 , 脑子, 大腦 (cerebrum). (various references)

Cornish

ympynyon. (various references)

Czech

mozek (cerebrum, head, intellect). (various references)

Danish

hjerne. (various references)

Dutch

hersens, hersenen, brein. (various references)

Esperanto

cerbo. (various references)

Faeroese

heili. (various references)

Farsi 

فهم (Grasp, Head, Intellect, Intelligence, Mind, Savvy, Understanding, Uptake), مغزکسی رادراوردن , مغز (Kernel, Marrow, Mind, Nucleus, Pate), مخ (Marrow), هوش (Esprit, Intellect, Intelligence, Sagacity, Sense, Understanding, Wit, Witting), کله (Head, Pash, Pate), ذکاوت (Engine, Esprit, Sagacity, Witting), بقتل رساندن (Murder, Slay). (various references)

Finnish

aivot. (various references)

French

cervelle (brains), cerveau (brains). (various references)

Frisian

brein, harsens. (various references)

German

Hirn (brains, head, mind), Gehirn (brains, cerebric, mind), Verstand (head, intellect, intelligence, judgment, meaning, mind, reason, sanities, sanity, savvied, sense, senses, understanded, understanding, wit). (various references)

Greek 

εγκέφαλος (cerebrum). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוח (brains, grey matter, mastermind), לרסק את �"מוח. (various references)

Hungarian

agy (cerebrum, seat of learning, upper story), ész (five wits, head, intellect, mind, nous, reason, savvy, senses, wit). (various references)

Icelandic

heili. (various references)

Indonesian

benak (marrow), otak. (various references)

Irish

inchinn. (various references)

Italian

cervello (cerebric, cerebrum, mind). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

脳髄 , 脳 (memory), ブレーク信号 (blade, blazer, blazer coat, blend, blended whiskey, bleomycin, blow, bracelet, braid, brain trust, brainstorming, bread, break, break signal, breast, breast stroke, breaststroke, breath, brochure, broken, broken English, broken heart, broker, brooch), 大脳 (cerebrum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ブレーン , のうずい, のう (agriculture, farming, function, gift, memory, Noh play, talent), � いのう (cerebrum, large-scalefarming, payment for another, wealthy farmer). (various references)

Korean 

두뇌. (various references)

Malay

otak. (various references)

Manx

inchyn (grey matter, intellect, spirit). (various references)

Maya

dzo'om. (various references)

Mohawk

onònwara. (various references)

Norwegian

hjerne. (various references)

Occitan

cervèl. (various references)

Papago

oag. (various references)

Papiamen

selebro, selebre. (various references)

Pig Latin

ainbray.(various references)

Portuguese

cérebro (cerebrum, mind). (various references)

Romanian

minte (imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit, wits), inteligenţã (brain-sauce, cleverness, comprehension, cuteness, ingenuity, intellect, intelligence, light, smartness, understanding, wit), intelectual (high-brow, intellectual, mental, moral, scholar, spiritual), creier (brains). (various references)

Romansch

tscharvè. (various references)

Romany

godì (to advise). (various references)

Russian 

мозг (marrow, pericranium, wits). (various references)

Scottish

spad (fell, kill, kill on the spot). (various references)

Sepedi

bjoko. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokretač (actuator, impeller, initiator, mover, originator, promoter, starter), pamet (cleverness, head, intellect, mind), nadarenost (talent), mozak (thinker). (various references)

Shona

urozvi. (various references)

Spanish

cerebro (cerebrum, mastermind). (various references)

Sranan

ede tonton. (various references)

Swazi

bú-chophó. (various references)

Swedish

hjärna (deer). (various references)

Tagalog

útak. (various references)

Thai

สติปัญญา (esprit, intellect, mind), สมอง (head), ความฉลา�" (intelligence, sageness, sapience). (various references)

Turkish

beynini patlatmak (beat out smb.'s brains), beyin (brains, cerebral, cerebrum, encephalic, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, loaf, mastermind, sensorium), beyín, zeki kimse (intellect, wit), zekâ (acuity, acumen, acuteness, brains, cleverness, cuteness, deepness, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, mental, mentality, nous, penetration, quick wit, sagacity, sapience, senses, understanding, wit), kafalı kimse, kafa yarmak, dímağ, akil (intelligence, wisdom), akıl (advice, bean, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Turkmen 

beяni. (various references)

Ukrainian

інтелект (intellect, intellection, intelligence, mind, nous), розбити голову, мозок (thinker, wig). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trí lực, não đầu óc, dở g� n luôn luôn nghĩ ngợi về một điều gì, óc (cerebrum, encephalon). (various references)

Welsh

ymennydd. (various references)

Yucatec

ts'o'om. (various references)

cerebellum, cerebrum, excerebret. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "brain": braincase, braincases, brainchild, brainchildren, brained, brainiac, brainiacs, brainier, brainiest, brainily, braininess, braininesses, braining, brainish, brainless, brainlessly, brainlessness, brainlessnesses, brainpan, brainpans, brainpower, brainpowers, brains, brainsick, brainsickly, brainstorm, brainstormed, brainstormer, brainstormers, brainstorming, brainstormings, brainstorms, brainteaser, brainteasers, brainwash, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashers, brainwashes, brainwashing, brainwashings, brainy. (additional references)

Words ending with "brain": betweenbrain, birdbrain, crackbrain, endbrain, featherbrain, forebrain, hindbrain, lamebrain, midbrain, rattlebrain, scatterbrain. (additional references)

Words containing "brain": betweenbrains, birdbrained, birdbrains, crackbrained, crackbrains, endbrains, featherbrained, featherbrains, forebrains, harebrained, hindbrains, lamebrained, lamebrains, midbrains, rattlebrained, rattlebrains, scatterbrained, scatterbrains. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Brain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arain, Arbin, baij, baint, barai, Barani, barbino, barcin, barian, barien, barin, barina, barine, Barisna, Barni, Baroin, Barrani, Bavin, bayn, Beaini, berani, bhain, bjrn, Borrani, braaang, braai, Bradin, bragin, braiis, braik, braine, brair, braiw, braiz, Bralin, brana, brane, Braniak, Branig, Bratin, Bratinka, braun, bravine, brayn, brazin, Breifne, brein, Bria, brian, Brini, Broin, Brolin, Brsadin, Bruijn, burasian, burian, bwain, frain, Ibragim, krain, orain. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bairn.

-1 letter: abri, airn, bani, barn, bran, brin, rain, rani.

-2 letters: ain, air, ani, arb, ban, bar, bin, bra, nab, nib, ran, ria, rib, rin.

-3 letters: ab, ai, an, ar, ba, bi, in, na.

+1 letter: bairns, baring, binary, brains, brainy, rabbin, riband.

+2 letters: bairnly, barbing, barding, barfing, bargain, barging, barking, barnier, barring, bearing, birdman, blaring, bracing, brained, braking, braving, braying, brazing, brigand, brisant, carabin, carbine, corbina, garbing, inboard, minibar, rabbins, rabboni, rainbow, ribands, ribband, sabring, taborin, unbraid, vibrant.

+3 letters: abjuring, aborning, aborting, abortion, abrading, abrasion, airborne, airbound, amberina, bacterin, bairnish, banditry, banisher, banister, barbican, bargains, baritone, barniest, barnlike, baronial, baronies, bartisan, bartizan, baryonic, bearding, bearings, bearskin, beraking, berating, bewaring, bigaroon, bilander, bilinear, binaries, binaural, blearing, blinkard, boarding, borating, bracings, braconid, bradding, bragging, braiding, brailing, brainiac, brainier, brainily, braining, brainish, brainpan, braising, branchia, brandied, brandies, branding, brandish, brannier, branning, brantail, brasilin, brassing, braunite, bravoing, brawling, brawnier, brawnily, brazilin, breading, breaking, breaming, brigands, brisance, bronchia, carabine, carabins, carbines, carbinol, carbonic, cinnabar, corbinas, crabbing, debonair, drabbing, endbrain, fibranne, garbling, grabbing, hairband, hangbird, hibernal, inarable, inboards, inurbane, ironbark, laboring, manubria, marbling, midbrain, minibars, misbrand, ninebark, obtainer, panbroil, rabbinic, rabbling, rabbonis, rainband, rainbird, rainbows, rambling, rebating, reobtain, ribbands, ringbark, rinsable, ruinable, rumbaing, sabering, searobin, tabering, taborine, taboring, taborins, tribunal, turbinal, unbraids, urbanise, urbanism, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity, urbanize, vibrance, vibrancy, vibrants, warbling.