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BRAIN OF

Definition: BRAIN OF

BRAIN OF

1. To make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: BRAIN OF

Etymologies containing "BRAIN OF": CerebellumExcerebrationProtagonsaveloy. (references)

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Modern Usage: BRAIN OF

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Tim, you've got the body of a hippo but the brain of a rabbit; now don't overtax it. (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire)

Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands! (Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Peggy Webling)

You know you've got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. (Horse Feathers; writing credit: Will B. Johnstone; Bert Kalmar)

Movie/TV Titles

Brain of Blood (1972)

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

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Commercial Usage: BRAIN OF

DomainTitle

Books

  • A stereotaxic atlas of the brain of the Cebus monkey (Cebus apella) (reference)

  • The crossbred brain of humanity dreams are the legal way to know the brain (reference)

  • Developmental changes of protein, RNA, DNA, lipid and glycogen in the liver, skeletal muscle, and brain of the piglet : a methodological and experimental study with special reference to protein synthesis (reference)

  • ICRP Publication 49: Developmental Effects of Irradiation on the Brain of the Embryo and Fetus (reference)

  • The brain of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) : a stereotaxic atlas (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: BRAIN OF

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: BRAIN OF

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The image shows a black and white photo of a CAT scan of a human brain of a patient with AIDS. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Diagram comparing the situation of the soul in the brain of civilized man and the Prussian anthropoid. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRAIN OF

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In general, these medications are called "psychoactive" because the drugs affect the brain of a person with autism. (references)

Strokes, heart attacks, and other conditions that deprive the brain of oxygen also can cause epilepsy in some cases. (references)

Daily heavy alcohol intake causes severe defects in development of the body and brain of the fetus, called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. (references)

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

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Expression: BRAIN OF

Expression using "BRAIN OF": to turn the brain of. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRAIN OF

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brain of blood

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BRAIN OF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-n-o-r"

-2 letters: bairn, baron, brain, infra, noria, robin.

-3 letters: abri, airn, bani, barf, barn, boar, bora, born, bran, brin, brio, fain, fair, fano, faro, fiar, fino, firn, foin, fora, forb, info, inro, iron, naif, naoi, noir, nori, obia, rain, rani, roan.

-4 letters: abo, ain, air, ani, arb, arf, ban, bar, bin, bio, boa, bra, bro.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-n-o-r"
 

+2 letters: forebrain.

 

+3 letters: floribunda, forbearing, forebrains, riboflavin.

 

+4 letters: bifurcation, confirmable, fabrication, fimbriation, fingerboard, floribundas, forbiddance, riboflavins.

 

+5 letters: bifurcations, dibenzofuran, fabrications, fiberization, fibrillation, fimbriations, fingerboards, forbiddances, neurofibroma, surfboarding, unforgivable, unprofitable, unprofitably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BRAIN OF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 41 49 4E      4F 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 01001111 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#79 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0041 0049 004E      004F 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

365235434824940

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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