BRAINS

"BRAINS" is a plural of: brain.

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

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	BRAINS. If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BRAINS	English	Behaviour Replication by Analog(ue)Instruction of the Nervous System	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imagination	Set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate; brainstorm.
Inquiry	Require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the pulse.
Intellect	Phrase: ens rationis; frons est animi janua; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; mens sola loco non exulat; " my mind is my kingdom "; " stern men with empires in their brains "; " the mind, the music breathing from her face "; " thou living ray of intellectual Fire ".
	Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand.
Intelligence Wisdom	Head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle-glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk.
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.
	Die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
Thought	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.
Uncertainty	Not know what to make of; (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Your brains out. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Brains stick with brains. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract. (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo) Oh, you must be the brains of the operation. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) And then you blew your brains out. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)
Lyrics	Your outta ya brains, thinkin I'ma shout out ya name (#1; performing artist: Nelly) Loud enough to bust your brains out (UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT; performing artist: Rolling Stones)
Movie/TV Titles	Brains & Brawn (1958) The Brains Trust (1955) Scrambled Brains (1951) Paramount Pacemaker: Brains Can Be Beautiful (1947) More Mice Than Brains (1925)
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Domain	Title
Books	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature (reference) Softswitches: The Brains Behind the Brawn [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Lysine, Tryptophan and Other Amino Acids: Food for Our Brains, Maintenance for Our Bodies (reference) Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (reference) Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms, and Cultures (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Muhammad Ali (Skill, Brains & Guts/In His Own Words) (reference) Legends of the Ring - Muhammad Ali - Skill, Brains & Guts (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Bach for Babies: Fun and Games for Budding Brains (reference) Rats Brains & Microchips (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Calves' Heads and Brains; or a, Phrenological Lecture. / J. Lump delt. L. Bump sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Pogo]. When I got a job with the Hare here doin' wood peckin', the constant rappin' on trees shook up my brains so I'd of made a rattlin' good Congersman .. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Alice Hubbard	Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.
Benjamin Franklin	There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
	Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Fuller	Beard was never the true standard of brains.
Michelangelo	A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Robert Louis Stevenson	For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Thomas Fuller	The Mob has many heads, but no Brains.
William Shakespeare	O God, that any one should put an enemy in their mouth to steal away their brains.
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Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	For his part, Fauchelevent was racking his brains.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The people, moving in from the highways, made them with their tents and their hearts and their brains.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The drugs literally change their brains. (references)
		We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. (references)
		Sometimes people appear to have seizures, even though their brains show no seizure activity. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. Alexander Poke
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Michael Chertoff	That's correct. And a lot of people consider him to be the kind of brains or the philosopher behind bin Laden's organization. He is a physician, he's from Egypt, he is someone who has been a radical terrorist for a long period of time.
Rush Limbaugh	I'm just standing up for common sense and brains, because I do not allow myself to get trapped by emotions.
Trisha Meili	I don't think so. I don't think so. So, well, I'll answer your question, but also it's just amazing to me what the brains absorbs and not.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	I know it will be better for my children because my hands, my brains, my voice, and my vote can help make it happen.
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"BRAINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "BRAINS" is used about 915 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	99.78%	913	7,858
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.11%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	0.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	915	N/A

Expressions using "BRAINS": beat one's brains ♦ beat out smb.'s brains ♦ blow one's brains out ♦ blow out one's brains ♦ brains trust ♦ cudgel one's brains ♦ have one's brains on ice ♦ he has brains ♦ muddle one's brains ♦ pick smb.'s brains ♦ puzzle one's brains ♦ rack one's brains ♦ rack one's brains over ♦ suck the brains of ♦ To cudgel one's brains ♦ To rack one's brains ♦ to rack one's brains out ♦ use one's brains. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "BRAINS": brains-trust, brains-with-burnt-butter-salad.
	Ending with "BRAINS": abacus-for-brains, b-b-b-brains, bessie-brains, bubble-brains, feather-brains, muscle-brains, scatter-brains.
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Language		Translations for "BRAINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		person më i zoti, mend (ballast, brain, esprit, headpiece, imagination, intention, memory, mind, nous, reason, savvy, wit), intelekt (head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, mind, nous). (various references)

Arabic		‏عقل (intellect, intelligence, layer, mentality, mind, pate, picket, psyche, reason, sense, skull, steady, wit), ‏شديد الذكاء (apt), ‏دماغ (bean, brain). (various references)

Bulgarian		напрягам си ума (rack one's brains), блъскам си главата (rack one's brains). (various references)

Chinese		腦筋 (head, mind, way of thinking), 腦子 (mind), � �腦 (mind). (various references)

Czech		tahat z koho rozumu (pick smb.'s brains), lámat si hlavu (cudgel one's brains). (various references)

Danish		hjerner. (various references)

Dutch		zich het hoofd breken (puzzle over, rack one's brains), piekeren (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references)

Esperanto		cerbumi (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references)

Faeroese		brýggja høvur (puzzle over, rack one's brains), hugsa djúpt (meditate, puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself), grunda (meditate, puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself). (various references)

Finnish		äly (acumen, astuteness, intelligence, wit). (various references)

French		cervelle (brain). (various references)

German		Hirne, Gehirne. (various references)

Greek		ρωτώ κάποιο για να πάρω ιδέες (pick soneone's brains), βασανίζω το μυαλό μου (beat one's brains). (various references)

Hebrew		מוח (brain, grey matter, mastermind), שכל (grey matter, insight, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, savvy, sense, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Hungarian		agyvelõ. (various references)

Icelandic		velta fyrir sér (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references)

Indonesian		gembong (kingpin, leader, prominent figure). (various references)

Italian		mente (esprit, mastermind, mentality, mind, nous, spirit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脳味噌 , 首脳 (head), � �脳 (head, intellect), 知能 (intelligence), 知力 (intellectual power, mental capacity, wisdom), 智嚢 (wits). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ずのう (head, intellect), しゅのう (head, leading spirit), のうみそ, ちのう (intelligence, mental powers, wits), ちりょく (fertility, intellectual power, intelligence, mental capacity, mental powers, wisdom). (various references)

Manx		enneeyn. (various references)

Norwegian		gruble (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references)

Pig Latin		ainsbray

Portuguese		miolos (brain). (various references)

Romanian		glagore (nous, pate), gând (anticipation, anxiety, conceit, conviction, idea, imagination, intent, recollection, scheme, thinking, thought, wish), doxã (brain-stuff, gumption), creier (brain), cap (bean, beginning, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding). (various references)

Russian		мозговой трест (brain trust, Brains Trust), ломать себе голову (rack one's brains, rack wits), ломать голову (puzzle over, rack one's brains), последующий ум (further brains). (various references)

Scottish		eanchaill , eanchainn. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lupati glavu nečim (rack one's brains), imati mozga (have brains). (various references)

Spanish		sesos (pate). (various references)

Swedish		förstånd (comprehension, intellect, intelligence, judiciousness, lights, reason, sense, understanding). (various references)

Thai		คิ�"หนักเกี่ยวกับ (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references)

Turkish		beyin (brain, cerebral, cerebrum, encephalic, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, loaf, mastermind, sensorium), zekâ (acuity, acumen, acuteness, brain, cleverness, cuteness, deepness, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, mental, mentality, nous, penetration, quick wit, sagacity, sapience, senses, understanding, wit), kafa (bean, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BRAINS": brainsick, brainsickly, brainstorm, brainstormed, brainstormer, brainstormers, brainstorming, brainstormings, brainstorms. (additional references)
	Words ending with "BRAINS": betweenbrains, birdbrains, crackbrains, endbrains, featherbrains, forebrains, hindbrains, lamebrains, midbrains, rattlebrains, scatterbrains. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"BRAINS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bairns, barina, Barisna, bavins, bhain, biranese, Bormanis, braaang, bragin, Braginsky, brahims, braiis, braine, brais, Bralin, branas, Branig, brans, brauns, bravine, Braynes, brein, brian, Brians, Briansk, Brianza, brins, Burians, bwain, byains, irians, jberians. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "BRAINS" (pronounced brā"nz)
4	-r ā" n z	constrains, cranes, drains, grains, rains, refrains, reigns, reins, restrains, sprains, strains, trains.
3	-ā" n z	attains, banes, campaigns, canes, chains, champagnes, complains, contains, disdains, domains, entertains, explains, gains, Janes, lanes, mains, maintains, manes, obtains, pains, panes, pertains, plains, planes, regains, remains, retains, stains, sustains, terrains, vanes, veins, wanes.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: bairns.
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-r-s"
	-1 letter: abris, airns, bairn, barns, basin, brain, brans, brins, nabis, naris, rains, ranis, sabin, sabir, sarin.
	-2 letters: abri, ains, airn, airs, anis, arbs, bani, bans, barn, bars, bias, bins, bran, bras, brin, bris, isba, nabs, nibs, rain, rani, rias, ribs, rins, sain, sari, snib.
	-3 letters: abs, ain, air, ais, ani, arb, ars, ban, bar.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-r-s"
	+1 letter: brisant, rabbins, ribands, sabring.
	+2 letters: abrasion, bairnish, banisher, banister, bargains, barniest, baronies, bartisan, bearings, bearskin, binaries, bracings, brainish, braising, brandies, brandish, brasilin, brassing, brigands, brisance, carabins, carbines, corbinas, inboards, minibars, misbrand, rabbonis, rainbows, ribbands, rinsable, sabering, searobin, taborins, unbraids, urbanise, urbanism, urbanist, vibrants.
	+3 letters: abhenries, abortions, abrasions, absorbing, abstainer, adsorbing, amberinas, arabinose, ascribing, bacterins, banishers, banisters, bannister, barbicans, baritones, bartisans, bartizans, baseliner, beaneries, bearskins, bigaroons, bilanders, blinkards, boardings, braconids, braidings, braincase, brainiacs, brainiest, brainless, brainpans, brainsick, brainwash, branniest, brantails, brasilins, braunites, brawniest, brazilins, breakings, breasting, brisances, carabines, carbinols, cinnabars, endbrains, fibrannes, hairbands, hangbirds, insurable, ironbarks, marblings, midbrains, misbrands, nailbrush, ninebarks, obtainers, panbroils, rabbinism, rabidness, rainbands, rainbirds, ramblings, reobtains, ringbarks, searobins, signboard, snakebird, submarine, taborines, tribesman, tribunals, turbinals, urbanised, urbanises, urbanisms, urbanists, urbanites, urbanizes, vibrances, wristband.
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BRAINS

Specialty Definition: BRAINS

Slang in 1811

Abbreviations & Acronyms: BRAINS

BRAINS

Synonyms within Context: BRAINS

Imagination

Inquiry

Intellect

Intelligence Wisdom

Killing

Thought

Uncertainty

Crosswords: BRAINS

Modern Usage: BRAINS

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: BRAINS

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: BRAINS

Familiar Quotations: BRAINS

Alice Hubbard

Benjamin Franklin

Fuller

Michelangelo

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Thomas Fuller

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: BRAINS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: BRAINS

Health

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: BRAINS

Michael Chertoff

Rush Limbaugh

Trisha Meili

Speeches: BRAINS

Gerald Ford

Usage Frequency: BRAINS

Expressions: BRAINS

Modern Translation: BRAINS

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