brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brān
ipa: /bɹeɪn/
homophone: brane
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: brains
form: brayne
Etymology: From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).
Senses: examples: text: The Ueynes are ſpred foorth throughout the whole bodie, howbeit from one welhead, that is to ſay from the Liuer: ſo be the Sinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewiſe are the Heartſtrings, howbeit from the Heart.
ref: 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is but Onely One God”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
synonyms: encephalon
harns
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.
ref: 1892, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Asclepiad, London, page 357:
text: What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man. The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113:
synonyms: encephalon
harns
glosses: 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.
A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
examples: text: I have too much on my brain today.
text: And I should tell him all my pain, / ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, / ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state / And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Mind.
examples: text: "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.
ref: 2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8
text: She has a lot of brains.
glosses: Intellect.
examples: text: She was a total brain.
text: Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
synonyms: word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
glosses: An intelligent person.
examples: text: He is the brains behind the scheme.
synonyms: word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
glosses: An intelligent person.
A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
examples: text: Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.
synonyms: word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
glosses: An intelligent person.
An intellectual or mental capacity.
examples: text: The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.
glosses: By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
examples: text: Have you ever popped champagne on a plane, while gettin' some brain?
ref: 2007, “Good Life”, in Graduation, performed by Kanye West ft. T-Pain:
text: You said I got brain from your dame in the range / In the passing lane / But you really ain't got no proof
ref: 2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It:
text: Got your nigga going / Going insane and so do I when he give me brain
ref: 2012, “Boss Ass Bitch”, performed by PTAF:
text: She giving brain / She eat the dick up like some M&Ms
ref: 2018, “Squidrific”, performed by SahBabii:
glosses: Oral sex.
glosses: A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.
Synonyms: word: brain
word: encephalon
word: harns
Hypernyms: word: organ
Meronyms: word: hindbrain
word: midbrain
word: forebrain
word: medulla oblongata
word: pons
word: cerebellum
word: diencephalon
word: prosencephalon
word: mesencephalon
word: metencephalon
word: myelencephalon
word: rhombencephalon
word: telencephalon
word: cerebral hemisphere
word: cerebral cortex
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