Brain

Brain [breɪn]
Noun
Similar to: Nerve
== Origin ==
#Old German: Bræginen
#Old English: Brægen
#Dutch: Brein
#Then: Brain
== Meanings ==
#An organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
##The substance of an animal's brain used as food.
##[Informal] An electronic device with functions comparable to those of the human brain.
#Intellectual capacity.
##[Informal] A clever person who supplies the ideas and plans for a group of people.
##A person's mind.
#To hit someone hard on the head with an object.
== Examples ==
#A brain tumor.
#An electronic brain.
#I didn't have enough brains for the sciences.
#Tom was the brains of the outfit.
#A tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain.
#She brained me with a rolling pin.
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