brain
/ˈbɹeɪ̯n/ noun A1- The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull, consisting of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem, which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
- A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
- Mind. · I have too much on my brain today.
- Intellect. · She has a lot of brains.
- An intelligent person. · She was a total brain.
- A person who provides the intelligence required for something. · He is the brains behind the scheme.
- An intellectual or mental capacity. · Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.
- By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations. · The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.
Plural brains
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“No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to the crew, he said, “Bear a hand there, to take in sail!”
“I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains into his head,” she replied.
“It would be as easy as to give the Scarecrow brains.”
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
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