Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - brain
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Brain
brain
(brains) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body’s activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain. Her father died of a brain tumour. N-COUNT 2. Your brain is your mind and the way that you think. Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale... Stretch your brain with this puzzle. = mind, intellect N-COUNT: usu poss N 3. If someone has brains or a good brain, they have the ability to learn and understand things quickly, to solve problems, and to make good decisions. I had a good brain and the teachers liked me. N-COUNT 4. If someone is the brains behind an idea or an organization, he or she had that idea or makes the important decisions about how that organization is managed. (INFORMAL) Mr White was the brains behind the scheme... Some investigators regarded her as the brains of the gang. N-COUNT: usu pl, the N behind/of n 5. If you pick someone’s brains, you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you. (INFORMAL) Why should a successful company allow another firm to pick its brains? PHRASE: V inflects 6. to rack your brains: see rack
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English br?gen; akin to Middle Low German bregen ~, and perhaps to Greek brechmos front part of the head Date: before 12th century 1. a. the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system enclosed in the skull and continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum that is composed of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures (as glia) and that integrates sensory information from inside and outside the body in controlling autonomic function (as heartbeat and respiration), in coordinating and directing correlated motor responses, and in the process of learning — compare fore~, hind~, mid~ b. a nervous center in invertebrates comparable in position and function to the vertebrate ~ 2. a. (1) intellect, mind has a clever ~ (2) intellectual endowment ; intelligence — often used in plural plenty of ~s in that family b. (1) a very intelligent or intellectual person (2) the chief planner of an organization or enterprise — usually used in plural she's the ~s behind their success 3. something that performs the functions of a ~; especially an automatic device (as a computer) for control or computation II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to kill by smashing the skull 2. to hit on the head ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation, and of intellectual and nervous activity. 2 (in pl.) the substance of the brain, esp. as food. 3 a a person's intellectual capacity (has a poor brain). b (often in pl.) intelligence; high intellectual capacity (has a brain; has brains). 4 (in pl.; prec. by the) colloq. a the cleverest person in a group. b a person who originates a complex plan or idea (the brains behind the robbery). 5 an electronic device with functions comparable to those of a brain. --v.tr. 1 dash out the brains of. 2 strike hard on the head. Phrases and idioms brain-dead suffering from brain death. brain death irreversible brain damage causing the end of independent respiration, regarded as indicative of death. brain drain colloq. the loss of skilled personnel by emigration. brain fever inflammation of the brain. brain-pan colloq. the skull. brain stem the central trunk of the brain, upon which the cerebrum and cerebellum are set, and which continues downwards to form the spinal cord. brains (US brain) trust a group of experts who give impromptu answers to questions, usu. publicly. brain-teaser (or -twister) colloq. a puzzle or problem. brain trust US a group of expert advisers. on the brain colloq. obsessively in one's thoughts. Etymology: OE br{aelig}gen f. WG ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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сущ. 1) а) общ. мозг disease of the brain — болезнь мозга б) мн., потр. мозги (кушанье) dish of brains — мозги 2) общ. разум, умственные способности, интеллект, рассудок, ум to have smth. on the brain — только и думать о чем-л., помешаться на чем-л. to be in one's right brains — быть в здравом уме to live with one's own brains — жить своим умом to crack one's brain(s) — спятить, свихнуться to cudgel beat, puzzle, rack, drag one's brains about with smth. — ломать себе голову над чем-л. 3) общ., разг. голова, умница (умный человек, способный студент и т. д.) I am not a brain as you well know. — Как ты знаешь, я не слишком способный. See: brain drain 4) общ., разг. полицейский детектив 5) комп., сленг. "мозг", "мозги", компьютер, процессор, машина robot brain — "мозг" робота; машина, управляющая роботом BRAIN 1) разум; интеллект; рассудок 2) ЭВМ – brain drain – brain trust – to beat one's brains about – to pick smb.'s brains BRAIN сущ. электронная вычислительная машина ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1) головной мозг 2) pl интеллект, ум – abdominal brain – end brain – great brain – little brain – smell brain – visceral brain ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. головной мозг disease of the brain —- болезнь мозга to blow out one's brains —- пустить себе пулю в лоб 2. pl. мозги (кушанье) 3. обыкн. pl. разг. рассудок, разум; умственные способности; интеллект, ум powerful brain —- могучий ум use your brains! —- шевели мозгами!, подумай! that's beyond my brain —- это выше моего понимания, это недоступно моему уму 4. (a brain) разг. умник, умница, "голова", мыслящая личность 5. pl. кин. профес. киносценарист, автор литературного сценария 6. профес. электронный мозг (ЭВМ) Id: to crack one's brain(s) —- спятить, свихнуться Id: to cudgel one's brains about (with) smth. —- ломать себе голову над чем-л. Id: to have smth. on the brain —- только и думать о чем-л., увлекаться чем-л., помешаться на чем-л. Id: to make smb.'s brain reel —- поразить (ошеломить) кого-л. Id: to pick (to suck) smb.'s brains —- использовать чужие мысли, присваивать чужие идеи Id: to turn smb.'s brain —- вызывать головокружение у кого-л.; вскружить кому-л. голову Id: to tax one's brain —- поставить перед собой трудную задачу Id: to have one's brains on ice —- сохранять ледяное спокойствие Id: it soaked into his brain —- ему это стало совершенно ясно, это дошло до его сознания Id: an idle brain is the devil's workshop —- лень - мать всех пороков 7. размозжить голову ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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wave noun coll. счастливая мысль, блестящая идея BRAIN teaser noun трудная проблема BRAIN fever noun 1) воспаление мозга 2) болезнь, осложненная мозговыми явлениями BRAIN dead adj. глупый BRAIN 1. noun 1) мозг - disease of the brain - dish of brains 2) рассудок, ум 3) pl.; coll. умственные способности 4) coll. умница, голова 5) coll. электронная вычислительная машина to beat/puzzle/rack ones brains about/with smth. - ломать себе голову над чем-л. to crack ones brain(s) - спятить, свихнуться to have ones brains on ice coll. - сохранять ледяное спокойствие smth. on the brain - неотвязная мысль to have (got) smb., smth. on the brain - неотступно думать о ком-л., чем-л. an idle brain is the devils workshop prov. - праздность ума мать всех пороков to make smb. s brain reel - поразить кого-л. to pick/suck smb. s brains - использовать чужие мысли to turn smb. s brain - а) вскружить кому-л. голову; б) сбить кого-л. с толку 2. v. размозжить голову ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 »ORGAN« the organ inside your head that controls how you think, feel, and move (Messages from the brain are carried by the central nervous system.) 2 »INTELLIGENCE« also brains plural the ability to think clearly and learn quickly (If you had any brains you'd know what I meant.) 3 »PERSON« informal someone who is intelligent, with good ideas and useful skills (Some of our best brains are leaving the country to work in the US.) (- see also brain drain) 4 have sth on the brain informal to be always thinking about something (I've got that song on the brain today.) 5 be the brains behind sth to be the person who thought of and developed a particular plan, system, or organization, especially a successful one 6 brain dead a) in a state where your brain has stopped working properly even though your heart may still be beating b) informal stupid and uninteresting, especially because you live a boring life (If all she does is watch TV all day, no wonder she's brain dead.) 7 pick sb's brains to ask someone a lot of questions about something that they know about (I need to pick your brains about this cashflow forecast.) 8 brain box BrE informal a very intelligent person (- see also bird-brained, harebrained, beat your brains out beat1 (17), rack your brains (s) rack2 (2)) ~2 v spoken to hit someone very hard on the head (I'll brain you if you do that again!) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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network. abbr. Broadband Rural Access Information Network firm name abbr. Berger Research And Information Network ...English abbreviation dictionary
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See: BEAT ONE'S BRAINS OUT, BLOW ONE'S BRAINS OUT, ON THE BRAIN, RACK ONE'S BRAIN, GET ONE'S BRAINS FRIED. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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- O.E. brжgen, from P.Gmc. *bragnam, from PIE base *mregh-m(n)o- "skull, brain." Brainstorm "brilliant idea, mental excitement" is 1849; verb is from 1920s; brainsick (1483) meant "mad, addled." Brainwashing is 1950, a literal translation of Chinese xi nao. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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