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Brain

/bɹeɪn/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Brain"

noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    An intelligent person.

    "She was a total brain."

  3. 3

    (in the plural) Intellect.

    "She has a lot of brains."

  4. 4

    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."

verb
  1. 1

    To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

  2. 2

    To strike (someone) on the head.

  3. 3

    To destroy; to put an end to.

  4. 4

    To conceive in the mind; to understand.

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