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How to pronounce brain in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms head, mind, nous, psyche
Type of noesis, knowledge, cognition
Has types unconscious mind, noddle, subconscious, subconscious mind, ego, tabula rasa, unconscious
Type Words
Synonyms brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit
Type of intelligence
Derivation brainy


he's got plenty of brains but no common sense.
Type Words
Synonyms brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind
Type of intellectual, intellect
Has types prodigy
Derivation brainy
Type Words
Synonyms encephalon
Type of neural structure
Type Words
Type of hit
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Type of kill
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Type of variety meat, organs
Has types calf's brain

Examples of brain

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Tired of hearing your brain is going to be mush by the time you're old and grey?
From the abcnews.go.com
Fox said it could be the ever-present virus itself that causes the brain to age.
From the omaha.com
The traffic signal controller, the brain that operates the signal, was replaced.
From the tennessean.com
Certain areas of the brain of a newborn baby are particularly flexible, however.
From the sciencedaily.com
Plainly, something made its way into his sick brain and sent him after Giffords.
From the kentucky.com
I don't know if that's typical of all nerds, but that's sort of how my brain is.
From the us.cnn.com
Glioma is among the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat of all brain cancers.
From the sciencedaily.com
The MT1 receptor is a membrane protein located in specific regions of the brain.
From the sciencedaily.com
People do fake brain injuries, for reasons both known and unknown to themselves.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
  • Hit on the head
  • Kill by smashing someone's skull
  • Mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
  • Mind: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
  • Genius: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"
  • The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate, and most invertebrate, animals.Shepherd, Neurobiology Some primitive animals such as jellyfish and starfish have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while sponges lack any nervous system at all. ...
  • The brainfuck programming language is an esoteric programming language noted for its extreme minimalism. It is a Turing tarpit, designed to challenge and amuse programmers, and is not suitable for practical use. Its name has been variously bowdlerized. ...
  • The Brain is a fictional character, a supervillain in the and frequent enemy of the Doom Patrol. He is a French mastermind and criminal genius. He is well known because every time he is defeated his robotic body is beheaded only to be fixed mysteriously the next time he appears.