Word Finder - brains

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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.

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An intelligent person.

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She was a total brain.

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(in the plural) Intellect.

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She has a lot of brains.

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By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

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The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.

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Oral sex.

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Mind.

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I have too much on my brain today.

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

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To strike (someone) on the head.

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To destroy; to put an end to.

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To conceive in the mind; to understand.

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The substance of a brain as a material or foodstuff.

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The figurative substance of a brain: mental ability, intelligence.

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Sadly, I got my brains from my mom and my looks from the mailman.

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(with 'the') The intelligent person or people in a group: the director, planner, administrator, &c.

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Who's the brains behind this operation?

My read is he just wanted to cause you some grief after you tried to beat his brains out.

As the brains of the vertebrate animals form an ascending scale, more and more approaching man's in their arrangement, the fact here finds its explanation, that lower animals perform mental processes corresponding in their nature to our own, though of generally less power and complexity.

I decided to pick Daniel Brennan's brains on the matter Howie's sister Annie's abduction.

The brains are large, and the intelligence and educability extraordinarily high.

Singapore, for example a supposedly highly authoritarian state has an infinitely better education system for developing creative brains.

I think the only solution is to force the barber to grow a beard to save our brains going into meltdown.

Accompanying the usual bilge about Edwards surrounding himself with the best business brains there is an inevitable piece about United's world domination.

Our brains are continuously bombarded with enormous amounts of information from each of the senses.

In brains affected by PD, proteins that are not broken down properly clump together inside brains affected by PD, proteins that are not broken down properly clump together inside brain cells.

We have already isolated many genes that are expressed more in PD brains than in controls.

Jock (who goes by the name of Percy) has brawn, but little in the way of brains.

One who unlike the dunderheaded Mr Aka is not a complete cretin with the brains of a dead ameba.

Better understanding of how smokers ' brains work could result in improved treatments for tobacco dependence.

These arguments, including what nerves and brains are like, show strongly why it is, why it is so disadvantageous.

For our 7th issue, Black Poppy wanted to pick his brains about his experience of having endocarditis.

Laughter releases endorphins, the chemical in our brains that gives us the ' feel good factor ' .

The Mole evacuates the area and Brains detonates the explosives.

The child's brains were spattered over my leather greatcoat, and my driver had to clean the mess off.

Transplant of embryonic cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients turned into an irredeemable nightmare because the cells grew uncontrollably [17] .

Others in that heat and crush racked their brains to find some thought and hastened to utter it.

While board games and video games are always available, most youth enjoy trying new activities that challenge their bodies and brains.

Perhaps, thought Tom, they were indeed receiving signals that would be indelibly inscribed into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I think it is a release valve that keeps people from blowing their brains out or having nervous breakdowns.

Alcohol causes the effects of the brains neurotransmitter GABA to increase.

Don't be so open-minded your brains will fall out.

The adorable puppy Fune played with the limbs, buried the brains and dug out bullets.

In racking his brains for a suitably crushing retort, he will probably forget what he is doing.

Love makes us feel soppy, and the parasitic memes exploit that soppiness -- living off our big brains and our romantic natures.

For I consider brains far superior to money, in every way.

A particular gene that produces a protein called vasopressin in their brains contributes to these behaviors.

These attributes jarred on the sensitive Ritson, who racked his brains for contumelious epithets such as "stupid and disgusting," "cart-loads of rubbish," &c.; and during the greater part of the 18th and 19th centuries Lydgate's reputation was at its lowest ebb.

But the sight of Tydeus, cleaving open the skull of his dead enemy and sucking out his brains, so disgusted her that she left him to his fate.

Comparison of the brains of vertebrate animals (see Brain) brings into view the immense difference between the small, smooth brain of a fish or bird and the large and convoluted organ in man.

The object of a race is to see who can win it--or at least that is what my excellent brains think.

Any time you can move data storage from brains to hard drives, you get vast improvements in efficiency.

Our brains weren't designed for that, which is completely fine—that's why we build computers.

I know that the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Under a high state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men!

One of the last of the philosophers--Connecticut gave him to the world--he peddled first her wares, afterwards, as he declares, his brains.

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.

Firstly the showed our brain is really a triune brain, that is, three brains in one.

It might seem an obvious truism that our brains have minds of their own - is n't that what brains do, have minds?

Studies of identical twins' brains have found an almost perfect match in brainwave patterns, and this phenomenon could explain why twins appear to have extra-sensory perception when it comes to their sibling.

A processor is the brains of the computer and does all the computations and communications within the laptop.

Whether the cat has just two faces or two brains as well, this sight is one to behold.

The two-faced cat may have three or four eyes, one or two esophagus's leading to the stomach and in at least one suspected case, two brains.

Lil'Bit, a cat with two faces born in Arizona, is thought to have two brains as well.

When you slice into the head, its brains will spill out all over the table.

Each party gathers a set amount of scrappers in a single space to design individual layouts and pick the brains of fellow crafters.

Some people live such tension-filled lives that the stress hormones rarely abate, which takes a tremendous toll on their brains.