Tra từ brain - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

brain [brain brains brained braining] noun, verb BrE [breɪn] NAmE [breɪn]
noun

IN HEAD
1. countable the organ inside the head that controls movement, thought, memory and feeling
•damage to the brain
•brain cells
• She died of a brain tumour.
•a device to measure brain activity during sleep

FOOD
2. brainsplural the brain of an animal, eaten as food
•sheep's brains

INTELLIGENCE
3. uncountable, countable, usually plural the ability to learn quickly and think about things in a logical and intelligent way
• It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.
• Teachers spotted that he had a good brain at an early age.
•You need brains as well as brawn (= intelligence as well as strength) to do this job.
see also ↑no-brainer

INTELLIGENT PERSON
4. countable, usually plural (informal)an intelligent person
•one of the best scientific brains in the country
5. the brainssingular the most intelligent person in a particular group; the person who is responsible for thinking of and organizing sth
•He's always been the brains of the family.
•The band's drummer is the brains behind their latest venture.
more at beat your brains out at ↑beat _v., blow your/sb's brains out at ↑blow _v., cudgel your brains at ↑cudgel _v., pick sb's brains at ↑pick _v., rack your brains at ↑rack _v.

Word Origin:
Old English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein.

Thesaurus:
brain noun C
1.
•The scan showed no damage to the brain.
mind • • head • • subconscious •
the human brain/mind
deep in the brain/your mind/your subconscious
2. U, C, usually pl.
•She must have inherited her mother's brains.
intelligence • • intellect • • wits • • mind • • genius • |AmE, informal smarts •
(a) great brain/intelligence/intellect/mind/genius
have a … brain/intelligence/intellect/…wits/a … mind/genius/smarts
use your brain/intelligence/wits/mind/smarts

Example Bank:
•He had a brain scan to search for possible damage.
•He has sex on the brain= thinks about nothing but sex.
•He put a gun to his head and threatened to blow his brains out.
•He was found to have a blood clot on his brain.
•He was the brains behind the robberies.
•He's got football on the brain.
•His brain reeled as he realized the implication of his dismissal.
•I need to pick your brains: what can you tell me about credit unions?
•It's important to keep your brain ticking over.
•My tired brain couldn't cope with such a complex problem.
•She has a good brain for mathematics.
•The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body.
•The stopping distance includes the time taken for the brain to register the need to stop.
•They relied on brains rather than brawn.
•We racked our brains but we couldn't come up with a solution.
•While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out.
•Electrodes were used to measure brain activity during sleep.
•Fruit eating primates have relatively larger brains than those that eat leaves.
•Jack's got the brain to realize that the money won't last forever.
•She must have inherited her mother's brains.
•She's always been the brains of the family.
•Teachers spotted early on that he had a good brain.
•The band's drummer is the brains behind their latest venture.
•The scan apparently showed no damage to the brain.
•We have the best scientific brains in the country working on this.
•You need brains as well as brawn to do this job.
Idiom: ↑have something on the brain

verb ~ sb/sth/yourself (informal)
to kill a person or an animal by hitting them very hard on the head
• I nearly brained myself on that low beam.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein.