brain
1. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers;
enclosed within the skull;
continuous with the spinal cord (Freq. 22)
• Syn:
encephalon
• Hypernyms:
neural structure
• Part Holonyms:
head, caput, central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
• Part Meronyms:
circle of Willis, communicating artery, arteria communicans, brain cell, neencephalon,
neoencephalon, forebrain, prosencephalon, midbrain, mesencephalon, hindbrain,
rhombencephalon, brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem, ventricle
2. mental ability (Freq. 5)
- he's got plenty of brains but no common sense
• Syn:
brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit
• Derivationally related forms:
mental (for: mentality), brainy
• Hypernyms:
intelligence
3. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings;
the seat of the faculty of reason (Freq. 5)
- his mind wandered
- I couldn't get his words out of my head
• Syn:
mind, head, psyche, nous
• Derivationally related forms:
psychical (for: psyche), psychic (for: psyche), mind (for: mind)
• Hypernyms:
cognition, knowledge, noesis
• Hyponyms:
noddle, tabula rasa, ego, unconscious mind, unconscious,
subconscious mind, subconscious
4. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality (Freq. 3)
- Mozart was a child genius
- he's smart but he's no Einstein
• Syn:
genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein
• Derivationally related forms:
brainy
• Hypernyms:
intellectual, intellect
• Hyponyms:
prodigy
5. the brain of certain animals used as meat
• Hypernyms:
variety meat, organs
• Hyponyms:
calf's brain
1. hit on the head
• Hypernyms:
hit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- The fighter managed to brain his opponent
2. kill by smashing someone's skull
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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