brain

1. (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull
Related Words: kill

2. (verb) hit on the head
Related Words: hit

3. (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
Synonyms: encephalon
Related Words: neural structure

4. (noun) mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit
Related Words: intelligence

5. (noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat
Related Words: calf's brain, organs, variety meat

6. (noun) 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"
Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche
Related Words: cognition, ego, knowledge, noddle, subconscious, subconscious mind, tabula rasa, unconscious, unconscious mind

7. (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Synonyms: genius, mastermind
Related Words: intellect, intellectual, prodigy, wonder child



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