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| Shopping | The largest selection of BRAIN products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | brain, encephalon | That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers |
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| 2 | brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit | Mental ability | |
| 3 | brain, mind, head, psyche, nous | That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings | |
| 4 | brain, genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein | Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | |
| 5 | brain | The brain of certain animals used as meat | |
| VERB | 1 | brain | Hit on the head |
| 2 | brain | Kill by smashing someone's skull |
| Sounds | brey'n |
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| Rhymes | abstain, again, airplane, and 116 more rhymes in eyn... |
| Meaning | That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers. Enclosed within the skull. Continuous with the spinal cord. |
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| Synonyms | encephalon |
| Part of | central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale; head, caput |
| Parts | circle of Willis; communicating artery, arteria communicans; brain cell; neencephalon, neoencephalon; forebrain, prosencephalon; midbrain, mesencephalon; hindbrain, rhombencephalon; brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem; ventricle |
| Broader | neural structure |
| Adjectives | cerebrovascular; cerebrospinal |
| Verbs | brain; brain |
| Meaning | Mental ability. |
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| Examples | "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" |
| Synonyms | brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
| Broader | intelligence |
| Adjectives | brainy; brainy |
| Meaning | That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings. The seat of the faculty of reason. |
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| Synonyms | mind, head, psyche, nous |
| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
| Narrower | noddle; tabula rasa; ego; unconscious mind, unconscious; subconscious mind, subconscious |
| Meaning | Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality. |
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| Synonyms | genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein |
| Broader | intellectual, intellect |
| Narrower | prodigy |
| Adjectives | brainy; brainy |
| Meaning | The brain of certain animals used as meat. |
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| Broader | variety meat, organs |
| Narrower | calf's brain |
| Meaning | Hit on the head. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | The fighter managed to brain his opponent |
| Broader | hit |
| Nouns | brain |
| Meaning | Kill by smashing someone's skull. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | kill |
| Nouns | brain |
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