transcription, транскрипция: [ breɪn ]
( brains)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body’s activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
Her father died of a brain tumour.
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2.
Your brain is your mind and the way that you think.
Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale...
Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
= mind, intellect
N-COUNT : usu poss N
3.
If someone has brains or a good brain , they have the ability to learn and understand things quickly, to solve problems, and to make good decisions.
I had a good brain and the teachers liked me.
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4.
If someone is the brains behind an idea or an organization, he or she had that idea or makes the important decisions about how that organization is managed. ( INFORMAL )
Mr White was the brains behind the scheme...
Some investigators regarded her as the brains of the gang.
N-COUNT : usu pl , the N behind/of n
5.
If you pick someone’s brains , you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you. ( INFORMAL )
Why should a successful company allow another firm to pick its brains?
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
to rack your brains: see rack