(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ 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 ~ tumour.
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2.
Your ~ is your mind and the way that you think.
Once you stop using your ~ you soon go stale...
Stretch your ~ with this puzzle.
= mind, intellect
N-COUNT: usu poss N
3.
If someone has ~s or a good ~, they have the ability to learn and understand things quickly, to solve problems, and to make good decisions.
I had a good ~ and the teachers liked me.
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4.
If someone is the ~s 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 ~s behind the scheme...
Some investigators regarded her as the ~s of the gang.
N-COUNT: usu pl, the N behind/of n
5.
If you pick someone’s ~s, 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 ~s?
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
to rack your ~s: see rack