Definition of "brain" in Englisch

noun

1. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

2. (informal) Mind.

   • I have too much on my brain today.

3. (in the plural) Intellect.

   • "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
   • She has a lot of brains.

4. (informal) An intelligent person.

   • She was a total brain.

5. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

   • The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.

6. (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Oral sex.

7. A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.

verb

1. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

2. (transitive) To strike (someone) on the head.

3. (transitive, figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To conceive in the mind; to understand.

5. (intransitive, nonstandard, humorous) To think effectively.

   • My brain isn't braining right now.