Brain can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| brain - kill by smashing someone's skull | ||
| brain - hit on the head | ||
Noun |
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| brain - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | ||
| brain - mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" | ||
| brain - the brain of certain animals used as meat | ||
| brain - 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" | ||
| brain - someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" |
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| 1. | noun | (And, a piece of shrapnel in the forearm that caused only a minor wound would have killed had it hit an eye and gone into the brain; the shrapnel being in your body demonstrates you were in mortal danger and didn't absent yourself from it. | |
| 2. | noun | Kindly young men, but utterly programmed and brain-dead. | |
| 3. | noun | Yes, but this time it is his carotid artery - the one that transports blood to the brain. | |
| 4. | noun | I really need to engage brain before articulating! | |
| 5. | noun | Some months later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's bruises. | |
| 6. | noun | When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins. | |
| 7. | noun | There are days where I feel like my brain wants to abandon me. | |
| 8. | noun | The brain is just a complicated machine. | |
| 9. | noun | Students discussed the problem of brain death for a long time. | |
| 10. | noun | Indeed, some writers do not think the relation of brain to consciousness is a causal relation in the first place. | |
| 11. | noun | Exercise is to the body what thinking is to the brain. | |
| 12. | noun | Most important of all, the brain needs global reentry pathways connecting these anatomical structures. | |
| 13. | noun | If the brain is dead, we should let the patient die. | |
| 14. | noun | Doctor Burns, what should doctors do when a patient's brain is badly damaged? | |
| 15. | noun | Ted's really got computers on the brain. |
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| (And, a piece of shrapnel in the forearm that caused only a minor wound would have killed had it hit an eye and gone into the brain; the shrapnel being in your body demonstrates you were in mortal danger and didn't absent yourself from it. |
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| Kindly young men, but utterly programmed and brain-dead. |
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| Yes, but this time it is his carotid artery - the one that transports blood to the brain. |
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| I really need to engage brain before articulating! |
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| Some months later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's bruises. |
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| When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins. | |
| There are days where I feel like my brain wants to abandon me. | |
| The brain is just a complicated machine. | |
| Students discussed the problem of brain death for a long time. | |
| Indeed, some writers do not think the relation of brain to consciousness is a causal relation in the first place. | |
| Exercise is to the body what thinking is to the brain. | |
| Most important of all, the brain needs global reentry pathways connecting these anatomical structures. | |
| If the brain is dead, we should let the patient die. | |
| Doctor Burns, what should doctors do when a patient's brain is badly damaged? | |
| Ted's really got computers on the brain. | |