Definitions for brains

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brains brain

Spelling: [breyn]

IPA: /breɪn/

Brains is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in brains (abinrs).

Definitions for brains

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
2. Zoology. (in many invertebrates) a part of the nervous system more or less corresponding to the brain of vertebrates.
3. Sometimes, brains. (used with a plural verb) understanding; intellectual power; intelligence.
4. the brain as the center of thought, understanding, etc.; mind; intellect.
5. brains, Slang. a member of a group who is regarded as its intellectual leader or planner:
6. Informal. a very intelligent or brilliant person.
7. Informal. the controlling or guiding mechanism in a computer, robot, pacemaker, etc. the part of a computer system for coordination or guidance, as of a missile.

Idioms

1. beat one's brains out, Informal. to try very hard to understand and work out a problem, remember something, etc.:
2. have something on the brain, to have an obsession; be occupied with:
3. pick someone's brains, to obtain information by questioning another person rather than by seeking it independently:

verb (used with object)

1. to smash the skull of.
2. Slang. to hit or bang (someone) on the head.

Origin of brains

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bræg(e)n, bregen; cognate with Low German brägen, Dutch brein

Examples for brains

If you read the reactions, she was billed as ‘Beauty and brains.’

But both Lauper and the brains kept on doing new versions over the years.

Even if you had the brains, you ain't got the taste nor the sperrit in you.

Three films about British brains show the trouble of bringing otherworldly intelligence to the big screen.

It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel.

I tell you, it's a mighty good thing we got your brains to depend on.

And found out he is sure to be; he has not the brains to hide a thing!

It takes a man with some of the brains your pa had to make the game pay now.

Even Tony Hogue and his friend, who was a JF Images booking agent, had trouble wrapping their brains around it.

Perhaps, after all, I might have the brains to jest and toss about words and shoot off epigrams.