brain

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, informal, uncountable) Mind.
4. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Intellect.
5. (countable, informal, uncountable) An intelligent person.
6. (countable, informal, plural, plural-only, uncountable) An intelligent person.
7. (countable, informal, singular, uncountable) An intelligent person.
8. (countable, uncountable) By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
9. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Oral sex.
10. (countable, uncountable) 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. (figuratively, transitive) To destroy; to put an end to.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive in the mind; to understand.
5. (humorous, intransitive, nonstandard) To think effectively.

Concepts

cerveau

🧠

cervelle

🧠

encéphale

tête

intelligence

raison

cérébral

intellect

mentalité

assomer

bulbe rachidien

cognition

défoncer le crâne à

jugeote

hypothalamus

assommer

ganglion cérébroïde d’insecte

cervelet

connaissance

connaissances

crack

esprit

génie

🧞

Synonymes

mind

intellect

intelligence

head

mentality

brains

encephalon

cerebrum

wit

reason

knowledge

cerebral

Einstein

genius

mastermind

sense

nous

brainiac

brainpower

thick

ability

highbrow

mental capacity

intellectual

psyche

learning ability

skull

💀

marrow

marbles

medulla oblongata

mental

pate

pith

point

pundit

retroflex

saneness

science

shrewdness

smart

sophisticated

tact

talent

testicle

thinking

🤔

wisdom

wits

cephalon

clerisy

electronic brain

Traductions

Gehirn

🧠

cerebro

🧠

cervello

🧠

cérebro

🧠

Hirn

🧠

εγκέφαλος

hersenen

🧠

cervell

🧠

brein

🧠

μυαλό

seso

🧠

beyin

🧠

cerebrum

🧠

mente

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɹeɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: brayn

Hérité de ancien anglais: bræġn

Appartenant à écossais: braine

Appartenant à frison septentrional: brayen

Appartenant à saterlandais: Brainge

Appartenant à frison occidental: brein

Appartenant à néerlandais: brein

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Brägen

Appartenant à allemand: Bregen

Appartenant à grec ancien: βρεχμός

In summary

From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).

Phrases

That recital made my brain implode .

Ce récital a fait imploser mon cerveau.

It's extremely suspicious that there's no information about brains that didn't come from a brain .

Il est extrêmement suspect qu'il n'y ait aucune information sur les cerveaux qui ne proviennent pas d'un cerveau.