Definition: 1. The organ inside the head that controls movement, thought, memory and feeling. 2. Mental ability. 3. An intelligent person. 4. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality. 5. To kill a person or an animal by hitting them very hard on the head.
Use 'brain' in a sentence:
1. Alcohol seemed to have scrambled his brain.
2. Alcohol acts quickly on the brain.
3. Her father died of a brain tumour.
4. Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.
5. I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain.
6. It is often stated that we use only 10 per cent of our brain.
7. She died of a brain tumour.
8. He has sex on the brain.
9. The test records the electrical activity of the brain.
10. We talk of the brain as the locality of thought.
11. Where in the brain do we store information about colours?
12. Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain.
13. Monkeys do not have any kind of protective armour and use their brains to solve problems.
14. They removed a clot from his brain.
15. This acute infection of the brain is almost invariably fatal.
16. The problem is currently taxing the brains of the nation's experts.
17. She is best known for her work on the human brain.
18. Once destroyed, brain cells do not regenerate.
19. The brain accounts for merely three percent of body weight.
20. He suffered severe brain damage after a motorbike accident.
21. The job requires brains.
22. If you had any brains, you'd know what I meant.
23. one of the best scientific brains in the country.
24. The message arrives in your brain in a fraction of a second.
25. There is a small risk of brain damage from the procedure.
26. You need brains as well as brawn to do this job.
27. He's always been the brains of the family.
28. Their brains are scanned so that researchers can monitor the progress of the disease.
29. Being in love must have addled your brain.
30. We do not fully understand how the brain is organized.
31. The band's drummer is the brains behind their latest venture.
32. Brain scans have confirmed that the disease is in remission.
33. Are they any closer to understanding how the brain works?
34. You need brains as well as brawn (= intelligence as well as strength) to do this job.
35. Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.
36. She racked her brains, trying to remember exactly what she had said.
37. Look, this isn't brain surgery we're doing here.
38. Messages from the brain are carried by the central nervous system.
39. No computer can imitate the complex functions of the human brain.
40. A stroke can disrupt the supply of oxygen to the brain.
41. It is now possible to map the different functions of the brain.
42. In some animals it is probably controlled by the brain.
43. A lack of oxygen may inhibit brain development in the unborn child.
44. The patient suffered severe brain trauma.
45. The optic nerve is a part of the brain.
46. A brain scan revealed the blood clot.
47. Its brain is small in relation to its body.
48. The memory of that day was indelibly printed on his brain.
49. The illness is triggered by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
50. The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen.
51. The eye first appears as a cup-shaped outgrowth from the brain.
52. It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.
53. Once you stop using your brain you soon go stale.
54. A brain scan last Friday finally set his mind at rest.
