How to pronounce “brain”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (informal) Mind.
• (in the plural) Intellect.
• (informal) An intelligent person.
• By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
• (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Oral sex.
• A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
• (transitive) To strike (someone) on the head.
• (transitive, figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.
• (transitive, obsolete) To conceive in the mind; to understand.
• (intransitive, nonstandard, humorous) To think effectively.

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