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  1. brain

    Mind, in a general sense, includes all the powers of sentient being apart from the physical factors in bodily faculties and activities; in a limited sense, mind is nearly synonymous with intellect, but includes disposition, or the tendency toward action, as appears in the phrase "to have a mind to work." As the seat of mental activity, brain (colloquially brains) is often used as a synonym for mind, intellect, intelligence. Thought, the act, process, or power of thinking, is often used to denote the thinking faculty, and especially the reason. The instinct of animals is now held by many philosophers to be of the same nature as the intellect of man, but inferior and limited; yet the apparent difference is very great.

    An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction.

    Paley Natural Philosophy ch. 18.

    In this sense we speak of human instincts, thus denoting tendencies independent of reasoning or instruction. The soul includes the intellect, sensibilities, and will; beyond what is expressed by the word mind, the soul denotes especially the moral, the immortal nature; we say of a dead body, the soul (not the mind) has fled. Spirit is used especially in contradistinction from matter; it may in many cases be substituted for soul, but soul has commonly a fuller and more determinate meaning; we can conceive of spirits as having no moral nature; the fairies, elves, and brownies of mythology might be termed spirits, but not souls. In the figurative sense, spirit denotes animation, excitability, perhaps impatience; as, a lad of spirit; he sang with spirit; he replied with spirit. Soul denotes energy and depth of feeling, as when we speak of soulful eyes; or it may denote the very life of anything; as, "the hidden soul of harmony," Milton L'Allegro l. 144. Sense may be an antonym of intellect, as when we speak of the sense of hearing; but sense is used also as denoting clear mental action, good judgment, acumen; as, he is a man of sense, or, he showed good sense; sense, even in its material signification, must be reckoned among the activities of mind, tho dependent on bodily functions; the mind, not the eye, really sees; the mind, not the ear, really hears. Consciousness includes all that a sentient being perceives, knows, thinks, or feels, from whatever source arising and of whatever character, kind, or degree, whether with or without distinct thinking, feeling, or willing; we speak of the consciousness of the brute, of the savage, or of the sage. The intellect is that assemblage of faculties which is concerned with knowledge, as distinguished from emotion and volition. Understanding is the Saxon word of the same general import, but is chiefly used of the reasoning powers; the understanding, which Sir Wm. Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth."

    Synonyms:
    consciousness, disposition, instinct, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, reason, sense, soul, spirit, thought, understanding

    Antonyms:
    body, brawn, brute force, material substance, matter

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  1. brain, encephalonnoun

    that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

    Synonyms:
    head, genius, mastermind, learning ability, psyche, mentality, brainpower, mental capacity, wit, mind, encephalon, brainiac, nous

  2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, witnoun

    mental ability

    "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

    Synonyms:
    wag, mindset, card, brainiac, mind-set, encephalon, learning ability, mental capacity, witticism, genius, brainpower, mastermind, outlook, humor, mind, wittiness, mentality, psyche, nous, humour, wit, head

  3. mind, head, brain, psyche, nousnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    learning ability, idea, thinker, heading, promontory, psyche, school principal, wit, mind, head teacher, brainpower, intellect, nous, question, mental capacity, fountainhead, encephalon, point, head, top dog, mentality, creative thinker, headland, mastermind, brainiac, header, genius, headspring, foreland, pass, chief, headway, judgment, read/write head, judgement, drumhead, head word, forefront, capitulum, oral sex, principal, caput, straits, soul

  4. genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einsteinnoun

    someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

    "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

    Synonyms:
    virtuoso, wizard, star, psyche, brainiac, nous, encephalon, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, flair, wizardry, brainpower, conceiver, learning ability, mastermind, maven, ace, originator, sensation, genius, mind, mental capacity, mentality, hotshot, wiz, wit, adept, brilliance, head, whizz

  5. brainverb

    the brain of certain animals used as meat

    Synonyms:
    head, genius, mastermind, learning ability, psyche, mentality, brainpower, mental capacity, wit, mind, encephalon, brainiac, nous

  6. brainverb

    hit on the head

  7. brainverb

    kill by smashing someone's skull

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  1. cephalo

    Submitted by anonymous on August 20, 2020  

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  1. brainnoun

    Synonyms:
    cerebrum, cerebellum, encephalon

    Associated words:
    cerebrology, encephalology, cerebrate, cerebric, lecithin, excerebration, cephalopathy, encephalitis, apoplexy, cerebral

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "brain":

    cerebral, e-brain, drain, mastermind, mind, leak, head, flight, leakage, skull, exodus

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brain

    Synonyms:
    Cerebrum

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How to use brain in a sentence?

  1. Deontay Wilder:

    I don't have any concerns. I don't let my brain sit back and think about if I don't knock him out or are they going to rob me, or anything like that, i just don't want my mind to be on that when I'm in a fight. I want to have a clear mind. I want to go in there and do what Deontay is capable of doing.

  2. Daniel Levitin:

    We're using music to better understand brain function in general.

  3. Senate GOP:

    New York spends $ 1 billion on college financial assistance. There is a brain-drain problem.

  4. Red White Bethune:

    I’m tired. I’m worn out. I am exhausted. I am drained emotionally and physically, my brain is mush. My phone has been attached to the charger so much, I feel reminiscent of the corded phones I grew up with. I think I’ve consumed like 30 calories in the last 36 hours. Coffee counts, right?

  5. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

    I've learned a lot from him. He is somebody who is a deep thinker. He's somebody with a big heart, but also a big brain, and for me to be able to count on a friend who has lived through many of the things that I'm about to encounter on the political stage, on the international stage, it's a great comfort to me.


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