brain

brain /brein/
  • danh từ
    • óc, não
    • đầu óc, trí óc
    • (số nhiều) trí tuệ; trí lực; sự thông minh
    • (từ lóng) máy tính điện tử
    • to crack one's brains
      • dở điên, dở gàn
    • too have something on the brain
      • luôn luôn nghĩ ngợi về một điều gì; bị một điều gì ám ảnh
    • an idle brain is the devil's workshop
      • (tục ngữ) nhàn cư vi bất thiện
    • to make somebody's brain reel
      • làm cho ai choáng váng đầu óc
    • to pick (suck) somebody's brain
      • moi và dùng những ý kiến của ai
    • to rack cudgel, puzzle, beat, ransack) one's brains
      • nặn óc, vắt óc suy nghĩ
    • to turn somebody's brain
      • làm cho đầu óc ai hoa lên
    • làm cho ai đâm ra tự đắc lố bịch
    • ngoại động từ
      • đánh vỡ óc, đánh vỡ đầu (ai)

     bộ óc
     trí tuệ
    Lĩnh vực: toán & tin
     bộ não
  • artificial brain: bộ não nhân tạo
  • electronic brain: bộ não điện tử
  • Lĩnh vực: y học
     não
  • artificial brain: bộ não nhân tạo
  • blood brain barrier: hàng rào máu não
  • brain center: trung tâm não
  • brain death: chết não
  • brain pressure: áp suất não
  • brain sand: cát não
  • brain scan: quét não
  • brain stem: thân não
  • brain vesicle: túi não
  • dropsy of brain: tràn dịch não
  • electronic brain: bộ não điện tử
  • ventricle of the brain: não thất

  • artificial brain
     óc nhân tạo
    brain drain
     vận tải đường máng
    electronic brain
     óc điện tử

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



    brain

    Từ điển Collocation

    brain noun

    1 part of the body

    ADJ. human | left, right The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body.

    BRAIN + NOUN cell, tissue | region | function, process | activity | damage, disease, disorder, failure, haemorrhage, illness, injury, tumour | scan | surgeon, surgery

    PREP. in the/your ~ Doctors tried to reduce the swelling in his brain. | on the/your ~ He was found to have a blood clot on his brain. (figurative) He's got football on the brain (= thinks about nothing but football).

    PHRASES blow your brains out While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out.

    2 ability to think/intelligence

    ADJ. fertile, fine, good, great, quick | muddled, tired My tired brain couldn't cope with such a complex problem. | analytical

    VERB + BRAIN rack We racked our brains but we couldn't come up with a solution. | pick sb's (= ask sb for information because they know more about a subject than you) I need to pick your brains: what can you tell me about credit unions? | take It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.

    BRAIN + VERB function, tick over, work It's important to keep your brain ticking over. | reel His brain reeled as he realized the implication of his dismissal. | register sth The stopping distance includes the time taken for the brain to register the need to stop.

    BRAIN + NOUN power (also brainpower)

    PREP. ~ behind the brains behind the robberies

    PHRASES brains and brawn/brains and not brawn, etc. They relied on brains rather than brawn (= intelligence, not strength). | have a brain for sth She has a good brain for mathematics.


    Từ điển WordNet

      n.

    • that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord; encephalon
    • mental ability; brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit

      he's got plenty of brains but no common sense

    • that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; mind, head, psyche, nous

      his mind wandered

      I couldn't get his words out of my head

    • someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein

      Mozart was a child genius

      he's smart but he's no Einstein

    • the brain of certain animals used as meat

      v.

    • hit on the head
    • kill by smashing someone's skull

    English Slang Dictionary

    to hit on the head:"If you don't tidy your room now, I'll brain you"

    English Idioms Dictionary

    (See what a brain)

    File Extension Dictionary

    Msdev Common Addins File

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    brains|brained|braining
    syn.: Einstein brainiac brainpower encephalon genius head learning ability mastermind mental capacity mentality mind nous psyche wit