Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain .
brains trust
a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
beat one's brains
to try hard to remember , understand , or solve something
rack one's brains
to strain in mental effort , esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
rack your brains
to think very hard about something or try very hard to remember it. The old-fashioned spelling ` wrack ' is occasionally used instead of ` rack ' in this expression.
brain up
to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
pea-brain
a person lacking intelligence
cudgel one's brains
to think hard about a problem
pick someone's brains
to ask someone for advice or information, because they know more about a subject than you do
left brain
the left hemisphere of the human brain , which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking , decision-making , and language
blow one's brains out
to kill oneself by shooting oneself in the head
to rack your brains
If you rack your brains , you try very hard to think of something.
split brain
a brain in which the tracts connecting the two halves of the cerebral cortex have been surgically split or are missing from birth
beat someone's brains out
to kill by knocking severely about the head
blow someone's brains out
To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.
to pick someone's brains
If you pick someone's brains , you ask them to help you with a problem because they know more about the subject than you.
electronic brain
an electronic computer
water on the brain
accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain because its normal outlet has been blocked by congenital malformation or disease. In infancy it usually results in great enlargement of the head
rack one's brain to rack your brains
If you rack your brains , you try very hard to think of something.
softening of the brain
an abnormal softening of the tissues of the cerebrum characterized by various degrees of mental impairment
to beat someone's brains out bash someone's brains out
To beat someone's brains out or bash their brains in means to hit their head very hard, so that they are badly injured or killed .
hydrocephalus
accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain because its normal outlet has been blocked by congenital malformation or disease. In infancy it usually results in great enlargement of the head