BRAIN

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brain I. substantiv

(anat.) creier; (şi pl.) (fig.) creier, minte, judecată; plural (fam.) aptitudini mintale;

disease of the brain boală de creier, afecţiune a creierului;

to have a tumour on the brain a avea o tumoare la creier;

dish of brains creier (fel de mâncare);

(fam.) to have one's brains on ice a-şi păstra cumpătul / sângele rece, a nu-şi pierde capul;

to have (got) smth. on the brain a nu-i ieşi ceva din cap, a fi obsedat de ceva (de o idee etc.), a se gândi mereu la ceva; la un lucru;

(prov.) an idle brain is the devil's workshop lenea este mama tuturor viciilor;

to make smb. 's brain reel a ului / a zăpăci / a înnebuni pe cineva;

you haven't got a brain in your head! n-ai pic de minte! că multă minte-ţi mai trebuie!

to pick/ to suck smb.'s brains a-şi însuşi ideile altuia;

to beat / to cudgel / to puzzle / to rack / to ransack one's brain(s) a-şi frământa creierii / mintea, a-şi bate capul;

to crack one's brain(s) a se scrânti, a se ţicni, a se sminti;

it is above my brains mă depăşeşte, nu pricep, nu înţeleg;

to soak into one's brain a deveni cu desăvârşire limpede;

(fam.) to use one's brains a se gândi, a judeca, a-şi pune mintea la contribuţie;

to turn smb.'s brains a ameţi, a zăpăci pe cineva; a suci capul cuiva;

to suck / to pick smb.'s brains a) a-i scoate cuiva gărgăunii din cap; b) a plagia pe cineva;

to blow out one's brains a-şi zbura creierii;

man of brains om cu cap.

brain II. verb tranzitiv

a sparge capul (cuiva).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

By reanalyzing the data, the team also found ripple activity in key parts of the patients’ brains.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

I had been drinking hard of late, and the two things together fairly turned my brain.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How could his brain ever master it all?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“Now I have spoken it, and yet I cannot please you. Lack-brain she is, and lack-brain I shall call her.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here was a second uncle, a man of heart and a man of brains, and I liked him better than the first.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strange how the brain controls the brain!

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A brain meningioma that occurs during adulthood.

(Adult Brain Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A medulloblastoma arising from the brain, occurring in adults.

(Adult Brain Medulloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common sites of metastasis are the lungs, bone, and brain.

(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

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