different between brain vs obex

English

Etymology

From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræ?n (“brain”), from Proto-Germanic *bragn? (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mreg?nom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mreg?- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *men- (“mind, to think”). Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek ??????? (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?n, IPA^(key): /b?e?n/
• Homophone: brane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

brain (plural brains)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: harns; see also Thesaurus:brain
2. (informal) An intelligent person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genius

   1. (plural only) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.

3. (in the plural) Intellect.
   • 2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8:

     "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.

   1. (in the singular) An intellectual or mental capacity.

4. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

5. (slang, vulgar) Oral sex.
   • 2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It

     You said I got brain from your dame in the range

     In the passing lane

     But you really ain't got no proof

6. (informal, slang) Mind.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe ^{(Category: en:Brain)}

Verb

brain (third-person singular simple present brains, present participle braining, simple past and past participle brained)

1. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
2. (transitive, slang) To strike (someone) on the head.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To destroy; to put an end to.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To conceive in the mind; to understand.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:brain.

Translations

Further reading

• brain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barin, Brian, Rabin, abrin, bairn, brian

Irish

Noun

brain m

1. inflection of bran:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

brain

1. Alternative form of brayn

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• broin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bran?/

Noun

brain m

1. inflection of bran:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brai?n/

Noun

brain m pl

1. plural of brân

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Latin obex (“barrier, wall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?ks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?ks/

Noun

obex (plural obices)

1. (anatomy) A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle.

References

• “obex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “obex”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From obici? (“to throw or put before or towards”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?.beks/, [?o?b?ks?] or IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [??b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [???b?ks]

In Classical Latin, the forms of this word built on the oblique stem obic- may have originally been pronounced with an unwritten /j/ sound, making the first syllable of the word /ob/ (which contains the short vowel /o/ and scans as a heavy syllable because of the coda consonant /b/). For example, in Attic Nights 4.17, Aulus Gellius indicates that the learned grammarian Sulpicius Apollinaris read obicibus with a short o and a doubled ("gemina") letter i where it occurs in Vergil's Georgics with heavy-light-light-heavy scansion; this implies a pronunciation /ob.ji.ki.bus/. The same situation of a single letter I potentially representing a sequence of the consonant /j/ and short vowel /i/ is found with the verb obici? and a number of other prefixed verbs derived from iaci?.

Gellius criticizes as ignorant those who pronounce obici?bat and subices with long vowels (i.e. /o?/ and /u?/) for the sake of the meter, a comment which implies that pronunciations with /ob.ji/ and /sub.ji/ were not universally used for derivatives of iacio during the second century, and may have been simplified in normal speech to /o.bi/ and /su.bi/ for for many speakers of that time.

There is less evidence about the Classical Latin pronunciation of the nominative singular form obex as the word was rarely used in this form.

Noun

??bex m or f (genitive ??bicis); third declension

1. bolt, bar; barrier, wall
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica, 2.1

     unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant / obicibus ruptis rursus que in se ipsa residant

2. hindrance, impediment, obstacle

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• obici?

Descendants

• English: obex
• Portuguese: óbice
• Spanish: óbice

References

• obex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• obex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin