different between thinker vs brain

English

Etymology

From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think +? -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

thinker (plural thinkers)

1. One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
2. An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "thinker": creative, deep, critical, great, strategic, original, political, clear, social, brilliant, logical, liberal, conservative, influential, lateral, radical, religious, profound, abstract.

Derived terms

• deep thinker

Translations

Anagrams

• rethink

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