Brain-teaser

Definition

brain /breÇn/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ဦးေႏွာက္။ a disease of the brain ❍ The brain is the centre of the nervous system. ❍ suffer brain damage ❍ brain surgery ❍ a brain cell. (ခ) brains [pl] တိရစၧာန္ဦးေႏွာက္ ဟင္းလ်ာ။ calves' brains. ၂။ [U, C often pl ] ဉာဏ္။ ဦးေႏွာက္။ He hasn't got much brain. ❍ She has an excellent brain. ❍ You need brains to become a university professor. ❍ He has one of the best brains in the college. ၃။ (က) [C] ( infml ) လူေတာ္။ He is one of the leading brains in the country. (ခ) the brains [sing v ] ( infml ) (အုပ္စုတစ္ခုတြင္) ဉာဏ္အသြားဆံုးသူ။ He's the brains of the family. ❍ She was the brains behind the whole scheme. v တစ္ခ်က္တည္းႏွင့္ ဦးေႏွာက္ထြက္ေအာင္ ထုသတ္သည္၊ ေခါင္းထုသတ္သည္။ ( fig infml ) I nearly brained myself on that low beam. ❏ brain dead adj ဦးေႏွာက္ပ်က္စီးမႈ ေဝဒနာခံစားေနရေသာ။ ❏ brain death n [U] ဦးေႏွာက္ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ပ်က္စီးမႈ။ (ဤအေျခမ်ဳိးဆိုက္သူသည္ ႏွလံုးခုန္စက္မကူဘဲ အသက္မ႐ႉႏိုင္။ ႏွလံုးခုန္ေနေသးသည့္တိုင္ သမားေတာ္တို႔က အသက္ကုန္ၿပီဟု ယူဆၾကသည္။ ) ❏ brain drain n (usu sing ) ( infml ) (အသိပညာရွင္၊ အတတ္ပညာရွင္မ်ား မိမိႏိုင္ငံကိုစြန္႔ခြာၿပီး တိုင္းတစ္ပါးတြင္ သြားေရာက္ေနထိုင္ လုပ္ကိုင္မႈေၾကာင့္) ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ ပညာရွင္ ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ။ ဦးေႏွာက္ယိုစီးမႈ။ ❏ brainless adj ဦးေႏွာက္မရိွေသာ။ That was a pretty brainless thing to do. ❏ brains trust ( US brain trust ) n [Gp] (အစိုးရ၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း၊ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္ဦးခ်င္းစသည္တို႔၏ ေမးျမန္းခ်က္မ်ားကို ေျဖၾကား၍ အႀကံဉာဏ္ေပးသည့္) ဉာဏ္ႀကီးရွင္မ်ားအဖြဲ႕။ ❏ brain-teaser n ခက္ခဲေသာပုစၧာ။ ဦးေႏွာက္စားေသာ ျပႆနာ။ ❏ brainy adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( infml ) ဉာဏ္သြားေသာ။ ဉာဏ္ ထက္ေသာ။ Her children are all very brainy. ❏ have sth on the brain [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ ထား၍မရဘဲ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး ေခါင္းထဲမွာ ေတြးေနသည္။ I've had this tune on the brain all day but I can't remember what it's called.

Examples

1. The human brain is divided into two halves.
2. The illness had affected his brain.
3. A brain tumour/scan/operation
4. Brain activity/function
5. She felt that she could almost see his brain working.
6. You have to use your brains in this job.
7. [have brains/a brain] : He’s good-looking
8. and he’s got brains.
9. The best brains in the country have failed to solve this problem.
10. It's James
11. he has a brain the size of a planet!