Brain vs Banana - What's the difference?

As a noun brain

is 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.

As a verb brain

is to dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

brain

English

Noun

(wikipedia brain) (en noun)

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.

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(informal) An intelligent person.

(UK, plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.

(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.

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

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

Synonyms

* * See also * See also

Derived terms

* beat someone's brains out * brainbox * brain bucket * brain candy * braincase * brain cell * brainchild * brain coral * brain cramp * brain damage * brain dead * brain death * brain disease * brain disorder * brain doctor * brain drain * brain fag * brain farm * brain fever * brain fingerprinting * brain food * brain freeze * brainiac * brainish * brainless * brain mushroom * brainpan * brainpower * brain science * brainsick * brain stem / brainstem * brainstorm * brain sugar * brain surgeon * brain surgery * brain-teaser * brain truster * brain tumor / brain tumour * brainwash * brainwave * brainworker * brainy * forebrain * left brain * microbrain * no-brainer * on the brain * organic brain syndrome * pick someone's brain * rack one's brain or rack one's brains * right brain * split brain * water on the brain * yellow brain fungus

Verb

(en verb)

To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

(slang) To strike (someone) on the head.

(figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.

* Shakespeare

There thou mayst brain him.

* Shakespeare

It was the swift celerity of the death That brained my purpose.

To conceive in the mind; to understand.

* Shakespeare

'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "brain")

Anagrams

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banana

English

(wikipedia banana)

Noun

An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.

The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .

Synonyms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, Twinkie

Antonyms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

Coordinate terms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconut

Derived terms

* banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top banana

Adjective

(-)

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

* 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

* 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

* 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.

[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

Hypernyms

* bunch * hand * ----