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Brain vs Heart - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between brain and heart

is that 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 while heart is (anatomy) a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

As verbs the difference between brain and heart

is that brain is to dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull while heart is (transitive|poetic|or|humorous) to be fond of often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • (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

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    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

    * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) ----

    heart

    English

    (wikipedia heart)

    Alternative forms

    * (all obsolete)

    Noun

  • (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  • (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
    • The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart .
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • * 2008 , "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The result still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip to face England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win in Bulgaria.}}
  • * Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'' (, '' , 1943)
  • The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense.
    • a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
  • Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  • * Milton
    • Eve, recovering heart , replied.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The expelled nations take heart , and when they fly from one country invade another.
  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  • * Dryden
    • That the spent earth may gather heart again.
  • (obsolete)
  • * Shakespeare
    • I speak to thee, my heart .
  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: or sometimes <3.
  • * 1998 , Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup , page 106:
    • "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  • The centre, essence, or core.
    • The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
    Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 27 , author=Mike Henson , title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air.}}
  • * 1899 , , The Strong Arm , ch. 3:
    • At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.

    Derived terms

    * artichoke heart * at heart * be still my heart * bleeding heart * break someone's heart * by heart * change of heart * cockles of the heart * * congestive heart failure * coronary heart disease * dishearten * eat one's heart out * from the bottom of one's heart * good-hearted * halfhearted * hard-hearted * have one's heart in the right place * heartache * heart attack * heartbeat * heart block * heartbreak * heartbreaker * heart-breaking * heartbroken * heartburn * heart disease * hearten * heart failure * heartfelt * heart-free * heart-healthy * heartland * heartless * heart-lung machine * heart pine * heartrending * heartsease * heartsick * heartsome * heartsore * heart-stopping * heartstring * heartthrob * heart-to-heart * heartwarming * heart-whole * heartwood * heartworm * hearty * heavy heart * home is where the heart is * lose heart * lose one's heart * open-heart/open-heart surgery * pour one's heart out * Purple Heart * put one's heart on one's sleeve * set one's heart on * single-hearted * sweetheart * take heart * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wholehearted

    Descendants

    (desc-top) * Japanese: (desc-mid) * Korean: (desc-bottom)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, poetic, or, humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
  • * 1905 , Capt. James, William Wordsworth (editor), Poems and Extracts ,
    • I heart to pray their bones may rest in peace
  • * 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
    • We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
  • * 2006 , Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
    • I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
  • * 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
    • The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
  • * 2008' July 25, "The Media '''Hearts Obama?", ''On The Media , National Public Radio
  • (obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My cause is hearted ; thine hath no less reason.
  • (masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
  • (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

    • Synonyms

    * (to be fond of) love, less than three

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