Brainwash vs Brainstorm - What's the difference?
brainwash | brainstorm |
An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.
To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis)
(figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
(US) A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
brainstorming
(British) An unexpected mental error.
*2005, "Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night",
To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
To participate in a brainstorming session.
As nouns the difference between brainwash and brainstorm
is that brainwash is an effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas while brainstorm is a sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.As verbs the difference between brainwash and brainstorm
is that brainwash is to affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis while brainstorm is to investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.brainwash
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(en noun)- I had been working on the problem for weeks, and then I had a brainstorm and saw that the solution was easy.
BBC Online, 5 October
- A terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. [...] Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm . Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at first and third bases.
