What is the difference between mind and brain?

Brain is a synonym of mind.

As nouns the difference between mind and brain

is that mind is the ability for rational thought while 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 verbs the difference between mind and brain

is that mind is to remember while brain is to dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

mind

English

Noun

(en noun)

The ability for rational thought.

The ability to be aware of things.

The ability to remember things.

The ability to focus the thoughts.

Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

Judgment, opinion, or view.

Desire, inclination, or intention.

A healthy mental state.

*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

(lb) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.

*1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

*:Study gives strength to the mind ; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

*1854 , Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts , p.19:

*:The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.

*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

*:Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.

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Synonyms

* (ability for rational thought) brain, head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit * (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience * (ability to remember things) memory, recollection * (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus * (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker * judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view * desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood * (healthy mental state) sanity * (process of ): cognition, learning

Derived terms

* aftermind * amind * bear in mind * be of one mind * blow someone's mind * breadth of mind * change one's mind * come to mind * foremind * give someone a piece of one's mind * have a mind like a sieve * have a mind of one's own * have in mind * hivemind * in one's right mind * Jedi mind tricks * know one's own mind * lose one's mind * make up one's mind * meeting of the minds * mind's ear * mind's eye * mind-blowing * mindboggling * mindful * mindless * month's mind * of one mind * of two minds * out of one's mind * overmind * philosophy of mind * presence of mind * put someone in mind of * read someone's mind * right-minded * spring to mind * to my mind * top of mind * undermind * year's mind

Verb

(en verb)

(now, regional) To remember.

* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXVII, lines 25-26:

The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.

You should mind your own business.

* Addison

bidding him be a good child, and mind his book

(originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.

I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.

(now, chiefly, North America, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.

* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 84:

‘Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.’

To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.

* Shakespeare

My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.

Would you mind my bag for me?

(chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care ((that)).

Mind you don't knock that glass over.

To be careful about.

* 2005 , Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development , ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:

Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.

(obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.

* Shakespeare

I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

(Beaconsfield)

(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.

* Fuller

He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

* Shakespeare

I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.

Derived terms

* mind one's p's and q's * mind the store

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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.

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* 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

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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.

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