Brain vs. Head

Brainnoun

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.

Brainnoun

(informal) An intelligent person.

Brainnoun

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

Brainnoun

(in the plural) Intellect.

Brainnoun

(in the singular) An intellectual or mental capacity.

Brainnoun

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

Brainnoun

oral sex

Brainverb

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

Brainverb

To strike (someone) on the head.

Brainverb

To destroy; to put an end to.

Brainverb

To conceive in the mind; to understand.

Brainnoun

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

Brainnoun

The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

Brainnoun

The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding; as, use your brains.

Brainnoun

The affections; fancy; imagination.

Brainnoun

a very intelligent person.

Brainnoun

the controlling electronic mechanism for a robot, guided missile, computer, or other device exhibiting some degree of self-regulation.

Brainverb

To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains.

Brainverb

To conceive; to understand.

Brainnoun

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

Brainnoun

mental ability;

Brainnoun

that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;

Brainnoun

someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;

Brainnoun

the brain of certain animals used as meat

Brainverb

hit on the head

Brainverb

kill by smashing someone's skull

Brain

A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision.

Headnoun

(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

Headnoun

(people) To do with heads.

Headnoun

(animals) To do with heads.

Headnoun

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

Headnoun

The end of a table.

Headnoun

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

Headnoun

The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

Headnoun

(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

Headnoun

Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

Headnoun

(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

Headnoun

(music) The headstock of a guitar.

Headnoun

(nautical) A leading component.

Headnoun

(British) A headland.

Headnoun

A leader or expert.

Headnoun

The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

Headnoun

Leader; chief; mastermind.

Headnoun

A headmaster or headmistress.

Headnoun

A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

Headnoun

A significant or important part.

Headnoun

A beginning or end, a protuberance.

Headnoun

A component.

Headnoun

Headway; progress.

Headnoun

Topic; subject.

Headnoun

(uncountable) Denouement; crisis.

Headnoun

(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

Headnoun

A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

Headnoun

The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

Headnoun

More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

Headnoun

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

Headnoun

(slang) The glans penis.

Headnoun

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Headnoun

(obsolete) Power; armed force.

Headadjective

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Headadjective

Foremost in rank or importance.

Headadjective

Placed at the top or the front.

Headadjective

Coming from in front.

Headverb

(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)

Headverb

(transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

Headverb

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

Headverb

(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

Headverb

(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

Headverb

(intransitive) To form a head.

Headverb

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

Headverb

To cut off the top of; to lop off.

Headverb

(obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.

Headverb

To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.

Headverb

To set on the head.

Headnoun

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

Headnoun

The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

Headnoun

The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

Headnoun

The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.

Headnoun

The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.

Headnoun

Each one among many; an individual; - often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.

Headnoun

The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.

Headnoun

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

Headnoun

A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.

Headnoun

A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

Headnoun

Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.

Headnoun

Power; armed force.

Headnoun

A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.

Headnoun

An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

Headnoun

A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

Headnoun

The antlers of a deer.

Headnoun

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

Headnoun

Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Headadjective

Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

Headverb

To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.

Headverb

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

Headverb

To behead; to decapitate.

Headverb

To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

Headverb

To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

Headverb

To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

Headverb

To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

Headverb

To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

Headverb

To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

Headnoun

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains;

Headnoun

a single domestic animal;

Headnoun

that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;

Headnoun

a person who is in charge;

Headnoun

the front of a military formation or procession;

Headnoun

the pressure exerted by a fluid;

Headnoun

the top of something;

Headnoun

the source of water from which a stream arises;

Headnoun

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

Headnoun

the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

Headnoun

the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head;

Headnoun

a dense clusters of flowers or foliage;

Headnoun

the educator who has executive authority for a school;

Headnoun

an individual person;

Headnoun

a user of (usually soft) drugs;

Headnoun

a rounded compact mass;

Headnoun

the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container;

Headnoun

the part in the front or nearest the viewer;

Headnoun

a difficult juncture;

Headnoun

forward movement;

Headnoun

a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;

Headnoun

the subject matter at issue;

Headnoun

a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about;

Headnoun

the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint;

Headnoun

that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

Headnoun

(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

Headnoun

(usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head;

Headnoun

the striking part of a tool;

Headnoun

(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

Headnoun

a projection out from one end;

Headnoun

a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

Headnoun

oral-genital stimulation;

Headverb

to go or travel towards;

Headverb

be in charge of;

Headverb

travel in front of; go in advance of others;

Headverb

be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel;

Headverb

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Headverb

take its rise;

Headverb

be in the front of or on top of;

Headverb

form a head or come or grow to a head;

Headverb

remove the head of;

Headnoun

the upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Headnoun

the head regarded as the location of intellect, imagination, and memory

Headnoun

an aptitude for or tolerance of

Headnoun

a headache, especially one resulting from intoxication.

Headnoun

the height or length of a head as a measure

Headnoun

the side of a coin bearing the image of a head (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner)

Headnoun

the antlers of a deer

Headnoun

a thing resembling a head either in form or in relation to a whole.

Headnoun

the cutting, striking, or operational end of a tool, weapon, or mechanism.

Headnoun

the flattened or knobbed end of a nail, pin, screw, or match.

Headnoun

the ornamented top of a pillar or column.

Headnoun

a compact mass of leaves or flowers at the top of a stem, especially a capitulum

Headnoun

the edible leafy part at the top of the stem of such green vegetables as cabbage and lettuce.

Headnoun

the front, forward, or upper part or end of something.

Headnoun

the upper end of a table or bed

Headnoun

the upper horizontal part of a window frame or door frame.

Headnoun

the flat end of a cask or drum.

Headnoun

the front of a queue or procession

Headnoun

the top of a page.

Headnoun

short for headline

Headnoun

the top of a flight of stairs or steps.

Headnoun

the foam on top of a glass of beer, or the cream on the top of milk.

Headnoun

the source of a river or stream.

Headnoun

the end of a lake or inlet at which a river enters.

Headnoun

a promontory

Headnoun

the top of a ship's mast.

Headnoun

the bows of a ship.

Headnoun

short for cylinder head

Headnoun

a person in charge of something; a director or leader

Headnoun

short for headmaster, headmistress, or head teacher

Headnoun

a person considered as a numerical unit

Headnoun

a number of cattle or game as specified

Headnoun

a component in an audio, video, or information system by which information is transferred from an electrical signal to the recording medium, or vice versa.

Headnoun

the part of a record player that holds the playing cartridge and stylus.

Headnoun

short for printhead

Headnoun

a body of water kept at a particular height in order to provide a supply at sufficient pressure

Headnoun

the pressure exerted by a head of water or by a confined body of steam

Headnoun

a toilet on a ship or boat

Headnoun

the word that governs all the other words in a phrase in which it is used, having the same grammatical function as the whole phrase.

Headnoun

a superficial deposit of rock fragments, formed at the edge of an ice sheet by repeated freezing and thawing and then moved downhill.

Headnoun

a group of pheasants

Headadjective

chief; principal

Headverb

be in the leading position on

Headverb

be in charge of

Headverb

give a title or caption to

Headverb

move in a specified direction

Headverb

appear to be moving inevitably towards (something, especially something undesirable)

Headverb

direct or steer in a specified direction

Headverb

shoot or pass (the ball) with the head

Headverb

lop off the upper part or branches of (a plant or tree)

Headverb

(of a lettuce or cabbage) form a head.

Head

The head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste, respectively. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size.