brain
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
hit on the head
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
mental ability
he's got plenty of brains but no common sense
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
kill by smashing someone's skull
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
his mind wandered
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 6 noun
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Mozart was a child genius
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
the brain of certain animals used as meat
Types & categories
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brain |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brain |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | central nervous system |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | head |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | circle of Willis |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | communicating artery |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | brain cell |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | neencephalon |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | forebrain |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | midbrain |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | hindbrain |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | brainstem |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | ventricle |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | neural structure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | brain |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hit |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | brainy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mental |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mental |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | intelligence |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | brain |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bear in mind |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | psychic |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | cognition |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | noddle |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | tabula rasa |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | ego |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | unconscious mind |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | subconscious mind |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | brainy |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | intellectual |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | prodigy |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | variety meat |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | calf's brain |