[breɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity
(e.g: a brain tumour)

- intellectual capacity
(e.g: I didn't have enough brains for the sciences)


Phrases:
- beat someone's brains out
- have something on the brain

Origin:
Old English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein

[breɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- hit (someone) hard on the head with an object
(e.g: she brained me with a rolling pin)


Phrases:
- beat someone's brains out
- have something on the brain

Origin:
Old English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein