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Meanings of brainbox in English

An intelligent person.

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        Examples for "brain"
        Examples for "brain"
        1
        The brain and the body in general are instruments of the soul.
        Bergson and His Philosophy
        2
        He in whose brain the most ideas are born accomplishes the most.
        A Hero of Our Time
        3
        We cannot cut in the genital organs without cutting in the brain.
        Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
        4
        To the bosom it is love; to the brain it is enthusiasm.
        The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — ...
        5
        The changes in the brain affect mainly the large and small brain.
        The Whence and the Whither of Man / A Brief History of His Origi...
        1
        This means there are many different types of genius, even in animals.
        Wired
        2
        The genius of really great Italian pasta recipes is often just that.
        Independent.ie
        3
        The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius.
        The Fountains of Paradise
        4
        Another teacher in London said, We feel the term genius is appropriate.
        The panic zone
        5
        Even in Shakespeare the springs of genius were not in the mind.
        The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
        1
        Of course, no one has found Einstein to be wrong just yet.
        BBC
        2
        This Einstein refuses to accept, although he knows the facts perfectly well.
        Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
        3
        At that point, young Einstein reasoned, the light wave would appear frozen.
        Wired
        4
        The findings published on Monday help confirm Einstein's theory, said the researchers.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous example of a lateral thinker.
        Jamaica Observer
        1
        I went down another: the case of global criminal mastermind Paul LeRoux.
        Wired
        2
        Barak helped mastermind the two biggest Israeli military operations in recent years.
        The new yorker
        3
        But without its legal mastermind, he began to lose large cases, and
        The President's Assassin
        4
        I think she's the mastermind behind the return of Merlin, in fact.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        5
        No more than a front man, no doubt; certainly not the mastermind.
        Complete Books of Blood
        1
        It was nice to know that one of us was a brainiac.
        Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
        2
        How did such a brainiac land her own cable news show?
        Ebony
        3
        He is a rare combination of brainiac financial quant and British surfer dude.
        Somewhere inside
        4
        You have to understand, I was kind of quiet, a brainiac.
        Lone Wolf
        5
        I saw Annabeth playing trivia games and other brainiac stuff.
        The Lightning Thief
        Usage of brainbox in English
        1
        The resident brainbox of British dance is always questing for new territory.
        The Guardian
        2
        A brainbox, then, are you? She fixed me with a narrow-eyed stare.
        Another life altogether: a novel
        3
        Because, frankly, I'm not sure you can fit more than one idea and a half in that brainbox of yours.
        The Burning Dark
        4
        It doesn't take a brainbox to see that Kate Emily must have a chance in a two-mile handicap on the Saturday.
        The Irish Times
        5
        He published his discoveries in The Starry Messenger and the Pope declared him a brainbox and a party was thrown in his honour.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than Gen. Thomas J. Jackson.
        A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
        7
        The BBC's gently teasing brainbox Evan Davis asked minister David Willetts whether the plan amounted to the hope that all government policies would work well.
        The Guardian
        8
        'No, but what do you think in that great big whirling brainbox of yours?
        Kalooki Nights
        9
        'For not having a brainbox the size of his?'
        Kalooki Nights
        Brainbox through the time