| 单词 | brain-stuff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrain-stuff brain-stuff n. (a) medicine or food for the brain; (b) the product of thinking; ideas. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] thoughtOE thingOE conceita1393 imagea1393 concept1479 conception1526 suppositiona1529 idee1542 idea1585 conceivement1599 project1600 representationa1602 notion1607 phantasma1620 conceptus1643 species1644 notice1654 revolution1675 representamen1677 vorstellung1807 brain-stuff1855 ideation1876 think1886 artefact1923 construct1933 mind1966 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the head > for the brain brain-stuff1855 1855 R. R. Madden Literary Life & Corr. Countess of Blessington II. 543 It follows that the novel-reading public are satisfied with these brain-stuffs of their hard-worked author. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. i. 26 A great modern writer..groaned over his puppetry, that he dared not animate them..with the fires of positive brain-stuff. 1911 W. Owen Let. 21 Nov. (1967) 97 The borrowed-brainstuff which I imbibed to help me through the Exam.—Sanatogen. 1933 H. G. Wells Shape of Things to Come v. § 8. 426 The abundant release of brain-stuff, the mental plenty which has resulted from the organization of material plenty. 1948 E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 9 Nov. (1959) 352 Ethel Smyth..used his brainstuff as a libretto for her cantata. 1984 W. Lycan in B. K. Matilal & J. L. Shaw Anal. Philos. in Compar. Perspective (1985) 89 Thoughts are representors in the brain, made of brain stuff; bits of language are representors out in the open air, made of sound waves or ink marks. < as lemmas |
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