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单词 brainwave
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Definition of brainwave in English:

brainwave

nounˈbreɪnweɪvˈbreɪnˌweɪv
  • 1usually brainwavesAn electrical impulse in the brain.

    there were systematic changes in brainwaves with sleep
    as modifier the machine records brainwave patterns
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While EEG measures brainwaves, three other technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century involve actual images of living brains.
    • At present the suggestion that measuring brainwaves and heartbeat rates could also be achieved was only theoretical, he added.
    • Audience members can become part of an advanced mass EEG system which uses audience brainwaves to control both the music and lighting environment: a truly ‘smart’ building.
    • These filtered brainwaves are then fed back to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on screen, and the participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of their brain activity.
    • Usually, I meditate during sleep, when my brainwaves are at ease.
    • Psychics use their brainwaves to control a desired or destined ability and use it to its full potential.
    • That's one thing the twin researchers don't ask us about, though they ask us about many things - our habits, states of mind, loves, and incomes - and they take our blood and measure our brainwaves and so forth.
    • If I could press a stethoscope to your head and listen to your brainwaves, I imagine they'd sound like a pair of dueling banjoes.
    • My first specific criticism occurred in Chapter One, when the authors describe their own research regarding brainwaves of clients during hypnosis, counseling, or a control situation.
    • EEG aren't just being used for visualizing brainwaves or for entering meditative states while playing video games.
    • Apparently meditation practitioners were able to control their brainwaves better.
    • Festival patrons can put on an EEG helmet, which will reproduce their brainwaves in light and sound.
    • He meets scientists who put his powers to the test, mapping his brainwaves, photographing his aura and testing the power of his mind to influence electronics at a distance.
    • They were then hooked up to electrodes designed to monitor their brainwaves.
    • The loss of blood had caused Hollynn's system to completely shut down, her brainwaves and heartbeat barely evident on the monitors.
    • Though the number of errors made by the two groups did not differ, researchers found that the FTT children's brainwaves were different from those of the control subjects during the time when they had to decide to react or not.
    • They hooked me up to an ambulatory EEG, a recent technology that can record brainwaves for three days and nights.
    • But you're picking up a whole range of different frequencies of electrical activity and people will be familiar with brainwaves, the idea of brainwaves - electrical waves or pulses if you like - alpha waves, beta waves.
    • An individual's capacity for such visual working memory can be predicted by his or her brainwaves, researchers funded by the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health have discovered.
    • Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.
  • 2informal usually in singular A sudden clever idea.

    then he had a brainwave
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After much fruitless searching, I had a brainwave.
    • Brian had the brainwave for the get-together a year ago.
    • What sent me there was a brainwave for a present, so I won't mention the front of the cards I'm buying, but what I have found interesting is the back.
    • Anyway, as she went on and got more and more into it, I had a sudden brainwave.
    • But what the mind airbrushes out of this pretty picture is that thousands of people have had the identical brainwave at the identical time.
    • I was fingering my car keys, wondering if my perverse appetite would last all the way to Tesco's and back, when I had a sudden brainwave.
    • My brainwave was to have the girls ‘build their own’ tarts.
    • Then I had a brainwave - who said that bald isn't beautiful?
    • I have a brainwave and start preparing a PowerPoint presentation.
    • Those words hit Rick like stones, a brainwave and an idea quickly ensued.
    • Frank Robinson, John Pemberton's original partner and book-keeper, had suggested the name Coca-Cola and come up with the brainwave that the two flowing Cs would look good on adverts.
    • It wasn't like I was having a brilliant brainwave though.
    • It is then that the radio mechanic had a brainwave.
    • This morning I had the brainwave to make little boxes for Supergang which we would fill with peppermint creams that we can make next week.
    • One of Stavros' latest brainwaves is something entitled Cineclick, a program devoted to filmmaking and the Internet, which is skedded to air on the Independent Film Channel.
    • This was a wonderfully mysterious occasion and all thanks to the Laois Arts Festival committee who had the brainwave to host a Halloween Party.
    • Proving that everyone has a tale to tell, 2W shows its award-winning series of Digital Stories where people from across Wales turn brainwaves into multimedia reality.
    • If you want to have our collective brainwaves on how to carry on in light of the Situation, this is pretty much the place to get it.
    • His brainwave was to replace the current fixed self-sealing rubber splash curtains, which trap a bullet once it has passed through the target and prevent it ricocheting back up the range, with movable curtains.
    • It was just a bit of a brainwave and I thought, why not?
    Synonyms
    pulse, current, wave
 
 

Definition of brainwave in US English:

brainwave

nounˈbreɪnˌweɪvˈbrānˌwāv
usually brainwaves
  • 1An electrical impulse in the brain.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While EEG measures brainwaves, three other technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century involve actual images of living brains.
    • They were then hooked up to electrodes designed to monitor their brainwaves.
    • They hooked me up to an ambulatory EEG, a recent technology that can record brainwaves for three days and nights.
    • He meets scientists who put his powers to the test, mapping his brainwaves, photographing his aura and testing the power of his mind to influence electronics at a distance.
    • Festival patrons can put on an EEG helmet, which will reproduce their brainwaves in light and sound.
    • Though the number of errors made by the two groups did not differ, researchers found that the FTT children's brainwaves were different from those of the control subjects during the time when they had to decide to react or not.
    • An individual's capacity for such visual working memory can be predicted by his or her brainwaves, researchers funded by the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health have discovered.
    • Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.
    • The loss of blood had caused Hollynn's system to completely shut down, her brainwaves and heartbeat barely evident on the monitors.
    • These filtered brainwaves are then fed back to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on screen, and the participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of their brain activity.
    • But you're picking up a whole range of different frequencies of electrical activity and people will be familiar with brainwaves, the idea of brainwaves - electrical waves or pulses if you like - alpha waves, beta waves.
    • My first specific criticism occurred in Chapter One, when the authors describe their own research regarding brainwaves of clients during hypnosis, counseling, or a control situation.
    • If I could press a stethoscope to your head and listen to your brainwaves, I imagine they'd sound like a pair of dueling banjoes.
    • Psychics use their brainwaves to control a desired or destined ability and use it to its full potential.
    • That's one thing the twin researchers don't ask us about, though they ask us about many things - our habits, states of mind, loves, and incomes - and they take our blood and measure our brainwaves and so forth.
    • At present the suggestion that measuring brainwaves and heartbeat rates could also be achieved was only theoretical, he added.
    • Audience members can become part of an advanced mass EEG system which uses audience brainwaves to control both the music and lighting environment: a truly ‘smart’ building.
    • EEG aren't just being used for visualizing brainwaves or for entering meditative states while playing video games.
    • Apparently meditation practitioners were able to control their brainwaves better.
    • Usually, I meditate during sleep, when my brainwaves are at ease.
    1. 1.1informal usually in singular A sudden clever idea.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is then that the radio mechanic had a brainwave.
      • This morning I had the brainwave to make little boxes for Supergang which we would fill with peppermint creams that we can make next week.
      • But what the mind airbrushes out of this pretty picture is that thousands of people have had the identical brainwave at the identical time.
      • This was a wonderfully mysterious occasion and all thanks to the Laois Arts Festival committee who had the brainwave to host a Halloween Party.
      • I was fingering my car keys, wondering if my perverse appetite would last all the way to Tesco's and back, when I had a sudden brainwave.
      • Frank Robinson, John Pemberton's original partner and book-keeper, had suggested the name Coca-Cola and come up with the brainwave that the two flowing Cs would look good on adverts.
      • What sent me there was a brainwave for a present, so I won't mention the front of the cards I'm buying, but what I have found interesting is the back.
      • After much fruitless searching, I had a brainwave.
      • Brian had the brainwave for the get-together a year ago.
      • My brainwave was to have the girls ‘build their own’ tarts.
      • Proving that everyone has a tale to tell, 2W shows its award-winning series of Digital Stories where people from across Wales turn brainwaves into multimedia reality.
      • Those words hit Rick like stones, a brainwave and an idea quickly ensued.
      • I have a brainwave and start preparing a PowerPoint presentation.
      • Then I had a brainwave - who said that bald isn't beautiful?
      • It was just a bit of a brainwave and I thought, why not?
      • His brainwave was to replace the current fixed self-sealing rubber splash curtains, which trap a bullet once it has passed through the target and prevent it ricocheting back up the range, with movable curtains.
      • If you want to have our collective brainwaves on how to carry on in light of the Situation, this is pretty much the place to get it.
      • Anyway, as she went on and got more and more into it, I had a sudden brainwave.
      • One of Stavros' latest brainwaves is something entitled Cineclick, a program devoted to filmmaking and the Internet, which is skedded to air on the Independent Film Channel.
      • It wasn't like I was having a brilliant brainwave though.
      Synonyms
      pulse, current, wave
 
 
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